Learning to Love Yourself by Nancy Weshkoff

LEARNING TO LOVE YOURSELF

By Nancy Weshkoff

It makes me incredibly sad when a student at the studio starts to describe herself with negative imagery: “I’m too fat”, “I’m not flexible”, “my hips are too big”, “I don’t like my midsection”, “I have wrinkles”, etc.  

Sadly we are being deluged by the media that shows “perfect” bodies in magazines and billboards. Do you know that many of those “perfect” body images have been altered before publication to give the model a smaller waist, longer legs, no wrinkles, etc.?

We need to LOVE OURSELVES.   I’ve learned to do this by being positive.   When someone points out that I have wrinkles around the corners of my mouth or my eyes, I smile and happily remark that I’m proud of those wrinkles – it means that I have smiled a lot in my life to create them.

On Sunday afternoon, November 8^th, Moonflower Yoga has a great workshop to help women look at their bodies in a different way. It is entitled LOVE YOUR BODY NOW and is presented by the talented Shana Sweeney.   In this incredible workshop, you learn that many women have a negative body image and wished their body looked different in some way.  If you are unaccepting and critical of your body as it is right now, you are not alone.  In this great LOVE YOUR BODY NOW workshop, Shana will teach you how to break the negative belief system and embrace and love your body just as it is right now.  You will use tools such as meditation, free writing, and ritual to help you heal your relationship with yourself and your body.  You do not need to try to attain a shape defined by this culture, and you can give beauty a new definition and have a positive body image.

If you are in the area of Bellmore, in Long Island, New York’s Nassau County, come join us on Sunday afternoon, November 8^th, at the Moonflower Yoga studio for this great workshop with Shana.   You will learn something new and feel great about yourself! For more information on this workshop or any of the great yoga classes or teachers at Moonflower Yoga, click on the class descriptions section of the moonfloweryoga.com website.   We look forward to seeing you soon!