This week I’m sharing with you the first of a five part video series I just released ‘On Healing Anorexia Through Ashtanga Yoga’. This a topic that often feels very taboo in the yoga community, and yet there are so many women and men suffering from it. Having struggled with an eating disorder myself for over 13 years, and having tried all kinds of therapies and healing methodologies along the way, I stand today proud to say that it wasn’t until I began to practice Ashtanga Yoga seven years ago that my healing process began. I stand today free of an anorexic mind thanks to a steady, devoted, sincere practice. The journey into wholesomeness is never easy and it never ends; once you begin uncovering the truth you can never stop you can only continue to refine. The journey needs bravery, faith, patience, willingness to fail, truth and support. 

 As a teacher I see how many women and men suffer from an eating disorder, and how much shame and silence surrounds it. Anorexia is a mental disease, a nervous system imbalance, and needs to be treated as such. There is nothing to be ashamed about it, it’s just part of the journey of becoming a wholesome human. For the longest time I felt ashamed to have anorexia and later to have been a victim to an eating disorder. Today I see the value in it, I see how much it helped me to overcome so many fears in life, to learn to ask for help, to learn to share, to learn no one is perfect. There is nothing wrong with admitting we have a problem, we all do. I’m a firm believer in sharing, and use my platforms as a way of sharing my own journey in the hopes that this will inspire others to open up and be vulnerable.

One of my favorite speakers Brenee Brown recently came out with a book about vulnerability, ‘Daring Greatly’ which I highly recommend reading. In one of her essays she says “We’re hungry for people who have the courage to say, “I need help” or “I own that mistake””. It’s true, we are always looking for someone to give us permission to speak our truth, to be or do what we really want to be or do. But what if we were to give ourselves that permission?

A funny example of this happened this weekend, my boyfriend and I led the Full Moon Celebration at Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, he was playing with his funk jazz band Telepathic Moon Dance, his music is so groovy it’s really hard not to dance. The venue was packed, people were standing swaying from side to side looking around. You could tell everyone was just waiting for someone to start the dance party, giving them permission to dance themselves. I was on the side recording the show having a dance party myself, a crew of people behind me where dancing shyly, but it wasn’t until this one beautiful free spirited girl leaped onto the dance floor right in front of everyone and started dancing like a wild child, as if no one else was around with so much joy and innocence that everyone else broke into a dance party. Sometime we all need someone to give us permission to freely express ourselves. I hope you all have that someone in your lives 🙂

On Healing Anorexia Through Ashtanga Yoga

@bibi.lorenzetti

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Having suffered from anorexia for over ten years and having tried all types of healing methodologies, Bibi feel passionate to stand as an example of the healing properties of Ashtanga Yoga. It wasn’t until she began practicing Ashtanga Yoga that recovery began to happen at a very deep level. It has not been an easy journey, but a arduous, slow process of acceptance, of deep looking, of hurt, of mourning, of isolation that finally lead to rebirth.

Bibi is on a mission to educate people around the world on how to use the practice of ashtanga yoga as a method of recovery from eating disorders. She is a firm believer of the healing properties of this practice as she herself recovered through it. Ashtanga Yoga helps connecting with the deeper parts of our being to create  true lasting transformation.

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Bibi Lorenzetti is a Level 2 Authorized Ashtanga Yoga Teacher & Holistic Health Coach. She received her blessing to teach Ashtanga Yoga in 2014, from the Sri K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute in Mysore, India, where she has had the honor of assisting R. Sharath Jois multiple times over the years. She taught at the Shala Yoga House in New York City for over 6 years and is now the owner of her own Shala in Newburgh, New York: Ashtanga Yoga Newburgh (AYNBNY).

Bibi was first introduced to Ashtanga Yoga in 2010. She has completed the third series of Ashtanga Yoga under Sharath Jois’s and Eddie Stern’s guidance. Over the past 10 years, Bibi has become a sincere believer in the profound beauty and many benefits of this method. Her teaching is rooted in her own disciplined and dedicated practice.

She has been featured in Glamour Magazine, in the Netflix Michael O’Neill documentary ‘On Yoga: The Architecture of Peace‘, the ‘Heartbreak Kids’ Podcast, Ekam Inhale online Magazine, Ashtanga Yoga Parampara, The Native Society, Balearic Retreats, and many Yoga online forums; she has privately taught many high-profile entertainers including Madonna and many business moguls. She intends to share the transformative and healing practice of Ashtanga Yoga with her students through accessible, intelligent, and precise instruction. Bibi guides her students to use asana as a tool to cultivate a deeper awareness of one’s body, a steady & clear mind, and a healthy, ease-filled life.

She is here to support you personally and collectively.

To book her for a talk, you can contact her via email [email protected]