Authentic Body Positivity & Accidental Activism with Dianne Bondy

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Dianne Bondy's web site declares in bold letters, "Yoga is for Every Body. No exceptions. You can do yoga." And she has devoted her teaching career to making sure this is the case. Over the past few decades, she has been proactive in creating yoga spaces that are empowering, inclusive, and equitable for all. I know Dianne from her playful and educational social media presence -- I had even more fun with her magnetic and charismatic presence in our talk. In our conversation she shares:

How she became a self-proclaimed "accidental activist"
Ideas for creating a more equitable class
How thinness is not equivalent to fitness
Weight-training, Pilates, and yoga as complements to each other, especially during menopause
How being in diverse spaces helps us see more beauty
Being true to ourselves and our conditioning when it comes to body positivity

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is Yoga Land.
0:04.0	Today my guest is Diane Bondi. Diane is a yoga teacher and movement coach. She's also
0:17.8	a podcaster, an author, a speaker, and as she calls herself an accidental activist. She is the author of the
0:25.7	international best-selling book Yoga for Everyone and co-author of the book
0:30.8	Yoga Where You Are. She's done speaking engagements at Princeton, Duke,
0:35.2	University of Buffalo, and UC Berkeley on yoga, race, and diversity. I first was
0:41.4	introduced to Diane through Instagram. I've been following her for years. I appreciate
0:47.0	her expertise in the yoga space and I also really appreciate her humor and her willingness to just completely put herself out there on
0:57.4	Instagram. I am one of these people that believes that humor is I think the single most important component in a person that I want to be friends with.
1:08.0	I just feel that humor is just like the linchpin of a balanced approach to humanity.
1:15.0	So I love her humor and I have been noticing lately that she has been posting a lot more about
1:22.0	menopause, Pilates, and strength training and I thought
1:27.1	I gotta have her on the show because this is you know the direction that I think so many of us have gone in terms of integrating different movement modalities with our yoga practice.
1:39.0	Whether we integrate it into our yoga practice or you know just balancing yoga certain days a week and
1:45.6	strength training certain days of the week it's great to have complementary movement
1:50.2	modalities and also I really love talking about menopause right now. It's I know that not all
1:56.3	of you out there are going through menopause but I do think that when people are going
2:00.9	through things the more we can talk about them and make them less taboo and just open up a dialogue,
2:07.6	the more we can learn from each other and process things together.
2:11.5	So Diane and I talk about all those things today. We talk
2:14.5	about her movement coaching. We talk about menopause and we also talk about her
2:20.9	background in yoga and how she became, as she says, this accidental
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