Erica Mather, M.A. E-RYT 500, is an author and yoga therapist who helps people feel better in, and about, their bodies. Her book Your Body, Your Best Friend: End the Confidence-Crushing Pursuit of Unrealistic Beauty Standards & Embrace Your True Power (New Harbinger, 2020) has captured the attention of yoga and mental health professionals as a guidebook for overcoming body image dissatisfaction. Her Adore Your Body Transformational Programs provide concierge, results-oriented body image coaching, and, The Yoga Clinic helps students, teachers, and health professionals to learn about empowered self-care for the body. Mather is a Forrest Yoga lineage-holder and has been profiled in the New York Times, NY Weekly, Yoga Journal, and Wisconsin Public Radio. Find her on Instagram @Erica_Mather and www.ericamather.com.
Erica shares the story of her upbringing in Wisconsin, the loss of her father and her struggle with migraines throughout her youth. Playing music led her to New York to study Ethnomusicology, she discusses some of her academic interests, including activism and gender imbalance in music and her eventual decision to leave college and become a yoga teacher. Erica shares her yoga and self-care practices and her journey supporting people with their body image to step into the body and embrace the societal stereotypes we are born into.
Erica and Giancarlo discuss her book; an accumulation of everything she's learnt and experienced, and a tool to help people understand, overcome and find peace within their bodies.