Larkin Silverman is a self-proclaimed Vinyasa Vixen who teaches accessible, inclusive, empowering,  Body Neutral and Trauma Informed group and private fitness classes. For Larkin, these movement modalities are an act of reckoning and reclamation. In today’s episode she is going to be sharing these deeply liberative practices and mindset shifts with you in podcast form, as she aims to do as a teacher with all of her classes.

On today’s episode with Larkin we dive into: 

  • Gaslighting in the fitness industry, from dance, to crossfit to yoga classes 
  • How fitness instructors can feed negative body image conversations that make people feel like this practice is not for them.
  • How Larkin was able to cultivate a safer space for herself in a fat phobic industry, while existing in a larger body  
  • What are some of your go-to tools and strategies you use to protect your mental and emotional health and cultivate resilience on bad body image days? 
  • Toxic postpartum body ideals, and the enormous amount of pressure put on postpartum bodies – what needs to change in the messaging directed towards postpartum bodies to create a more safe and inclusive space 

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