The Minded Institute is proud to announce an upcoming five-part online series, Yoga Therapy Skills for Eating Disorders, led by the Founder of Eat Breathe Thrive, Chelsea Roff.
Eating disorders are complex physical and psychological conditions that can impact every facet of a person's well-being. For many, they are not simply a mental illness but are profoundly tied to social relationships, traumatic experiences, biological predisposition, and internalized stigma. They not only affect a person’s health but also their ability to engage fully in their communities, relationships, and daily life.
This course is designed specifically for professionals who are looking to expand their knowledge and skills to bring yoga therapy into their work with people with eating disorders.
In this five-part series, you will learn directly from Chelsea Roff, a leading researcher and yoga therapist in the field of eating disorders. Combining clinical knowledge with a yoga therapy framework, this series offers a deep dive into how yoga therapy can address the biological, psychological, social, and embodied dimensions of recovery.
If you’re passionate about somatic approaches to eating disorder recovery and keen to connect and learn with like-minded professionals, this course is for you.
Who is this training for?
This course is aimed at yoga therapists and yoga therapists in training. We also welcome yoga teachers, yoga teachers in training, and health professionals from other backgrounds all who have additional skills in working with eating disorders or who are taking this seminar series as a pathway to further training.
Does this training certify me to work with students with eating disorders one-on-one?
No. This course is designed to increase your awareness of eating disorders and help you understand the benefits of yoga in prevention and treatment. You will learn about the role yoga teachers and yoga therapists play within an integrated clinical treatment team, with best-practice guidance.
Offered by
Chelsea Roff
Dates & Times
We will meet via Zoom on Tuesdays, 6:00-8:30 PM GMT, January 14th through February 11th 2025.
Cost:
£175
To learn more about the sessions, click here.
Chelsea Roff is the Founder and Director of Eat Breathe Thrive. A yoga therapist, researcher, and educator, she has spent nearly a decade pioneering integrative health programs for people with mental health challenges.
In 2011, Roff offered the first Yoga for Eating Disorders program to clients at a treatment center where she had once been treated for anorexia. This later became the heart of Eat Breathe Thrive: a seven-week program that combines yoga, meditation, and psychoeducation to help people recover from eating disorders. Two years later, she raised $50,000 in fifty days to kickstart Eat Breathe Thrive. Since its inception, she has brought the program to scale in thirty-two U.S. states and seven countries.
Prior to her work in the charitable sector, Chelsea worked as a researcher and grant writer in a psychoneuroimmunology laboratory. Her early research focused on how yoga affects the immune systems of people with HIV/AIDs and cancer. She is currently overseeing a research initiative on the Eat Breathe Thrive program, which is slated to be the largest-ever study on a yoga program for eating disorders.
This year, Chelsea took on an additional role as Co-Executive Director for The Give Back Yoga Foundation. She is currently spearheading an initiative to bring therapeutic yoga programs to scale in healthcare systems in the United Kingdom and throughout Europe.