Why did I start the Befriend Your Body Workshops?

Why did I start these Befriend Your Body Workshops?

One day in the middle of the most difficult year of my life I realized that nearly every thought I had about my body was negative. I woke up to this fact and thought, "Why do I think all these negative thoughts about myself? Something needs to change."

So I started with a very simple practice. Every time I looked in the mirror, I said, "Hi Joanna. I love you." And it was the beginning of a beautiful transformation. After years of hating my body and struggling with insecurity about who I was, I finally started to know who I was, to know I was loved, and to live fully into my identity as myself.

The Befriend Your Body Workshops are about connecting with your body, about loving and affirming your body just for the fact that it houses you: your magnificent, unique self. But the workshops are about more than just befriending your body. They are about befriending your whole self and knowing how loved you truly are.

Sign up here: openhandsmovementanddance.com/befriend

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