Your Body is Not an Apology Workshop

By Kate Mattleman and Mora Pluchino

“You, my love, are not disposable.  Besides, your body wants nothing more than to be your buddy through this ride called life, and that means you (and your body) will need a solid set of tools for the road.”  Sonya Renee Taylor

Sonya Renee Taylor, author of the bestselling book, Your Body is Not An Apology says that “Radical self-love is an action practice.” There are those that profit from our discontentment and our disconnection from what is “divine.” The average person spends 15.5 hours ingesting various forms of media per day. The average woman spends $15,000 on beauty products over her lifetime. Think about what you would spend that time or money on, if not mascara, eye cream, hair products and lipstick. 

Instead, we can begin our journey towards radical self love and learn to choose the things that can bring us closer to joy and “remind us of what is central about being alive.” The answers to happiness are not getting rid of gray hairs, belly fat or having perfect eyebrows. These are distractions to help us avoid being present  to our fears and this can keep us from our “most potent desires.” 

The bodies portrayed in the media only represent about 5% of Americans, yet 80% of people reported they felt they should look like that. When we don’t look like what we see over and over in magazines, on TV and on social media (because statistically most of us are not 5’11” and 117 pounds) we start to resent the bodies we have. 

Your journey toward radical self love can start now. Kate and Mora want to teach you how to “keep the profit of your labor” and to restore your relationship with yourself.  Ms. Taylor shares that “pulling up the weeds of body shame and reclaiming the right to live unapologetically in your body” is your privilege and what you deserve.  

This introductory workshop will get you on the path to discover how to act in radical self-love, how to invest in the radical self-love routine, how to examine how you currently operate and possibly how to create new, self-loving patterns of behavior. We’ll talk about things like thinking, being and doing to help you “dump the junk” and begin some quality pillars of practice. 

This workshop will be followed with an ongoing book club series using “Your Body is Not An Apology” and will include mediation, movement and how to engage in the work toward dismantling the body-shaming and body-terrorism systems, creating a more kind, compassionate, just and equitable world for all of us.

Not sure this class is for you? Send us an email and we’ll be happy to discuss!

Email: practicallyperfectPT@gmail.com or justbefarm6839@gmail.com