Non-Diet Yogi
Non-Diet Yogi explores and dismantles the world of #BigWellness, where yoga, spirituality, fitness, diet culture, white supremacy and toxic female entrepreneurship collide in a dizzying spectacle of goji berries and designer mala beads.This podcast is for you if you - love yoga, but don’t always love yoga culture - wish to form a deeper connection with your body and with the natural world around you, minus the wellness wankery - are tired of the classism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, fat phobia and other threads of white supremacy woven throughout #BigWellness. Hosted by Casey Conroy, non-diet dietitian, naturopath in training, and yoga teacher.
Episodes
33 episodes
Ep 33. Buddhism and Intuitive Eating with Jenna Hollenstein
Intuitive Eating is an incredible approach for people seeking to heal their relationships with food and their bodies. But it's not without its challenges. In this episode I speak with the wonderful Jenna Hollenstein, who brings years of experie...
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Ep 32. Moontime Nutrition Part 2: Nourishing Your Pre-Ovulatory Phase
The Pre-Ovulatory Phase or "Inner Spring" starts from the cessation of menstrual bleeding to a few days before ovulation. In a typical 28-day cycle, this approximately corresponds to day 6 until day 11. This phase has traditionally been s...
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Episode 32
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57:20
Ep 31. Moontime Nutrition Part 1: Nourishing Your Menstrual Phase
The cyclical nature of your menstrual cycle communicates your constantly changing needs: physically, mentally and emotionally. The Menstrual Phase starts from the first to the last day of bleeding, lasting around 3 to 7 days. Here are my ...
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Episode 31
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38:09
Ep 30. Bonus Sample: The Cacao Cacophony - Deconstructing a pseudo-spiritual experience
What do you get when you combine a cacao ceremony, hypoxia-inducing breathwork, a bunch of influences from disparate spiritual cultures, partner yoga with intrusive eye-gazing, and really loud music? All that culturally appropriated ps...
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Episode 30
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11:15
Ep 29. Overcoming Elitism and Racism in Yoga with Dianne Bondy
The 8 limbs of yoga fundamentally support anti-racism, diversity, and body acceptance - and yet yoga in the west has been largely inaccessible to anyone who isn’t white, wealthy, thin, and able-bodied. In this episode I speak with the incredibl...
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Episode 29
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1:05:53
Ep 28. Bonus Sample: Yoga X Strength Training - What my practice looks like nowadays
My personal journey with movement: how I got into yoga, how yoga contributed to my developing and recovering from an eating disorder, discovering the benefits and limits of strength training, and what my practice looks like nowadays. Ac...
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Episode 28
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14:55
Ep 27. Thin Privilege and Body Inclusive Fitness with Anna Hearn
By neutralising body size, not focussing on weight loss and instead emphasising the importance of enjoying movement and caring for our bodies, Anna Hearn is reimagining what the fitness industry could look like. Plus, we discuss the elephant in...
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Episode 27
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43:57
Ep 26. Bonus Sample: Patriarchy and Diet Culture
Patriarchy seeks to control and exert power over nature generally, and the bodies of women specifically. Beneath marketable wellness concepts like "clean eating" lie deep ties to body control, and culturally imposed shame over women’s bod...
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Episode 26
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Ep 25. Addressing the Root Causes of Weight Gain
Here I offer some compassion and gentle guidance to anyone who has experienced an increase in their body weight that concerns them. By taking a naturopathic, holistic and HAES-aligned approach, I want to help you get on board with your body and...
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Episode 25
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1:12:42
Ep 24. Bonus Sample: First, Do No Harm
There is an inherent fat phobia and weight stigma in the natural health and wellness communities. Leanness is conflated with health: we're consistently told that fat is the problem, and weight loss is the solution. But focussing on weight loss ...
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Ep 23. Weight-Neutral Women’s Health with Dr. Caitlin O’Connor, ND
Naturopathy was never intended to focus on weight loss. And when it comes to women’s health - especially preconception care, postpartum and peri-menopause - taking the emphasis off of weight and shape and onto health becomes even more imperativ...
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Episode 23
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1:09:00
Ep 22. Bonus Sample: The Essential Oil Spill
What happens when you combine diet culture with MLM essential oil giants doTERRA and Young Living? Disordered eating, poor body image, and a burnt gullet. The practice of ingesting essential oils has been a wellness trend for the last ...
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Ep 21. Cognitive Inoculation & Aromatherapy During the Pandemic, with Salvatore Battaglia
Yes, we can hold both conventional and natural medicine in the same hand. Yes, we can work with traditional wisdom philosophies, whilst using modern science to provide cognitive inoculation against COVID disinformation. And we can do it all whi...
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1:14:49
Ep 20. Bonus Sample: Yogi, Naturopath, Vaxxed
Working amongst wellness and yoga circles, and living in a permaculture eco village that draws many alternative lifestyle-seeking fringe dwellers, I'm embedded within multiple vaccine hesitant communities. Navigating both my personal stance and...
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Episode 20
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Ep 19. Welcome back! Personal reflections on a challenging year
In this episode I share why this podcast went quiet in the past year. I discuss divorce, compassion & critical thinking, and working as a holistic health practitioner in communities burdened by COVID misinformation. It contains a lot of per...
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Episode 19
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44:56
Ep 18. Healing from Hypothalamic Amenorrhoea with Phoebe Jobson
Restrictive eating is a major pain, especially when it causes you to lose your period. Hypothalamic Amenorrhoea (HA) leads to infertility but also a bunch of other lesser known issues. Anti-diet naturopath Phoebe Jobson and I talk all things HA...
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Episode 18
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1:19:56
Ep 17. Decolonised Self-Care with Laura Jean
For our collective liberation, it is crucial that our wellness practices go beyond the mainstream representation of individualised, material self-care. Laura Jean, APD talks about community care as a form of self-care that creates space for eve...
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Episode 17
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1:05:34
Ep 16: Blood, Sweat, and Açaí: The Karma of Superfoods
Did you know that many far-flung ‘superfoods’ carry a heavy environmental and social footprint?In this episode:WTF is a superfood? (and some brief thoughts on Juice Plus+)Rarity breeds desireIssues a...
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Episode 16
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26:40
Ep 15: Wellness Capitalism: Essential Oil MLMs, Whitewashed Herbalism & "Naturopreneurs" with Katya Weiss-Andersson
It's time we explored capitalism in it’s indiscriminately elderberry syrup guzzling, MLM essential oil dowsed, $400 supplement protocol pushing form: Wellness Capitalism. In this episode:The value of healthy skepticism,...
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Episode 15
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1:44:24
Ep 14. Performative Activism: Feigned Anti-Racism & White Supremacy in Yoga
There has been a phenomenal uptick of rising yoga and wellness influencers posting anti-racism sentiments on social media. Yet in stark contrast to the important message of bringing light to police brutality against BIPOC, or tackling underrepr...
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Episode 14
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59:38
Ep 13. Fitness & Womxn’s Blood Rites: Tracking Menses, Not Macros and Embracing Menopause with Rachelle Ballard-Clayton
There is a lack of representation of women aged 40+ in fitness. Rachelle Ballard-Clayton is shifting that pattern by basing her approach to training womxn on their shifting internal landscape and cyclical patterns.In this episode:
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Episode 13
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1:39:54
Ep 12. Our Bodies are Oceans: Energy Healing, Embodied Surfing & HAES® with Shae Dingle
There are many parallels between our bodies as feeling, sensuous beings worthy of care and attention, and the kind of bodily care and movement encouraged in non-diet and weight neutral approaches like HAES.In this episode:
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Episode 12
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1:10:39
Ep 11. Wildly Accessible Food & Medicine: Foraging Edible Weeds & Bush Foods with Pat Collins
Foraging for edible weeds is an accessible and inclusive healthcare skill. Pat Collins is a highly experienced herbalist, natural health practitioner and bush craftswoman with a passion for sharing her foraging know-how and instilling i...
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Episode 11
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58:10
Ep 10. Gym Culture without Weight Loss Challenges: Bringing HAES®, Intuitive Eating and Body Positivity into Fitness with Monique Jephcote
Gym culture can be incredibly toxic for people struggling with body image and eating concerns. Monique Jephcote, APD, PT and Intuitive Eating Counsellor, is infusing weight-neutral principles into the fitness world with compassion, respect and ...
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Episode 10
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1:22:45
Ep 9. COVID-19 and Diet Culture: Discerning Wisdom from Wellness Wankery in Uncertain Times
With great uncertainty comes fear and uprooted trauma. COVID-19 has seen an amplification of weight stigma, wellness wankery, and conspiracy theories that have the potential to magnify our stress and trauma. Here's what to look out for, as well...
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Episode 9
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40:51