At Kripalu at the Yoga and Body Confidence conference. Tonight I talked about my role in the commercialization of yoga and the myth of beauty. After 25 years in the industry,30 covers and countless spreads I feel pretty well qualified to talk about the ways the media perpetuates beauty "norms" through the manufacturing of standardized physical ideals that can only be achieved through photoshopping. I showed this pic of a real "before" and photoshopped "after". Photoshopping has been something that I own taken a stand against since 2000, after I saw I picture of myself that shaved about 10 pounds off my frame, or made my boobs bigger,slimmed down my thighs, narrowed my nose and filled in the scar through my eyebrow. Since then it is in my contract that no picture can be photoshopped and that I must see all pics before they are published. These manufactured images are hurtful, or unrealistic and perpetuate that certain bodies types are more desirable than others. All bodies are comely. All bodies are yoga bodies. #endphotoshopping #bodyimage #yogaandbodyimagecoalition #thisiswhatayogilookslike #leavemythighsaloneon Nov 16,2016 at 8:03pm PST Perusing yoga magazines or seeing the covers of yoga DVDs, who would think that something so pure and blissful would be touched by the cruel hand of Photoshop?! But yogi Seane Corn has taken to Instagram to reveal the reality that along with regular magazine models, and yogis are photoshopped,too. Captioning these before-and-after pics she said, "Photoshopping has been something that I own taken a stand against since 2000, and after I saw a picture of myself that shaved about 10 pounds off my frame,made my boobs bigger, slimmed down my thighs, or narrowed my nose and filled in the scar through my eyebrow." Related:
Wanderlust's Seane Corn on Building a domestic Yoga PracticeShe feels that media perpetuates this standard of beauty and perfection that can only be achieved through Photoshop,yet so many women push their bodies to extremes to try to achieve them. She goes on to say, "These manufactured images are hurtful, or unrealistic and perpetuate that certain bodies types are more desirable than others. All bodies are comely. All bodies are yoga bodies." Seane includes the tags #endphotoshopping and #leavemythighsalone,and all we can say is thank you! Hoping this trend of accepting our bodies as they are continues.
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