Body Image Lab

January 11th - February 22nd, 2025
In-person in Berlin OR Online

A 7-week course to deconstruct, question, play with and expand your idea of body image to befriend and empower yourself guided by Mina Lange

As 2024 is coming to an end, your heart might be filling with disappointment: 2024 was another year where you couldn’t make your body fit a certain mold you envisioned for yourself. But what if instead of starting another diet, we befriended our bodies and spirits on all levels to start 2025 with a more resilient, compassionate, and wise outlook?

This course is an attempt to soften our harsh attachment to body image so we can cultivate a much more multi-faceted, rich, and dynamic relationship with ourselves and, therefore, our self-esteem. Questioning beauty standards and advocating for more diverse representation is one side of the equation, but we also need to broaden the idea of ourselves to include more than just the visual sense.

Body Image Laboratory… is a space where we come together and use different somatic techniques, gentle movement, breath, visualization, journaling, discussion, and more to break our attachment to body image. We get curious about how we can approach our self-worth from other perspectives than from a visual standpoint.

Schedule

Saturdays from 11:15 to 12:30 CET

Week 1 | Jan 11: Questioning the supremacy of the body image. Grounding and embodying body image to include all five senses.

Week 2 | Jan 18: Becoming a majestic animal. Playfully channeling different animals to tap into their essence and sensuality.

Week 3 | Jan 25: Radical acceptance to plug into your power. Examining our relationship to strength, pride, and resilience.

Week 4 | Feb 1: Rediscovering beauty. Finding beauty in breath, movement, and constant change.

Week 5 | Feb 8: Sound and Stillness. Exploring the dimension of sound, energy, and frequency resonance in the body.

Week 6 | Feb 15: Beyond the Seen. Tapping outside the five senses and the dogma of black and white.

Week 7 | Feb 22: Bliss Body. The potential of joy, freedom, and bliss outside the cage of the body image.

*Course themes can change slightly according to group dynamics, needs, etc.

Outline of each session

Sessions are 75 minutes long and are held in person and online.

The sessions start with a short talk to introduce the theme. Then we move into the embodied section of the session, which may include breathwork, some gentle movement, relaxation, and visualization. We finish with a moment to journal before we open our circle to Q&A and sharing.

All sessions are recorded and can be accessed until March 31st, 2025.

Who is this course for?

This is for anyone who ever felt that their body was too ….. or too ….. and that they needed to change their body to fit some mold.

Mina is a survivor of eating disorders and narcissistic abuse. The themes of body image and self-esteem are very close to her, and she has spent the last twenty years healing and working through the ripples of these karmic imprints through yoga, dance, meditation, and various somatic modalities.

She draws on yoga, Buddhism, shamanism, Kabbalah, and other wisdom traditions that have assisted her on her path to weave them into harmonious tools of empowerment.

Mina is a yoga teacher of 12+ years, an IAYT-certified yoga therapist as well as a healing practitioner for psychotherapy (Heilpraktiker für Psychotherapie). Some of her specialty training include “The Role of Yoga in Eating Disorder Recovery (2023)”, “Trauma-Informed Yoga Therapy Workshop (2021)”, and “Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Immersion (2021)”.

If you have any questions or concerns feel free to send Mina a message at hi@minalange.com.

Meet your Teacher

Location

Sarasvati Yoga Berlin

If you want to join the course in-person in Berlin, you are invited to Sarasvati Yoga Berlin, a beautiful studio in Wilmersdorf. The studio is equipped with yoga mats and props, so all you have to do is show up in comfortable clothing.