About: Melanie Klein
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A Look at How Yoga Became a Tool for Women’s Empowerment & Activism: An Interview with Kate Clere McIntyre of Yogawoman.by Melanie Klein on Apr 22, 2013 Feminism and yoga changed my life. In fact, I often credit them for saving my life and they just so happened to come into my life around the same time. For me, both feminism and yoga are synonymous for freedom, and I see them as the keys to liberation. It’s why the film Yogawoman resonated with [...] 377 views |
Practicing Body Acceptance, Compassion & Community—A Conversation with Dr. Melody Moore.by Melanie Klein on Jan 7, 2013 Source: redefiningbodyimage.tumblr.com via Karla on Pinterest The final installment of a four part interview series examining this year’s newly launched Yoga, Sex and Feminism, Tantra Vinyasa conference. In this series I spoke with Vajra Ma, the conference’s keynote speaker, founder of Woman Mysteries of the Ancient Future Sisterhood and The Tantric Dance of Feminine Power, [...] 662 views |
Vajra Ma on the Tantric Dance of Feminine Power.by Melanie Klein on Jan 3, 2013 This is part three of a four part interview series examining this year’s newly launched Yoga, Sex and Feminism, Tantra Vinyasa conference. In this series I talk with Vajra Ma, the conference’s keynote speaker, founder of Woman Mysteries of the Ancient Future Sisterhood and The Tantric Dance of Feminine Power, and Dr. Melody Moore, clinical [...] 266 views |
 Yoga, Sex & Feminism—What’s the Connection?by Melanie Klein on Dec 10, 2012 … 2,309 views |
Talking Yoga, Sex & Feminism: An Interview Series with Vajra Ma & Dr. Melody Moore.by Melanie Klein on Dec 3, 2012 … 704 views |
Yoga’s 21st Century Facelift & the Myth of the Perfect Ass(ana).by Melanie Klein on Nov 12, 2012 The following post is part of the 21st Century Yoga: Culture, Politics and Practice book club exclusive to elephant journal. It’s based on Melanie Klein’s essay on feminism, yoga, body image and the media. In her essay, she distinguishes between the practice of yoga and the culture of yoga, including the rise of the increasingly [...] 3,217 views |
Generations of Body Battles: How I’m Learning to Be a Peacemaker.by Melanie Klein on Nov 11, 2011 Self-Love Can Be A Battlefield. My body is a battleground. I have spent most of my life waging a war on it. I have vivid girlhood memories of my worth being measured by my waist size and numbers on a scale. I was taught that I must “suffer to be beautiful.” This troubled relationship with body and self [...] 521 views |
 Your Silence Will Not Protect You.by Melanie Klein on Nov 6, 2011 Occupy Speaks Through Image and Music Art and music have always been the inspiring byproduct and narrator of movements aimed at social change. The Occupy movement is no different, as art becomes a key player in expressing the frustrations, dreams and demands of its participants. As Michele Elam reported for CNN: Art has emerged as [...] 369 views |
How many D*cks does Jon Stewart have?by Melanie Klein on Sep 29, 2011 Too Many! Not enough ladies, too many men! MUST SEE VIDEO: Pop Culture Hacker Jonathan McIntosh, creator of Right-Wing Radio Duck, has done it again! For full video commentary, see Rebellious Pixels. Image via ContactMusic. 556 views |
You’re so Perfect…except for your Boobs: Body Image, Beauty & the Painful Pursuit of Perfection.by Melanie Klein on Jun 29, 2011 Body Image, Beauty and the Painful Pursuit of Perfection. “Look! I married you a certain way! I like women who look a certain way! It’s my right to like women who look a certain way and I shouldn’t have to spend the rest of my life not being happy.” Brad exclaimed. The retort from my [...] 2,958 views |
Make-up & Hot Pink Toenails—Not Just a Girl Thing.by Melanie Klein on Apr 8, 2011 “Doing Gender” in the Mainstream Media. My toddler son has a thing for all things wheeled. He can easily distinguish a skip loader from a backhoe and a semi-truck from a dump truck. He’s also intrigued by my jewelery box, stacking bracelets high up his pudgy arms. After watching Mommy’s daily morning ritual of applying [...] 800 views |
The Princess & the (Downward-Facing) Dog.by Melanie Klein on Mar 1, 2011 Can Yoga Combat the Limitations of the Princess Brigade? Yogini and New York Times best-selling author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter, Peggy Orenstein, thinks so. In a recent addition to her growing resource list on her book‘s website, she states: Girls want to do ballet in preschool. And that can be fine. But most of [...] 1,927 views |
 How Yoga Makes You Pretty – Part Deuxby Melanie Klein on Feb 14, 2011 Looking Pretty Versus Feeling Beautiful Read How Yoga Makes You Pretty – Part I: The Wisdom of Bryan Kest and the Beauty Myth Yoga, a derivative of yuj which means “to bind or yoke”, is a holistic system that addresses the whole person- physically, mentally, emotionally and energetically. Ultimately, the intention of yoga is to [...] 1,497 views |
I’m Pregnant But I Just Feel Fat.by Melanie Klein on Feb 8, 2011 Pregnancy, Body Image and the Age of ‘Bump Watch’ Originally posted at Feminist Fatale, April 2010. Updated for Elephant Journal. I can’t believe I said it – not once, not twice but repeatedly throughout my entire pregnancy. I started to feel that way at the beginning of my first trimester and it continued all the [...] 4,152 views |
How Yoga Makes You Pretty – Part I.by Melanie Klein on Jan 30, 2011 “We’ve been told that “pretty” is the magical elixir for everything that ails us. If we’re pretty we’re bound to be happier than people who aren’t pretty. If we’re pretty, we’ll never be lonely; we’ll have more Facebook friend requests…” 7,065 views |
Eradicate the H8! March On!by Melanie Klein on Nov 4, 2010 Get Ready To Be Inspired. Why do so many people look for heroes outside themselves and outside their communities? March On! reminds us that we are the ones we’ve been waiting for. March On! features the stories of individuals and families that made the conscious decision to take time off work and other “householder” responsibilities [...] 706 views |
Donald Duck/Glenn Beck Remix.by Melanie Klein on Oct 15, 2010 Jonathon McIntosh’s remix will knock your socks off! Via Rebellious Pixels: Description: This is a re-imagined Donald Duck cartoon remix constructed from 50 classic Walt Disney cartoons from the 1930s to 1960s. Donald’s life is turned upside-down by the current economic crisis and he finds himself unemployed and falling behind on his house payments. As [...] 812 views |
Should Members of the Yoga Community and Yoga Publications Emphasize Weight Loss, Size Zero Bodies and Advertise Diet Pills?by Melanie Klein on Sep 14, 2010 The Cult of Thinness, Yoga and Advertising “Personally I think American yoga reflects American culture–so there’s ageism and body-type discrimination as well as racism. And the more popular yoga becomes, the more mainstream, the more it takes on the qualities of the “mainstream” as it is represented by the media: white, upper-middle class, young, hip, [...] 2,616 views |
 Pretty is Not Worthy of Everything You Will Be.by Melanie Klein on Sep 9, 2010 Nor should it be. Lets teach our daughters to be pretty intelligent and pretty amazing. The mainstream culture floods the cultural space with streams of images of models and celebs perfectly coiffed and polished by a team of professionals. This narrow and obsessive focus on an unrealistic beauty standard has increasingly reduced our girls and [...] 4,404 views |
Sexing Up Our Kids.by Melanie Klein on Aug 16, 2010 Skinny Jeans and High Heels for Babies. As if high heels, padded kiddie bikinis, thong underwear, stripper poles, and denim diapers weren’t enough, parents are now able to buy their toddler their own pair of skinny jeans. Skinny jeans are just the latest item in a larger cumulative force that is turning babies, toddlers and [...] 1,997 views |
 Dancing Spirit into Being.by Melanie Klein on Jul 29, 2010 The Tantric Dance of Feminine Power with Nita Rubio. Watching Nita dance is watching poetry in motion. Witnessing Nita is witnessing the Goddess. Nita has long been a secret treasure for women in Los Angeles and Orange County,whose reach and influence is growing. Flowing with grace, wisdom and strength, Nita empowers women by “aligning them [...] 1,288 views |
Operation Beautiful.by Melanie Klein on Jul 20, 2010 Changing Your Mind One Post-it at a Time. I love the sentiment and spirit behind Operation Beautiful. It feels good. You feel good and you can make others feel great. Leave an anonymous post-it note in a public place for another to see with a positive affirmation. “You’re beautiful.” “You’re perfect just the way you [...] 936 views |
Sexist Meat Market.by Melanie Klein on Jul 15, 2010 Pamela Anderson’s Newest Ad Campaign for PETA. Ah, PETA is at it again. Here is their latest installment in a series of sexist, degrading ads featuring an objectified, nearly nude woman. This time long-time animal rights activist, Pamela Anderson, is “carved” up like any other hunk of meat. PETA utilizes images of nude or near [...] 4,289 views |
Punk Rock Yoga.by Melanie Klein on Jul 8, 2010 Hard Core Vinyasa and Big Love in the Motor City. This guy isn’t like anyone else. That was the first thought that came to mind when I saw Jason Schramm, the founder and owner of Detroit Yoga. I met Jason at Saul David Raye‘s Thai Yoga Therapy Training at the White Lotus Foundation in 2001 [...] 1,868 views |
 Let’s Talk About Sex (and Support Indie Media).by Melanie Klein on Jun 22, 2010 How to Lose Your Virginity Just Rounded Third Base. Help them Make it Home! It’s hard to escape the subject of sex. Images of sex saturate advertisements, gyrating teens proclaim abstinence and millions of dollars of federal money has been funneled into abstinence-only “sexual education.” Virginity has become another commodity sold to the highest bidder, [...] 515 views |
Sisterhood is (Still) Powerful.by Melanie Klein on Jun 15, 2010 Sisterhood, the Divine Feminine and Magic Making…in the Joshua Tree Highlands. What do you get when you take 12 women of different ages, races, sizes and socioeconomic classes and place them in a large dome in the desert? No, this isn’t a pitch for yet another reality show or a tabloid headline. But if it [...] 1,386 views |
Feminism, Body Image and Yoga.by Melanie Klein on Jun 8, 2010 Healing (my) Mind, Body & Spirit. It was in an afternoon yoga class 10 years ago that I realized my relationship with my body had been profoundly changed. Gazing up at my legs, glistening with sweat in shoulder-stand, I realized that I wasn’t searching for signs of “imperfection” or scrutinizing my body with the negative [...] 3,386 views |
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