Every human has inherent worth and dignity.
Rather than judging your body by what it produces or how it looks, we believe your body matters because you matter.
Your body is how you experience the world—and how the world experiences you.
You and your body deserve self-acceptance and self-care.
You don’t have to love—or even like—your body to be loyal to it.
You show your body loyalty by listening to it and treating it with kindness, moment by moment and day by day, until you and your body develop trust for each other.
Relationships are not always positive or always negative—they’re built moment by moment and change based on circumstances.
Relationships involve two parties, each with their own perspective and feelings. You have feelings about your body, and your body sure as hell has feelings about you.
Your relationship with your body can change through loving choice after loving choice, throughout your life.
Our teachings take into account the experiences and sensory needs of our students’ bodies. We help our students create habits that meet their body’s needs because their bodies deserve to be cared for.
We celebrate the diversity of bodies, brains, and experiences. We are trauma informed, disability informed, and center the experiences of people on the margins.
We believe individuals chart their own course. We encourage readers to take what belongs to them and leave the rest. As a result, we teach without shame and encourage readers to learn without shame.
Self-acceptance is interwoven with accepting others. By accepting the full range of the human experience, we can come to accept ourselves.
We practice community care. By supporting others to get their needs met, we create room for our own. We support self-acceptance through a practice of self-care; that is, building habits that care for the body.
Joy is not the destination—it’s part of the path to healing. It is very different from pretending at happiness. Joy is an action.
Joy is radical. In a world that treats people like resources to be used up and worn out, joy with no purpose is resistance. So we help people experience the world around them purely for themselves and their own enjoyment.