Body Liberation through Fitness with Damali Fraiser

01/18/24 • 37 min

Body Liberation through Fitness with Damali Fraiser

Many people are moving to position body neutrality over body positivity and Damali believes it's both/and. As Damali says, "We are never just one thing and just as I am a fat black woman that may not always like every aspect of my "both", I wants to seek anything but neutrality when comes to my body!"
In this episode we dive into:

Defining body neutrality, body positivity and how in the end it's more so about body liberation
How we can achieve body liberation through fitness
What it really means to be inclusive in fintess spaces
Finding community and belonging in your body
Getting to the root of why so many of us hate our bodies
Brining equity, inclusivity, and plus size representation to the kettlebell industry

Coaches Corner Waitlist & Free 5 Tools to Reimagine Well-being and Movement Culture
"Inclusivity is not just that somebody is included because people can be included and still not feel like they belong. Getting past token inclusion and really making it about full community care, so that when people are there, they're included, they belong."

About Damali
Damali believes that coaching is meaningful and meaningful coaching is inclusivity. We find inclusivity in fitness through compassion and the practice of dismantling systems of oppression for every BODY. Damali is a former Muay Thai Fighter, Mother of 2, now a non-diet kettlebell and nutrition coach, owner of Lift Off Strength & Wellness (liftoffstrength.ca) who teaches kettlebells in an accessible size-inclusive approach. At Coaches Corner, she also offers coaches, of all modalities of movement, the opportunity to learn to teach kettlebells safely and confidently.
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About Fantastical Fatty
Lindsay Johnson, aka Fantastical Fatty, is a fat joy activist, fat liberationist, and fat fitness lover. They believe fat people deserve to love their fat bodies and take up space!
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Stay Fat & Fantastic,
Lindsay 😘

01/18/24 • 37 min

Fantastical Fatty Podcast - Body Liberation through Fitness with Damali Fraiser

Transcript

This really points to something that I know you talk about as well, which is fitness as community, but fitness is also inclusivity.

And we have to make sure we understand like that inclusivity is not just somebody is included, because people can be included and still not feel like they belong. So getting past token inclusion, and really making it full community care, so that when people are there, they're included, they belong, There's equity, they feel like there's justice for their exp

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