The Body Love Festival is BACK!
Thank you for joining us in The Let’s Adventure Academy Course Library!
This video course is brought to you by The Lady Alliance Foundation – helping change the face of leadership in the outdoor industry.
The content gathered for this course was collected for our Body Love Festival 2021 and 2022, sectioned off into multiple chapters to help you through the journey of loving your body and loving your life!
With 4 incredible speakers, 5 incredible workshops, a panel, and a yoga flow focusing on loving our bodies – this festival converted to course has it all!
Huge thanks to our sponsor Jane Iredale Canada for supporting this festival. This incredible makeup brand believes in healthy skin and light makeup that is good for both the environment and our karma points. Normally only sold at clinics and spas, Unity Collective now has our own virtual shopping experience with Jane Iredale Canada – and a special 20% off their incredible makeup line!
To take advantage of this special offer, click here!
This content was available for free during our festival, and is now gated with a $5 donation. Your donation goes towards our efforts in providing scholarships for women+ in adventure, helping us change the face of leadership in the outdoors.
Just by being here, you’re helping The Lady Alliance Foundation make a difference. Our collection of free and short courses are to be enjoyed by all to help build confidence in the outdoors.
If you are able to support The Lady Alliance Foundation further through a donation, you can do so here. Every dollar helps!
We thank you for your support of our foundation, and hope you enjoy the next few lessons on knots and ropes! Don’t forget to send this course to a friend to help inspire further education in the outdoors!
Much love,
The Lady Alliance Foundation
Base Layer Insecurities and Healing the Child Within
Meet This Speaker
Kieren Britton
Kieren loves to dream of the ridiculous and make it a reality. Whether it’s cycling across Canada or converting a school bus into a full time home, there is nothing Kieren enjoy’s more than testing the limits and learning more about herself!
Growing up in the outdoors has crafted Kieren into who she is today. It’s taught her more about her capabilities than she could have ever imagined. Yet she still has hesitations, and self doubt. With insecurities present from childhood to adulthood, Kieren shares with us her non-linear journey to loving herself and how you can heal the child within.
Base Layer Insecurities and Healing the Child Within
The Expedition with Heather Geluk
Meet This Speaker
Heather Geluk
Heather’s zest for adventure reflects a love for the outdoors and an inherent sense of ‘wanderlust’. She actively uses her experiences as an adventurer climbing the highest mountains on earth – from the Himalayas to the Andes to the Alps – as opportunities to inspire others and ‘give back’. In doing so, Heather has helped raise over $500,000 in funds to support organisations in the non-for-profit sector focused on health, the environment, and education.
Achievements beyond her day job include climbing some of the highest mountains in the world. Mountains like Everest, Lhotse, Makalu, and Shishapangma (Nepal / Tibet), Aconcagua (Argentina), Alpamayo (Peru), Kilimanjaro (x5) (Tanzania), Damavand (Iran) and climbs throughout the Himalayas and the Alps are the ‘spice’ in an already impressive and extensive mountaineering CV.
Not limited to adventures closer to sea level, Heather’s also cycled over 7500kms from west to east across Canada, cycled across Tanzania, dragon boat raced down the Thames, and white water rafted throughout Nepal.
Recently Heather has opened up about her personal journey through cancer treatments, and how this new life changing expedition has shaped her life, her love for her body, and her zest for adventure.
Living Into Your Body – The Practice Of Self Love
Meet This Speaker
Palesa Koitsioe, Head Coach & Founder of Imbali Bloom Consulting.
Palesa Koitsioe (they/them) was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and migrated to the unceded, ancestral lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ territories, colonially known as Vancouver. They are Black, queer, non-binary and Tswana speaking. They have a Bachelors degree in Psychology with a specialization in Neuroscience.
At Imbali Bloom Consulting we are a hybrid of a coaching practice and a consulting one; this allows us to weave the care on an individual level and a company level. We believe that in order to change the world, we have to change ourselves first. With the amazing studies of neuroplasticity mirrored onto our social constructs; we know that it is possible to change ourselves. Our approach to this work is influenced by care, compassion, dignity reclamation practices, emotional intelligence and Cognitive Behavioural Theories.
Palesa prides themselves in their creativity and the infusion of that skill in all the work they’ve done within the Black community (locally and back home). In Vancouver they have offered workshops that help strengthen the sense of identity and self love that society strips from us everyday. They are currently accepting applications for their online group coaching program called EKHAYA (means home in IsiZulu). The program is getting ready for the next cohort of folks beginning March 2022. Palesa wants to make sure that their life story and those of others does not get erased, with that mission they started their podcast Bonolo (means kindness) as an active way of capturing stories and lessons for future generations.”
The Indigenous Doula Perspective On Loving Your Journey
Meet This Speaker:
Sage Lacerte
Sage Lacerte is Carrier from the Lake Babine Nation and has served as the Founder and CEO of the Sage Initiative since 2019. The Sage Initiative is the first Indigenous womxn`s impact investment collective that will generate a circular economy by facilitating the flow of capital from Indigenous womxn investors to Indigenous social enterprises.
Between 2018-2020, Sage has served as the National Youth Ambassador of the Moose Hide Campaign Development Society – a grassroots movement of Indigenous and non-Indigenous men and boys that works to end violence against women and children in Canada, with a particular focus on post-secondary initiatives.
Sage holds a degree from the University of Victoria in Gender Studies and has been informed by Indigenous knowledge from all her relations across Turtle Island and beyond.
Lesson 6: Confidently Authentic With Palesa
Meet This Speaker
Palesa Koitsioe, Head Coach & Founder of Imbali Bloom Consulting.
Palesa Koitsioe (they/them) was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and migrated to the unceded, ancestral lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ territories, colonially known as Vancouver. They are Black, queer, non-binary and Tswana speaking. They have a Bachelors degree in Psychology with a specialization in Neuroscience.
At Imbali Bloom Consulting we are a hybrid of a coaching practice and a consulting one; this allows us to weave the care on an individual level and a company level. We believe that in order to change the world, we have to change ourselves first. With the amazing studies of neuroplasticity mirrored onto our social constructs; we know that it is possible to change ourselves. Our approach to this work is influenced by care, compassion, dignity reclamation practices, emotional intelligence and Cognitive Behavioural Theories.
Palesa prides themselves in their creativity and the infusion of that skill in all the work they’ve done within the Black community (locally and back home). In Vancouver they have offered workshops that help strengthen the sense of identity and self love that society strips from us everyday. They are currently accepting applications for their online group coaching program called EKHAYA (means home in IsiZulu). The program is getting ready for the next cohort of folks beginning March 2022. Palesa wants to make sure that their life story and those of others does not get erased, with that mission they started their podcast Bonolo (means kindness) as an active way of capturing stories and lessons for future generations.”
Body Love Flow with Glow Yoga
Meet Our Yoga Instructor:
Krista Birch
Krista is the owner of Glow Yoga, teaching yoga in the East Kootenays. Her practice is full of love as she guides us through a body positive, body loving flow here today.
For more of Krista’s flows, check out our Glow Yoga collection in Unity Collective TV!
Enjoy This Body Love Flow with Krista From Glow Yoga
Body Love Festival 2020 – Panel Discussion
Watch the Panel from Body Love Festival 2020
Thanks to our great friends at Lunette, the following video was our first ever Body Love Film Festival. This virtual festival shares incredible people breaking down their own journey to self love, through storytelling of lived experiences.
From Lizzo to TJ, Palesa to Lea Delaria, we have some faces you may recognize on screen today, and we cannot wait to share these personal stories with you!
⚠️ Please note: Nudity, Coarse language and triggering topics are included in these discussions. For help navigating triggers, we encourage you to reach out to these hotlines: click here.
Festival topics include:
- Body Dysmorphia
- Societal and Beauty standards
- What happens when your body doesn’t perform as you would like it to
- The weight of words
- Personal period stories, and
- Overcoming
Panelists include:
Palesa Koitsioe – @iambalibloomconsulting
TJ Lucas-Box – @tjlucasbox
Tiffany Yu – @iamtiffanyyu
Azzah Ahmad – @lifeazziknowit
and our host, Kristen Ales from Wild and Weightless! – @wildandweightless
Docu-Style Films:
Mother-daughter duo, Elisa Goodkind & Lily Mandelbaum, from StyleLikeU have brought 14 incredible interviews into this festival. StyleLikeU is a platform for radically honest docu-style videos that give voice to role models who stand proudly outside of norms and are comfortable in their skin.
Let’s dive in.
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