Beverly Price, Yoga-Based Eating Disorder Recovery Programs

Beverly Price, RD, MA, E-RYT, Program Director and Founder is a nationally renowned Registered Dietitian, Exercise Physiologist and Registered Yoga Teacher who is recognized for her distinctive approach to eating disorder recovery and weight/body image issues using yoga. She is an author, newspaper columnist and national presenter. Beverly blends mindful and conscious eating with yoga in her Reconnect with Food^® personal counseling and group support programs at Inner Door Center, a Yoga-Based, Comprehensive Eating Disorder Program.

Beverly has been practicing nutrition for more than two decades, and has been in private practice since 1987. She was the nutrition program coordinator for the Department of Medicine and Department of Research, Sinai Hospital of Detroit (now Detroit Medical Center) and on staff at the Wayne State University Obesity and Risk Factor Program (now Beaumont Hospitals, "Beaumont Diet"). She also practiced at Henry Ford Hospital.

Beverly created Reconnect with Food^®, yoga and eating disorder recovery programs, to help individuals explore their relationship with food, body image and emotions while integrating an array of mind-body disciplines into their lifestyles.  She recently opened Inner Door Center to offer comprehensive programs in eating disorder recovery.

Beverly has walked in your shoes.  She struggled with her own food and body image issues from high school through her mid-20's.  Beverly has done the work needed to heal and has no secrets--she is real.  She currently has a healthy relationship with food but can relate to your pain. Beverly was also was diagnosed with Scleroderma/ Polymyositis and Mixed Connective Tissue Disease at age 27 but has been managed with Minocin (David Trentham, MD, Harvard Medical Center's protocol) along with balanced nutrition and a regular yoga practice.

She holds a current registration by the American Dietetic Association and has completed numerous traditional and holistic continuing education and training programs in eating disorder recovery.

Beverly completed her yoga teacher training with Jonny Kest, Center for Yoga Birmingham and West Bloomfield, Michigan. She is striving to help her clients and others further the mind-body-soul connection. Beverly's involvement in competitive and synchronized swimming (water ballet) has been a natural transition for her to yoga and dance arts.

Beverly is the co-author of the book, Nutrition Secrets for Optimal Health, (Tall Tree Publishing, 1996) and the author of Reconnect with Food^®...Unplugged! DVD. She has published and presented numerous abstracts and articles of research*, and has presented them at medical and nutrition conferences, including American College of Physicians and Soviet-American Nutrition Conference. Beverly is on the advisory board and a regular contributor for Clean Eating Magazine, a division of Oxygen magazine. She represents food, fitness and healthcare companies in their national PR campaigns and is featured regularly on local and national television, radio and in print.

*Beverly (Peiss) Price's Partial List of Peer Reviewed Publications and Presentations:

Yoga as a Tool for Eating Disorder Recovery, International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP) Annual Conference, July 2006.

Reconnect with Food Yoga and Eating Disorder Recovery, Midwest Yoga Conference, May 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.

Reconnect with Food Yoga and Eating Disorder Recovery, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Eastern Michigan University and Central Michigan University, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.

Peiss, B., Kurleto, E. and Rubenfire, M MD, Physicians and nurses can be effective educators in coronary risk reduction, J Gen Intern Med 10:77-81, 1995.

Impact of out-patient nutrition counseling on patient knowledge and compliance following previous counseling by physicians, nurses, and out patient dietitians.  Abstracts of the American College of Physicians 37th Annual Michigan Scientific Meeting, Traverse City, Michigan, October 1991.

Comparison of nutrition knowledge of residents versus lay patients.  Abstracts of the 73rd  Annual American Dietetic Association Conference, Denver, Colorado.  Also, presented at American College of Physicians 36th Annual Michigan Scientific Meeting, Traverse City, MI, October 1990.                                                                 

Presented:  Accuracy of body assessment using bioelectrical impedance and skinfold measurements in critically ill versus normal population. Abstracts of the American College of  Physicians 35th Annual Michigan Scientific Meeting, Traverse City, Michigan, September 1989.

Comparison of nutrition knowledge following instruction by physicians, nurses, and dietitians. Abstracts of the Soviet American Nutrition conference, Moscow and Leningrad, U.S.S.R., November 1988  Also presented at the American Dietetic Association Conference for Practice and Research, Orlando,  Florida - April, 1989.  

Presented: Comparison of moderate versus severe dietary restriction in cardiac  rehabilitation  patients. Abstracts of the 27th Annual Meeting of the American College of Nutrition, Washington D.C., September 1986.