The Yoga-Kit

Use the power of yoga to discover your true needs and learn how to make space for them. You’ll learn to perceive and stay with your feelings, and to respond to them without turning to food or avoiding it.

Move beyond emotional hunger through yoga

The Yoga-Kit was created specifically for people who experience emotional hunger or disordered eating. The sequences are designed to support you in different situations, at any time of day.

Emotional eating often arises when we try to compensate for an emotion or an inner sense of emptiness or unease. A regular yoga practice can gradually help us connect more deeply with our true needs: What do I long for? Where do I want to go? What is the essence of my being?

Yoga as a doorway to our emotions

Becoming aware of our emotions helps us give our body and soul what they truly need. Often, it is not food, but something entirely different. For this reason, the Yoga-Kit includes sequences that address emotional states and offer alternatives to habitual patterns.

One sequence, for example, supports you with evening cravings. These often arise because they help us unwind after a busy day. The sequence shows you how to relax without reaching for chocolate.

What my clients say about my work

Since working with Franzi, my life has shifted by more than 180 degrees. The journey went deep very quickly – into my innermost self, my emotions, my needs, who I am, what truly matters to me, how I imagine my life, and what has been holding me back and why. Step by step, I have been able to uncover my layers, let go of external securities and dependencies, and find more and more calm, peace, and stillness within myself.

After 20 years of diet madness, I can finally say: I’m no longer trapped in emotional hunger. Eating has become normal. Meals are there to satisfy my hunger – but they’re no longer stress relief, comfort, a filler for boredom, or a reward. I’m certain that without Franzi’s valuable work and emotionalerhunger.de, I wouldn’t have reached this point. Thanks to her, I now know that the body follows naturally when mind and soul are ready – step by step.

I like to describe my work with Franziska as my very personal spin cycle. I have been struggling with eating disorders, diets, and exercise since primary school. All the therapies, including a stay in a psychiatric clinic, did not bring about what Franziska moved in just the first months of our work together, freedom and hope. I now have so much more space in my mind and in my everyday life because I am no longer constantly thinking about food, my body, or the next diet. I am not at the end of my journey yet, but what I can say with absolute certainty is that I will never go back to that whole diet madness, and I owe that to Franziska.

Through working with Franziska, I have learned a new way of eating. Little by little, I came to understand how much I had been working against my body for years. Through the coaching with Franziska, I was able to analyze the causes of my former eating behavior and my emotional hunger, and step by step learn to listen to my body again. Franziska accompanied me beautifully on this journey, asking the right questions and continuously encouraging and motivating me to keep going.

Why the Yoga-Kit stands out from your usual yoga classes

Each sequence is designed to help you connect more deeply with your body and your inner self. You can nourish both only when you understand what they truly need – without turning to food.

In addition, the sequences specifically address emotional states and situations that are often associated with emotional hunger. These include frustration, guilt and shame, as well as loneliness, self-doubt and stress.

The Yoga-Kit also includes an emergency breathing exercise for moments when the urge to eat feels overwhelming.

The Yoga-Kit for Emotional Hunger: What’s Included

Ten yoga sequences with different lengths and areas of focus. Each sequence is available as downloadable audio and as a video for streaming, depending on whether you prefer to practise with sound only or with video support.

A comprehensive workbook with practical guidance for your yoga practice and reflective questions to help you track your practice and reflect on your inner processes.

You will also receive a discount code for the beautiful yoga props from Studio Lietz. From my own experience, I know how much more supportive and enjoyable they can make your practice.

The yoga sequences are designed to be suitable for both beginners and more experienced practitioners. You’ll find longer sessions of up to 60 minutes as well as short, focused sequences of up to 7 minutes.

The level of intensity also varies between dynamic and restorative sessions. This allows you to choose how to practise on any given day, depending on your energy level and personal fitness.

The workbook also offers valuable guidance for practising yoga in larger bodies. In addition, you’ll find practical tips on how to support yourself using professional props as well as everyday items such as cushions, blankets and books.

Yoga-Kit

Includes ten audio and video sequences as well as a comprehensive workbook.

€ 239,–

Yoga Sequences for all levels and all bodies

Yoga sequences for all levels and all bodies

The Individual Sequences at a Glance

The Yoga-Kit is designed to include a variety of sessions that address specific emotional states – states that people experiencing emotional hunger know well and often respond to through eating. The sequences reflect the breadth of my work and serve as an invitation to connect more deeply with yourself.

SEQUENCE 1

Morning Routine for Greater Connection

Duration: 21–32 minutes, depending on the version

A gently dynamic flow that helps you start your day with intention rather than on autopilot. Instead, you take a moment to pause and become aware of your needs. This allows you to keep them in mind throughout the day and respond more mindfully. By offering yourself this attention, you reduce the likelihood of compensating for a lack of care with food and begin your day with greater clarity and a deeper sense of connection to yourself.

SEQUENCE 2

Kickstart: Your Practice for In-Between Moments

Duration: 7 minutes

A short, focused flow for busy days when there’s little time for a longer yoga practice. This practice supports you in meeting stressful moments, which are often a common trigger for emotional eating, with greater ease and relaxation.

SEQUENCE 3

Yin Yoga: Turning Inward

Duration: 45 minutes

A gentle yin yoga session that allows you to explore the boundaries of your body in a mindful and compassionate way. For many people experiencing emotional hunger, it can be challenging to stay with moments of stillness without filling them with food. The intention of this session is to consciously practise being with stillness.

SEQUENCE 4

Evening Routine: From Doing to Being

Duration: 25 minutes

A combination of a slow flow and calming yin yoga that supports you in transitioning from the active to the more passive part of the day. This is a transition many people often try to ease through eating, at least seemingly. The session offers a nourishing alternative.

SEQUENCE 5

Kosha Meditation: A Journey Through the Layers of Your Being

Duration: 15 minutes

Working with the koshas is the common thread that runs through all of my work. By becoming aware of these different layers of our being, we can gradually build a deeper connection to our inner core and our true needs. This is the most important step in resolving emotional hunger.

SEQUENCE 6

The Rise and Fall of Emotional Eating Urges

Duration: 50 minutes

This intuitive and gentle flow is the core sequence of emotional hunger. It is designed to allow you to experience on the mat a similar progression of frustration to that of emotional eating urges. The pressure gradually builds to a peak and then slowly subsides, a process that in everyday life is often relieved through eating. This sequence helps you strengthen your personal tolerance for frustration and shows you that there are alternatives to food in such moments.

SEQUENCE 7

Post – Binge Praxis: Your Yoga After Emotional Eating

Duration: 15 minutes

After emotional eating, we often feel unwell, both physically and mentally. This session supports you in meeting the moment after overeating with greater acceptance. By doing so, it becomes easier to move out of difficult emotions that often form the basis for further urges to eat. The practice combines restorative yoga with targeted breathing exercises.

SEQUENCE 8

A Compassionate Practice for Moments of Loneliness and Self-Doubt

Duration: 25 minutes

Loneliness and self-doubt often trigger emotional eating. We want to get rid of these uncomfortable feelings and try to do so through food. In this sequence, you are invited to fully relax and gently ease the emotions that are present. The practice focuses on gentle, floor-based yoga.

SEQUENCE 9

A Dynamic Session for Greater Mental Clarity

Duration: 45 minutes

Practise this dynamic and energising session when your thoughts keep racing and food seems like the only way to stop them. The sequence consciously combines movement and breath, making it easier for the mind to disengage from repetitive thinking.

SEQUENCE 10

Breathing Exercise for Emotional Eating Urges

Duration: individual

Consider this session an emergency support for moments when the urge to eat feels overwhelming. It is not a miracle solution, but it can help soften the intensity.

FAQs about the Yoga-Kit

I have little or no experience with yoga. Is the Yoga-Kit still right for me?

Absolutely. The yoga sequences are designed to be accessible to beginners as well as experienced practitioners. The workbook includes tips on using props so you can adjust each practice to your own needs and level.

How often should I practise the yoga sessions?

I don’t believe in recommending a fixed schedule. What matters more is finding your own rhythm, one that fits naturally into your life and daily routine. Feel free to start with fewer sessions and gradually increase the frequency over time.

Are the sequences also suitable for practitioners in larger bodies?

It is important to me that the yoga sessions are accessible to all people. For this reason, most of the postures are suitable for practitioners in larger bodies. At the same time, it always depends on your individual range of movement. Especially in the more dynamic sequences, you may find it helpful to choose alternative options.

The workbook provides practical tips and variations to support you in your practice, including options that are not explicitly guided in the videos. If you are unsure, please feel free to contact me.

I am currently in therapy for an eating disorder or working with you in psychological coaching. Can I practise the yoga sequences alongside this, or could that be counterproductive?

The Yoga-Kit can be a supportive complement to therapeutic work. The sequences help shift awareness from the mind into the body, supporting embodied experience alongside cognitive approaches. If you are already working with me in coaching, the yoga sessions can help you practise and integrate my method in a more experiential way.

Yoga was key to my healing journey

Before discovering yoga, I struggled with different forms of eating disorders and explored many therapeutic approaches. It was only when a holistic yoga practice became part of my healing journey that I was able to move beyond emotional hunger.

Since 2015, I have been supporting people on their individual paths out of disordered eating. Drawing on my combined expertise as a psychologist and yoga teacher, I work at the core of emotional hunger and support lasting change.