Chelsea Roff

Chelsea Roff is founder and director of Eat Breathe Thrive™, a non­profit organization that prevents and helps individuals overcome disordered eating and negative body image. An internationally recognized author, speaker, and yoga teacher, Chelsea has spent nearly a decade developing integrative programs for people with mental health challenges. Her work has been showcased by Good Morning America, the TODAY show, and Sanjay Gupta on CNN.

For the past seven years, Chelsea has been developing integrative mental health programs to prevent and help individuals fully recover from food and body image issues. She works in partnership with researchers to conduct an evidence­-based study on yoga as a complementary treatment for eating disorders.

Chelsea is known for her intelligent, inspiring, and tell­it­like­it­is teaching style, and for weaving together profound personal experiences with her scientific background to deliver deeply moving insights. After nearly losing her life to anorexia and a subsequent stroke when she was 15, she has became a national advocate for yoga and community -based mental health interventions.

Prior to her work in mental health advocacy, Chelsea worked as a researcher in a psychoneuroimmunology laboratory. Her research focused on how stress affects emotional health and on how mind­-body practices like yoga can improve the outcome of chronic immune diseases like HIV/AIDS and cancer.

Chelsea was recently featured in a “viral” YouTube video that received over 20 million views.