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Black Yoga Instructor and ‘Body Activist’ Jessamyn Stanley Says White Supremacy has Polluted Yoga
GP ^ | June 10, 2021 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 06/11/2021 11:30:15 AM PDT by White Lives Matter

Jessamyn Stanley is a yoga instructor and “body activist.”

Jessamyn is making headlines for some reason after blaming white supremacy for polluting yoga.

Seriously. This happened.

PEOPLE reported:

Jessamyn Stanley needs you to know what yoga is really about – and it’s not the poses.

In her new book Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance, the yoga instructor and body activist shares reflective personal essays that touch upon everything from racism to the cultural appropriation of American yoga, from consumerism to cannabis.

And while the timing couldn’t be better considering the current cultural climate, the idea for the book came to her years ago while she was writing her first book, Every Body Yoga, a guide to developing a yoga practice.

“I realized yoga is a lot more than postures,” she tells PEOPLE. “The postures get to be more complicated, not because you’re practicing harder gymnastics or physical postures, but because you’re practicing emotional and mental and really spiritual postures.”…

…The book explores the existence of white supremacy and cultural appropriation in American yoga. “I would venture to say that everything in our collective society is rooted in white supremacy. I

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1 posted on 06/11/2021 11:30:15 AM PDT by White Lives Matter
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To: White Lives Matter

Wants Yoga to get back to its African roots, apparently.


2 posted on 06/11/2021 11:32:30 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: White Lives Matter

Wait ... so black people practicing yoga isn’t cultural appropriation? Only whites can engage in cultural appropriation?


3 posted on 06/11/2021 11:36:22 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: White Lives Matter

>>> Warning! Picture in link. <<<

LOL!


4 posted on 06/11/2021 11:36:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: White Lives Matter

If it wasn’t for White Women there would be no Yoga , maybe this one can’t get anyone to go to her Hippo Yoga


5 posted on 06/11/2021 11:36:53 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: White Lives Matter

It’s not about the poses because she can’t do the poses?


6 posted on 06/11/2021 11:36:54 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Polls are no longer designed to measure public sentiment but to influence it.)
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To: cuban leaf

Africans invented yoga right before they built the pyramids and created Greek philosophy.


7 posted on 06/11/2021 11:37:10 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: White Lives Matter

Well just who invented Yoga?


8 posted on 06/11/2021 11:37:47 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;pag)
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To: cuban leaf

Authentic African Yoga!


9 posted on 06/11/2021 11:37:48 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: White Lives Matter

Has the introduction of goats polluted yoga?


10 posted on 06/11/2021 11:37:50 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: White Lives Matter

I am morbidly curious to see what sort of Yoga she is capable of.


11 posted on 06/11/2021 11:37:55 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: White Lives Matter

You need a more intense warning!


12 posted on 06/11/2021 11:38:01 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: White Lives Matter

Jessamyn assumes her signature pose: Downward Lying Racist .


13 posted on 06/11/2021 11:38:02 AM PDT by PTBAA
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How could someone that fat possibly be a yoga instructor?


14 posted on 06/11/2021 11:38:07 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: PGR88

Lip Yoga!


15 posted on 06/11/2021 11:40:29 AM PDT by White Lives Matter
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Hipposwami Yogi or gravy tank? It’s hard to tell.


16 posted on 06/11/2021 11:40:54 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: White Lives Matter

Jessamyn has polluted that bench she’s sitting on.


17 posted on 06/11/2021 11:41:10 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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“Warning! Picture in link.”

Please, heed the warning!


18 posted on 06/11/2021 11:41:32 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (CENSORSHIP = VIOLENCE)
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To: White Lives Matter

Look. I’ve been to yoga and there usually a lot of farting done during sessions, if the pollution is woman-fart... you would to have to address the issue at the source. And as for the illumination this article brings to the open for a good airing...

thank you, from the heart of my bottom.


19 posted on 06/11/2021 11:41:37 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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Jessamyn Stanley is so morbidly obese that her attempts at yoga should properly be called “hog rolling”.


20 posted on 06/11/2021 11:42:04 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic )
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