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
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
yeah, i was gonna post a pic, but ya’ll can ruin yer own day...
Upward throwing dog
I'm afraid to!!
What are we going to do with these cultural Marxists? Eventually ignoring them won’t be enough ...they will demand some sort of kneel from us.
Yikes!
I thought yoga came from Hinduism and the Indian subcontinent. The Hindus probably think everybody else has polluted yoga, including this woman.
I wish I had heeded your warning. OMG! I’ve never seen anything so disgusting in my life. I’m about to lose my lunch.
I wonder if that includes the millions? of black women who have their hair straightened, add extensions, and even lightened?
Did Fat Albert transition?
I just had to look.
EYE BLEACH! EYE BLEACH! (forcing myself NOT to gouge out my eyes! What has been seen cannot be UN seen!
Oh, keyboar4d is now bleary!
I would be surprised if she can sit down on the floor and get back up without help, never mind do all the standard yoga positions. Can she even sit in a lotus position?
All the usual stuff:
Downward Facing Hippo
Dropped My Check
Gimme Dat
Beached Whale
Run from the Work Boots
The lotus position be racis
Ah ““body activist.” = FAT, VERY FAT
Bet *she* doesn’t think apple pie is racist.
That thing is disgusting
Why is it that so many people who shouldn’t have any self esteem seem to have too much of it?
Has any body pointed out this nitwit that yoga originated in India? Where most high cast yogis are descended from the original Indo-Aryan race, AKA white people?
“The next pose is Resting Ghettopotamus.”
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