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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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KEYWORDS: blm; hindenburg; landwhale; whitesupremacy; yoga
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To: Bullish

41 posted on 06/11/2021 11:52:14 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: White Lives Matter

yeah, i was gonna post a pic, but ya’ll can ruin yer own day...


42 posted on 06/11/2021 11:54:32 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: notaliberal

Upward throwing dog


43 posted on 06/11/2021 11:54:45 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Salamander
That’s nothing. Go watch the video.

I'm afraid to!!

44 posted on 06/11/2021 11:55:04 AM PDT by notaliberal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle,)
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To: White Lives Matter

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.


45 posted on 06/11/2021 11:56:15 AM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: Pollard

Yikes!


46 posted on 06/11/2021 11:57:45 AM PDT by White Lives Matter
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To: cuban leaf

I thought yoga came from Hinduism and the Indian subcontinent. The Hindus probably think everybody else has polluted yoga, including this woman.


47 posted on 06/11/2021 11:57:56 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: READINABLUESTATE

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.


48 posted on 06/11/2021 11:57:56 AM PDT by Jack023
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To: White Lives Matter
"cultural appropriation"

I wonder if that includes the millions? of black women who have their hair straightened, add extensions, and even lightened?

49 posted on 06/11/2021 11:59:18 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021 under Biteme.)
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To: fireman15

Did Fat Albert transition?


50 posted on 06/11/2021 12:00:22 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (LIVE FREE OR DIE)
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To: White Lives Matter

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!


51 posted on 06/11/2021 12:00:36 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: Bullish

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?


52 posted on 06/11/2021 12:01:21 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: PGR88

All the usual stuff:

Downward Facing Hippo
Dropped My Check
Gimme Dat
Beached Whale
Run from the Work Boots


53 posted on 06/11/2021 12:03:43 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Cecily

The lotus position be racis


54 posted on 06/11/2021 12:04:53 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: White Lives Matter

Ah ““body activist.” = FAT, VERY FAT


55 posted on 06/11/2021 12:06:39 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: White Lives Matter

Bet *she* doesn’t think apple pie is racist.


56 posted on 06/11/2021 12:15:34 PM PDT by twister881
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Picture in Link :

That thing is disgusting

57 posted on 06/11/2021 12:15:50 PM PDT by atc23
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To: Bullish

Why is it that so many people who shouldn’t have any self esteem seem to have too much of it?


58 posted on 06/11/2021 12:16:37 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Faith, not fear. Faith, not faintheartedness.)
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To: White Lives Matter

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?


59 posted on 06/11/2021 12:19:01 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: White Lives Matter

“The next pose is Resting Ghettopotamus.”


60 posted on 06/11/2021 12:19:39 PM PDT by twister881
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