Posted on 06/09/2021 5:39:08 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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.
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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 am sure there are many people who would disagree with that, and honestly I don't care because I believe that and I know it's the case," she says.
"I think that we see it show up in a lot of different ways. In the same way it's everywhere else and it has polluted everything else, it's polluted yoga. It's very much a part of how yoga has spread in America. The popularity of yoga really came down to wealthy white people wanting to learn and explore in a very specific way, and that's why yoga has been so white for so long in America."
(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...
They have too much time on their hands.
Picky Feely people must live a picky feely life.
She is an ugly blimp. She must do yoga by the all you can eat buffet table.
Geesh this article is a joke.
That’s funny because my Asian dil does poses extremely well without acknowledging the religious aspects.
Let us consider what authentically white yoga would involve. A pose called the “Keg Stand?” “Cast for Bass?” “Bowl for a Strike?”
Give them nothing! They hate America? THEY can leave! Go find a place not filled with “white supremacy”. I’ve lived around the world. If they try other lands, they will LEARN what racism really is!
How about ‘The Cracka Curl”.
“Stanley has been nurturing this self-awareness in the nearly 10 years since she has been breaking barriers in the yoga world, tackling topics like fat-shaming, her queer Black identity and unattainable beauty standards.”
Heart disease is racist because blacks make bad self-care decisions.
White people invented that obviously super strong stool she is relying on.
she must be Hillary’s yoga teacher!!!! all those yoga emails make sense now.
More like Yogi teacher. One who never saw a picnic basket she didn’t like. Wonder where her side-kick Boo-Boo is?
WHALE ON THE BEACH!
“White people invented that obviously super strong stool she is relying on.”
Somewhere... there is a carpenter who is extremely proud of his work.
These people are GREEN with ENVY.
WTF is a body activist ?
This black lady is doing Indian appropriation while condemning us white folk!-) Maybe she should segregate herself and her acolytes and not worry so much about white Indian appropriation:-)
Can you imagine if you signed up for a yoga class, sight unseen, and saw this when you arrived? One can only imagine the course description that people fell into:
"This yoga class integrates the principles of yoga
with rejection of cis-gender norms, racial injustices,
cultural appropriations, and colonial oppressions.
As the instructor will demonstrate, you will be
able to re-imagine yourself according to your
own norms
or the norms of any group you wish to belong to.
There are no refunds for this course."
As the lithe, intellectually stunted leftist women file in, their first reaction will be predictable: "What? How is she supposed to teach me yoga?"
Of course, the answer is...she isn't supposed to teach them "yoga". She is supposed to teach them "social justice" and self-hate, while taking their white privilege cash.
Everyone wins all around.
Her body looks over active to me:-)
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