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 ...
Her yogi was Yogi Bear ! He taught her the Dharma of picnic baskets!
Maybe she mixed up yoga with yogurt and not the fat free kind.
The herd of ghettopotami is a large multitude.
She also has a fairly severe case of Golden Corral syndrome.
There goes my lucky charms
Oh my! They don’t make yoga outfits in her size.
Those yoga goats need reparations. Where are their living wage paychecks. It’s slavery.
Yoga can’t catch a break it seems. Cultural appropriation? I read somewhere on FR that yoga is the work of Satan.
Who knew the path to inner peace was a characteristic of white supremacy? Or a ticket to hell?
LOL...ah nostalgia
Instead of someone capitalizing on it, by changing it to market it to Americans.
Some people see racism and cultural appropriation where there is none.
Yoga isn’t about black people either
Exactly zero times have I thought my wife was racists for wearing yoga pants. LOL
When you are a giant sack of gravy as disgusting as this failure of a ghastly woman is, scream “white supremacy” and get free advertising. White supremacy caused her to be raised in a nation that had such an abundance of food she took full advantage of it.
Another fat ABW. News at 11.
Some people live at a level of self-delusion that can never be penetrated...
I don't care who you are Jessamyn, that's funny right there.
Hey Jessamyn, try appropriating THIS!
So the wealthy white people who embraced Yoga are White Supremacists? The KKK breathes a sigh of relief they weren’t included in this screed. I think this indicates limousine liberals are racists.
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