Yoga instructor?!
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 ...
If I signed up for her class, I’d take one look at her and realize she would have nothing to teach me about yoga and I’d leave.
Really.
I lived in Germany for two years and met people from other countries and I will tell your right now: they do not like blacks.
Yoga instructor?!
She looks like she ate Stacey Abrams!
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