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Yoga Teacher Jessamyn Stanley Believes White Supremacy Has Polluted Yoga - and It's Time to Talk About It
PEOPLE ^ | June 8, 2021 | Stephanie Emma Pfeffer

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.

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 ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: antiwhite; landwhale; whitesupremacy; yoga
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I normally refrain from commenting on the physical attributes of leftists, but, um, I have doubts that this woman can even do most yoga poses.
1 posted on 06/09/2021 5:39:08 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: Stravinsky

Isn’t yoga norm from the Indian culture? These people are loons.


2 posted on 06/09/2021 5:41:02 AM PDT by ilgipper (The mob only destroys. Never creates. )
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To: Stravinsky

I had to look at the article after I read your reply and..... O__o


3 posted on 06/09/2021 5:42:13 AM PDT by Scarlett156 (MY EYES)
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To: ilgipper

Following my last post, we just need to divorce these people. Separate completely and give them the northeast and west coast. There is no saving them. They are lost and they are killing our culture and our country. We have no common ground.


4 posted on 06/09/2021 5:42:29 AM PDT by ilgipper (The mob only destroys. Never creates. )
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To: Stravinsky

OMG!!! Excuse me while I go get some bleach to wash out my eyes.

The vast majority of the most vile, disgusting, morally bankrupt an RACIST people I have ever came across were Black or Brown


5 posted on 06/09/2021 5:42:30 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Stravinsky

Isn’t it strange, white people have given away their country and the thanks they get is to be called racists.


6 posted on 06/09/2021 5:42:51 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Stravinsky

Ouch!! That’s definitely not what I imagined when I saw the phrase “Yoga Teacher.” This post requires a warning label.


7 posted on 06/09/2021 5:44:15 AM PDT by Blennos ( )
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To: Stravinsky

What is seen cannot be unseen.


8 posted on 06/09/2021 5:45:09 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Neither safety nor security exist in nature. Everything is dangerous and has risk.)
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To: ilgipper

“ We have no common ground.”

See my tag line.

L


9 posted on 06/09/2021 5:45:59 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Stravinsky

It has been 59 years since “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, the novel, and 46 years since the movie. That there was abuse in the mental institutions of the day cannot be denied. BUT why do I think that the inmates now rule the roost? She is crazy Jim!


10 posted on 06/09/2021 5:46:56 AM PDT by SES1066 (Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
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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.

In that case, the fault lies in the yoga masters that only wanted to teach those people who could afford their outrageous fees!

Or the fault lies in wealthy women wanting to stay in shape for their wealthy partners, or to regain their shape after having babies.

Or maybe it is wealthy white women caring about low impact stretching exercises and wanting to be/stay thin.

So you are jealous of white women (how many men were into yoga when it started, except to pickup chicks?) and you shall become a bitter cat lady as you age.

... and honestly I don't care because I believe that and I know it's the case,

11 posted on 06/09/2021 5:47:17 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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...and It’s Time to Talk About It

Anyone who says they want to “have a conversation” or “it’s time to talk about it”, means they’re about to launch into a lecture.


12 posted on 06/09/2021 5:48:21 AM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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Yea. "Yoga teacher"
13 posted on 06/09/2021 5:48:50 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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Sorry guys. Feel free to post some eye bleach.


14 posted on 06/09/2021 5:49:35 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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To: Stravinsky

Its a crime against humanity thatthe giant hippo that wrote the article considers wearing yoga pants.

No, lady, you’re bad at yoga bc you are 150lbs overweight.

You’re also black, not Indian. “Cultural appropriation” is dumb enough claim as it is.


15 posted on 06/09/2021 5:49:57 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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She can do all the classic yoga poses:

Downward facing hippo

Beached whale

Bull seal yelping


16 posted on 06/09/2021 5:52:44 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Blennos

Yogi Buffalo.


17 posted on 06/09/2021 5:52:48 AM PDT by Kudsman (Baby Lives Matter)
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To: Stravinsky

Gad. I had to look.

I normally don’t comment on someone’s physical appearance unless they have decided to play the race/sex/whatever card to accuse others of racism/sexism/whateverism types of things, then all things are fair game.

She is a mentally and physically unattractive, unintelligent, beached whale. If you were curious, don’t be.


18 posted on 06/09/2021 5:54:33 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: Stravinsky

Or maybe …. just maybe …. most blacks aren’t interested in yoga. Ever thought of that?


19 posted on 06/09/2021 5:54:58 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Jewbacca

Haha. The jokes write themselves on this one.


20 posted on 06/09/2021 5:55:19 AM PDT by lodi90
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