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2021-06-12 -Great Cultural Revolution
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Yoga Instructor and 'Body Activist' Jessamyn Stanley Says White Supremacy has Polluted Yoga
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 [THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] 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
 ...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values...
and cultural appropriation in American yoga.
| Yoga is a religious meditation exercise in Indian subcontinent. Any American who is not of Indian subcontinent descent could be said to be engaging in cultural appropriation, including Ms Stanley. |
"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. 
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[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Jessamyn Stanley needs you to know what yoga is really about — and it’s not the poses.