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-Great Cultural Revolution

Yoga Instructor and 'Body Activist' Jessamyn Stanley Says White Supremacy has Polluted Yoga

2021-06-12

[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.

Posted by:Fred

#15 ^ 😃

Posted by: Dron66046 2021-06-12 23:53

#14 There lived by the Ganges a yogi
Who gobbled an infinite hoagie.
He ate and he shit,
Growing ever more fit,
And his pyre was unusually smoky.

Posted by: Jeremiah de Medici9220 2021-06-12 23:47

#13 Two tons of funk.

Posted by: Butch Crilet2385 2021-06-12 20:50

#12 Forget the 'tank', we're in the age of the blimps and dirigibles here.

Posted by: Nero 2021-06-12 20:48

#11 This has to be Stacey Abrams sister

Posted by: Chris 2021-06-12 13:35

#10 "First pose..is Downward Walrus"

That there is a winner!

Posted by: SteveS 2021-06-12 12:57

#9 Never did anything athletic and abused my body for years.

I'm not an instant yoga master.

Somebody else's fault.

But go ahead, make a buck selling the stereotype Blacks can't handle their emotions.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-06-12 12:54

#8 She is to yoga what crabgrass is to good lawn care.

Posted by: Raj 2021-06-12 12:36

#7 Young Children
Alcohol
Yoga Pants

Things which do not lie.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-06-12 12:06

#6 I wish I could go back in time just ten minutes so I could not see that picture.

Posted by: Matt 2021-06-12 10:15

#5 "First pose..is Downward Walrus"

Posted by: Frank G 2021-06-12 09:53

#4 Actually, I think a healthy beluga has a better BMI...

Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-06-12 09:27

#3 cultural appropriation ... white supremacy ... systemic racism
cultural appropriation ... white supremacy ... systemic racism
cultural appropriation ... white supremacy ... systemic racism
cultural appropriation ... white supremacy ... systemic racism
cultural appropriation ... white supremacy ... systemic racism
cultural appropriation ... white supremacy ... systemic racism

Oh just GTFO you Wakandan beluga-blubber blob of shit

Posted by: Glinesing Glolush1271 2021-06-12 08:39

Posted by: Dron66046 2021-06-12 04:22

#1 Not much “active” in this “activist”

Posted by: Grunter 2021-06-12 04:14

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