Yoga Teacher Believes White Supremacy Has Polluted Yoga

[JCSR]

Pic below link.......warning it's not pretty
https://news.yahoo.com/yoga-teacher-jessamyn-stanley-believes-183415616.html

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[BigRed]

REPORTED

 

[JCSR]

REPORTED

I gave you fair warning !

 

[BigRed]

Calls herself a "body activist"

That must be the new term for "roll it in flour to find the spot".

 

[BiscuitsandGravy]

 

[BiscuitsandGravy]

www.amazon.com/Yoke-Yoga-Self-Acceptance-Jessamyn-Stanley/dp/1523505214

 

[BigRed]

From the article....

"In Yoke - which means yoga in Sanskrit"

In English, yoke is what you use to connect an ox to a plow. The English definition seems more appropriate in this case.

 

[tv1217]

Quick, someone bring it Solo and the Wookiee

 

[churchmouse]

Oh for crap sake...............

 

[Jaybird1980]

 

[d.kaufman]

 

[DadSmith]

after seeing this I rushed over to the women with guns thread it helped.

 

[IUKalash429]

Not giving Yahoo a click, but I imagine anyone resembling her has about the same legitimate roots to the creation of yoga as any white Carmelite soccer mom. And those moms I'm thinking of are in helluva better shape.

 

[JettaKnight]

I haven't seen something like that since I saw my girl Lizzo in concert (I'll refrain from posting pictures).

Not giving Yahoo a click, but I imagine anyone resembling her has about the same legitimate roots to the creation of yoga as any white Carmelite soccer mom. And those moms I'm thinking of are in helluva better shape.

Yeah, I can't be bothered either, but you're right - Yoga went from a religion to a banal exercise. Meh, whatever.

 

[Karl-just-Karl]

From the article (I was brave enough to read it): "Stanley has been nurturing this self-awareness in the nearly 10 years since she has been breaking barriers in the yoga world, tackling topics like fat-shaming, her queer Black identity and unattainable beauty standards."

"I wanted to reflect on what it is to practice yoga when we are as a society being forced to reckon with the long, deep, systemic, down-to-the-bone problems. We're being forced to look at things that we've never wanted to look at. And that's all that yoga is, is looking at the things that you don't want to look at. And ultimately, come hell or high water, accepting them."

So it really isn't about Yoga at all...maybe it is Woga...Woka...Wokeness? The usage of the term Yoke is no accident I am certain.

Maybe it is about her inability to deal with her mental and physical condition and methodologies of sexual gratification?

Summary; it is all the fault of White people.

 

[wtburnette]

I love how the racists have no problems outing themselves nowadays.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

"We're being forced to look at things that we've never wanted to look at."

Funny, that's exactly what I was thinking!

 

[KG1]

Funny, that's exactly what I was thinking!

They like to get In your face.

 

[IndyDave1776]

After seeing you all traumatized by Jabba the Hutt doing yoga, I am here to rescue you!

 

[JettaKnight]

Maybe i should post those pictures of Lizzo to balance out the skinny girls.