How to Get a Yoga Body with Jessamyn Stanley
Unladylike
Unladylike Media
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
When you scroll through yoga icon Jessamyn Stanley's Instagram feed, you'll see images that look pretty different from the average 'yoga' google image results. Today, Jessamyn gets real about how she embraced her yoga body and claimed space on the mat as a fat, black woman. Plus Cristen and Caroline unpack the yoga claptrap to trace the roots of yoga's whitewashed image problem back to it's unladylike source.
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| 0:00.0 | I don't feel brave. |
| 0:08.8 | And often whenever people say like, you're so brave, my knee jerk reaction to that is like, |
| 0:16.8 | what am I brave? |
| 0:17.8 | Like how am I brave? |
| 0:19.3 | Is it brave to like be fat and naked on the internet? |
| 0:24.3 | Hey y'all and welcome to Unladylike, where we find out what happens when women break |
| 0:46.0 | the rules. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm Caroline and I'm Kristen. |
| 0:48.9 | And today we're talking about yoga with the amazing woman you heard at the top. |
| 0:53.1 | My name is Jessman Stanley. |
| 0:55.1 | I'm a yoga teacher. |
| 0:56.6 | I'm a writer. |
| 0:57.6 | I'm the author of Everybody Yoga, Let Go A Fear, Get On The Matt, Love Your Body. |
| 1:03.2 | And I'm the host of the Stitcher Premium Podcast. |
| 1:07.1 | Jessman explains it all. |
| 1:08.4 | And Jessman isn't just a yoga teacher, Caroline. |
| 1:10.6 | She's an amazing yoga teacher. |
| 1:13.4 | She travels all over the country, teaching half a style classes. |
| 1:16.9 | And she's also got classes available online. |
| 1:19.4 | And that's where this little gal learned to do the molossinopos, which I like to call |
| 1:23.6 | the poop squad, even though no pooping is involved. |
| 1:27.9 | Most of the time. |
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