Hello, and welcome to another episode of I Way with Jimmy Lijmille. I hope you're well.

And if you're not, then you might feel better after listening to this episode,

because my guest is so fantastic and affirming and kind and warm and smart.

I'm talking about Jessamyn Stanley, who is a yoga instructor, a hugely popular yoga instructor

on Instagram, who I found because a lot of people, especially in the fat liberation space,

would tell me to check out her amazing work. And she did not disappoint. She's truly incredible.

She is someone who is larger than the average yoga instructor you will see in mainstream

modern culture, because it's inherently racist and fat phobic and hugely, hugely problematic

and exclusionary. She is breaking the barriers that need to be broken to make sure that everyone feels

as though they have a right to move their bodies. They have a right to enjoy their bodies. They

have a right to practice meditation and spirituality and yoga. And nobody gets to tell you what you are

or not capable of. She's an activist in that space. She's a life coach, I guess unintentionally.

It's not really anything that she planned on this path. And yet it's where she's ended up and

she's changing the lives of truly hundreds of thousands of people. She's been on magazine covers.

She has two books out. One of them is called Yoke, my yoga of self-acceptance, which is available now.

And we talk about her journey with her body, which hasn't always been full of acceptance. And we

talk about her journey with her mental health. And we also talk about weed, which I really enjoyed

as someone who has been helped by weed in the past, which I'm really spoken about, not that it

should be something that one is embarrassed of. I guess it just didn't really come up.

Anyway, I fucking love Jessamon. And I'm so excited for you to get to know her and to love her to

follow her on Instagram, follow her anywhere you can, follow her teachings and listen to her words

with such intention and try to take them with you into your everyday life. Because in doing so,

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