ep. 3: How to Get a Yoga Body with Jessamyn Stanley
photo: Jessamyn Stanley
Body-positive yoga icon Jessamyn Stanley shares her journey to finding her yoga body and claiming her space on the mat as a fat, queer, black woman. Cristen and Caroline also unpack the claptrap of why yoga has become an aspirational whitewashed lifestyle and what that means for the women who need yoga the most.
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Programs bringing yoga to incarcerated women and men
Sources
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