‘They ARE going to stare at you’: Plus-size yoga teacher urges curvy women to fight skinny stereotypes and embrace the yogi lifestyle no matter what their shape or size
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Not super skinny? No problem. One North Carolina woman wants people of all shapes and sizes to know that they can still reap the benefits of doing yoga.
Jessamyn Stanley, 27, recognizes that she doesn’t have the typical body type most people might picture when they think of a yoga teacher – but that doesn’t stop her. Rather, she says, it makes her all the more unique.
And now, having amassed such a strong following on social media, Jessamyn wants to empower others who may not have waifish physiques to follow suit, taking up the flexible exercise practice and asking themselves, ‘How do I feel?’ instead of: ‘How do I look?’
While she is now a certified yoga teacher, Jessamyn wasn’t always so keen on the yogi lifestyle. When her aunt first introduced her to Bikram yoga, sometimes known as hot yoga, as a high school student, the unhappy teen hated it – and became what she describes on her website as ‘staunchly anti-yoga’.
But things changed when she went on to graduate school, where a friend convinced her to take advantage of a Groupon offer that afforded her one-month access to another Bikram yoga studio.
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