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Author:
Jessamyn Stanley
Publisher:
Workman Publishing Company
Date:
June 22, 2021
Personal essays about yoga, wellness, and life from author of Every Body Yoga.
What The Reviewers Say
... brash (with salty language aplenty), outspoken, funny, insightful, honest and occasionally spiced with dashes of self-deprecating melodrama.
Yoga teacher and artist Stanley continues to inspire audiences with her charm, elegance, honesty, and intelligence. Writing in a straightforward, unapologetic tone that will make readers laugh and feel heard, Stanley explains the history of yoga, the differences between American and classical yoga, and the American yoga industry and its problematic issues, such as cultural appropriation. Stanley teaches readers the yoga of everyday life, which offers flexibility and strength through life’s difficulties.
... reads like a conversation with a friend; a friend who drags you to yoga class and calls you out when your negative self-talk functions as microaggression.
