Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance
By: Jessamyn Stanley
4.19
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Funny, thoughtful, inspiring, and deeply personal essays about yoga, wellness, and life from author…
Want to Read $ 10.99"I don’t know where all of this leaves us, but I do know that cultural appropriation is not a requirement of practicing American yoga. Yoga will lead you back to your own native culture every time. If you’re really reckoning with the light and dark within yourself, if you’re really doing the work of yoking, you will always end up reckoning with the White supremacy that lives inside of you. It’s impossible to hide from the truth forever. There’s no easy solution to any of this conflict, and I think that’s okay. I don’t think you need to find a solution. I think you just have to observe everything that’s here, even the parts you don’t like. I don’t think there’s an answer that’s not gonna piss off somebody. But I think that’s where Acceptance comes in. Your only real option is to just accept the reality of all this. Don’t try to change it. Don’t try to rationalize it. Don’t try to fix it. Just accept it. Then we can all move forward together. [...]Don’t waste time on self-flagellation - learn from your mistakes and move forward. (p.108-9)"-Jessamyn Stanley, Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance
"I don’t know where all of this leaves us, but I do know that cultural appropriation is not a requirement of practicing American yoga. Yoga will lead you back to your own native culture every time. If you’re really reckoning with the light and dark within yourself, if you’re really doing the work of yoking, you will always end up reckoning with the White supremacy that lives inside of you. It’s impossible to hide from the truth forever. There’s no easy solution to any of this conflict, and I think that’s okay. I don’t think you need to find a solution. I think you just have to observe everything that’s here, even the parts you don’t like. I don’t think there’s an answer that’s not gonna piss off somebody. But I think that’s where Acceptance comes in. Your only real option is to just accept the reality of all this. Don’t try to change it. Don’t try to rationalize it. Don’t try to fix it. Just accept it. Then we can all move forward together. [...]Don’t waste time on self-flagellation - learn from your mistakes and move forward. (p.108-9)"-Jessamyn Stanley, Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance
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Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
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2. The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice
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Format: None pages, Paperback
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Format: 270 pages, Paperback
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By: Judith Hanson Lasater
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8. Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance
By: Jessamyn Stanley
4.19
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Funny, thoughtful, inspiring, and deeply personal essays about yoga, wellness, and life from author… read more
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"I don’t know where all of this leaves us, but I do know that cultural appropriation is not a requirement of practicing American yoga. Yoga will lead you back to your own native culture every time. If…"-Jessamyn Stanley, Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance
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4.33
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
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"There is gorgeous potential and heinous instinct in us all."-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
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"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
12. Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)
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13. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
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4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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3.86
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20. Decolonizing Wellness
By: Dalia Kinsey
4.04
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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