She is the founder of The Underbelly, an inclusive wellness community and streaming app, cohost of the podcast Dear Jessamyn, and cofounder of We Go High, a North Carolina based cannabis justice initiative. Jessamyn Stanley is the author of Every Body Yoga and Yoke and an internationally acclaimed voice in wellness, highly sought after for her insights on 21st-century yoga and intersectional identity. And reveals what she calls her own “whole-ass problematic” Growing up Baháí, loving astrology, learning to meditate, finding prana in music.Īnd in the end, Jessamyn invites every reader to find the authentic spirit of yoke–linking that good and that bad, that light and that dark. She questions why the Western take on yoga so often misses–or misuses–the tradition’s spiritual dimension.

She calls out an American yoga complex that prefers debating the merits of cotton versus polyblend leggings rather than owning up to its overwhelming Whiteness. In a series of deeply honest, funny autobiographical essays, Jessamyn explores everything from imposter syndrome to cannabis to why it’s a full-time job loving yourself, all through the lens of yoke. This larger idea of “yoke” is what Jessamyn Stanley calls the yoga of the everyday–a yoga that is not just about perfecting your downward dog but about applying the hard lessons learned on the mat to the even harder daily project of living. In Sanskrit, yoga means to “yoke.” To yoke mind and body, movement and breath, light and dark, the good and the bad.

Register for this free Crowdcast event here!įinding self-acceptance both on and off the mat. In this collection of uplifting, honest, wise, and often funny essays, Stanley navigates the spiritual, sexual, and racial intersections of her yoga-filled life.” -Juj, Bookshop bookseller “Beloved body-positive yogi Jessamyn Stanley speaks on the everyday trials of self-love and spiritual upkeep in Yoke, her follow-up to Every Body Yoga, which gained her a huge Internet following of those who resonate with her wellness-based practice. Stanley will be in conversation with the amazing Nicole Steward of Love Ethic Yoga. VIRTUAL EVENT: Bestselling author and staff favorite Jessamyn Stanley ( Every Body Yoga) will join us online to discuss her new book, Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance, available to order below.

Yoke by Jessamyn Stanley