Every Body Yoga, discusses practicing yoga daily, she doesn’t necessarily mean the sun salutations and poses that most Americans picture.
The Black plus-size yoga instructor has something more profound and personal in mind.“Yoga” itself means to “yoke,” at least in Stanley’s admittedly “American millennial translation,” and that’s where her focus is.
Finding daily ways to join the good and bad and all the intersections of life is how she brings balance to hers. Now she wants to help others do the same with a new book of essays, Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance.Even as Stanley, a queer femme, became a powerful voice in wellness culture, she never felt there was a place for her within it, and the book leans into that.“It’s addressing this.