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She also reminds us that admiring someone and comparing yourself to them are two very different things.
As a society, it feels like we've always been led to believe that there's a 'one size fits all' attitude to beauty which discriminates against anyone who might be outside the 'ideal' dimensions. Of course it's important to be healthy, but it's only that that should be important: not somebody's waist size.
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Plus-size yoga guru Jessamyn Stanley describes herself as a 'fat femme
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Jessamyn Stanley + Fat Yoga: Moving Beyond Body Positivity
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Plus-size yoga guru Jessamyn Stanley describes herself as a 'fat femme
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Body-positivity advocate Jessamyn Stanley: Yoga isn't just for 'one type of person
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Try These 12 Yoga Poses to Relieve Gas — Fast
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Jessamyn Stanley Is Changing The Yoga World, One Pose At A Time
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How This “Fat Femme” Yoga Instructor Is Reshaping The $3 Trillion Well
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Jessamyn Stanley, The Root 100 Most Influential African Americans 2020
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Wellness Founder Jessamyn Stanley Found A Way To Create A Yoga
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I am all about inspiring women to be themselves' - US yoga teacher and author on her visit to South Africa
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Plus-size yoga teacher Jessamyn Stanley is Instagram hit
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This incredible yoga teacher is challenging the idea that a 'plus-size' body is unhealthy, indy100
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