![]() ![]() ![]() Her first book, Every Body Yoga, a beginner’s guide to getting into yoga for all body types, was released in 2017. Jessamyn, who lives in Durham, North Carolina, with her two partners and their pets, now teaches the compassion that connected her to yoga in different ways. After completing the course, she began teaching online and soon launched The Underbelly, a wellness community where people could connect, tune into classes and learn to be well in their own way. During YTT, I really came to understand why there have to be so many yoga teachers,’ she explains. ‘Before YTT, I thought of my practice as something relatively superficial that I just did. ‘I was so confused, because I was like: there are literally thousands of yoga teachers! You can’t spit without finding one,’ she says, laughing.Īfter a while, Jessamyn relented, embarking on a yoga teacher training (YTT) course. Then a graduate student, Jessamyn had no aspirations to teach, but when she started to post on Instagram, fans begged her to start. ![]() It was a very alienating experience for me,’ she says.īut she found that it ‘opened a lot of mental and emotional doors’. Not only was it hard, but I was often also the only fat person and the only black person. ‘Everything about it seemed completely impossible to me. Years later, when a friend suggested she try again, she was reticent. ![]() When Jessamyn Stanley first tried yoga, she hated it. ![]()
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