American Plus-sized yoga instructor, body positivity advocate, and writer based in Durham, North Carolina, Jessamyn Stanley, famously known for showing off her incredible flexibility with her plus size body and promoting body positivity on Instagram has taken to the social media platform to share these unclad photos of her while writing on body positivity.
While sharing the unclad photos with other photos of her performing yoga, Jessamyn who has travelled around the world to give seminars body on positivity to her fans wrote:
"I spent many years believing that my spirituality was fully entwined with my religious beliefs. When I needed a break from religion after growing up in a deeply religious household, my spiritual condition went into a tailspin. I became skeptical of everything, even the mere concept of
spirituality. I don't know about anyone else, but the wounds created by a childhood steeped in religious doctrine are Deep. As. FUCK. My skepticism didn't magically abate at the genesis of my yoga practice. When I began practicing yoga poses regularly, I was still skeptical of the conversation that yoga necessitates with the spiritual body. I found it easier to obsess over yoga + my physical body. But maybe that's why I found yoga when I did. Maybe I'm supposed to have a sketchy relationship with spirituality. Maybe that's the gateway I need in order to have a deeper conversation with the universe as a whole. Who can say. This probably seems esoteric and random af- it is both of those things and that's ok. I am tired of pretending to be jaded- what good does it do to be jaded? I do not want to fear the esoteric. I must remain open to the mystery."
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