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Body-Positivity Advocate Jessamyn Stanley: Yoga Isn’t Just for “One Type of Person”
By Halley Bondy — 2019
Right now, yoga is “marketed toward thin, white, affluent people. That’s such a small percentage of who exists, and it’s not the group of people who need yoga the most,” says Stanley.
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