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Yoke

My Yoga of Self-Acceptance

Jessamyn Stanley

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Workman Adult
13 October 2021
Jessamyn Stanley’s first book, Every Body Yoga, with 59,000 copies in print, taught us how to do yoga. Now, in Yoke, she tells us why. Writing about what she calls the yoga of the everyday – which is not just about poses but about applying the hard lessons we learn on the mat to the even harder daily project of living –Yoke presents a series of deeply honest, funny, gritty, thoughtful, and largely autobiographical essays that explores the issues of race, self-love, capitalism, sex and sexuality, cannabis, and more.

Drawing its name from a literal translation of the Sanskrit root “yuj,” from which the word “yoga” derives, Yoke, invites every reader to find their own authentic “yoga of the everyday,” and learn to handle life’s toughest moments with the same flexibility, strength, grounding energy, and core awareness found in a headstand or Tadasana or cobra pose. 

 

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Imprint:   Workman Adult
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 190mm,  Width: 124mm,  Spine: 14mm
Weight:   260g
ISBN:   9781523505210
ISBN 10:   1523505214
Pages:   208
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product

Jesssamyn Stanley is the author of Every Body Yoga and Yoke and an internationally acclaimed voice in wellness, highly sought after for her insights on 21st-century yoga and intersectional identity. She is the founder of The Underbelly, an inclusive wellness community and streaming app, cohost of the podcast Dear Jessamyn, and cofounder of We Go High, a North Carolina based cannabis justice initiative. She is a regular contributor to SELF magazine and has been featured in the New York Times, Vogue, and Sports Illustrated. 

Reviews for Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance

Jessamyn Stanley is the yogi we all needed--her perspectives are equal parts hilariously real and starkly insightful; I never knew I'd learn so much about myself while laughing so hard. --Tess Holiday, model and author of The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl Jessamyn speaks unapologetically from her heart and gives the reader permission to do the same. --Adriene Mishler, founder of Yoga with Adriene and Find What Feels Good Read this book. It will bring you back home to you. Yoke is powerfully honest, but above all it's a book that will remind you of your own ability to yoke; to untie; to arrive at that centered place inside where all the pieces of you fit together. --Rachel Brathen, author of Yoga Girl and founder of yogagirl.com Jessamyn's voice is the wake-up call we all need: irreverent, insightful, brutally honest, and straight-up funny. Stanley encourages us to peel back those layers, unlearn what we've been taught, and give ourselves the freedom to become who we were always meant to be. --Kathryn Budig, author of Aim True and cohost of Free Cookies Jessamyn Stanley is that rare combination of radical honesty, deep empathy, expertise, and an unwavering dedication to her craft. Yoke is the antidote to fluffy self-help culture that, at its core, is anything but healing. There is no wellness without realness, and Jessamyn never strays from her center. In turn, she helps to root us deeply within our own. This book, like its author, is a gem. --Chani Nicholas, author of You Were Born for This and cocreated of the CHANI app


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