In fact, I happen to be one damn good yoga teacher.
The price of admission for being female and vocal on the internet is harassment.
Rarely do I need to respond.
Photo: Carina Vowels
But in this instancewhen people come at me for being a yoga teacherI absolutely do.
These are facts about me, and they are not mutually exclusive.
Before I stepped into my first yoga practice at a studio, I emailed the owner.
I asked her if it was okay to try yoga at that studio, fat body and all.
It was not a room of thin, luxury leisurewear donning bodies.
At that moment, I didn’t know what the future might hold for me.
My body requires modifications for some yoga poses.
But so do most bodies.
(See:What Does Om Mean, Exactly?)
Specific yoga asanasemerged only in the early 1900s, styled after the gymnastics practiced by prepubescent boys.
Fat is a fact of my body, but its not the most interesting one.
It’s damn cool I canhold my body in a handstandand forearm stand.
That I can flow pose to pose gracefully and skillfully.
But yoga isnt about my body.
Its about my body as it relates to my mind.
I prove it by creating the right shape in my life.
Kelly Jensenis an editor atBook Riotand her own popular book blog,Stacked.
Most recently, she’s editedBody Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy(out 8/18).
