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Yoke by Jessamyn Stanley
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it was ok

I was pretty excited to read this book since one of my yoga instructors posted this on the gram. It was hard to read because of the profanity which I usually do not mind.

If you are committed to yoga and the philosophy I’m not sure that you would be ranting the whole book�

A lot of the topics were unrelated to yoga about after halfway through the book. I understand that a lot of yoga in the U.S. doesn’t pay much tribute to traditional yoga practice but geez, can we calm down on the F^%k White Ppl mentality? A lot of generalization In the book. Wasn’t a fan. There were things I resonated with but the delivery of her ideas were just not my taste.

It’s nice to have someone to represent a different culture within the yoga community but I don’t think that the author took that privilege seriously. DONT READ this if you actually want to learn something about yoga, there are better yoga books that aren’t as negative as this one. Nothing about this book is “deep�
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