Yoga instructor celebrates "body liberation"

Don't call her a body-positive icon. This yoga instructor and author is more than what her body looks like — in fact, she's liberated. ️

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00:00Since the message of body positivity has really been co-opted at this point and is just

00:06Morphing within the mainstream into something completely different. I just don't care. I'm not that hung up on it as a concept

00:14I

00:26Think that the general message of body positivity has been kind of watered down and bastardized so that it's essentially like

00:35Fat girls deserve the same clothes as everybody else

00:39I find myself more drawn to the idea of body liberation

00:44which is the idea that we're trying to free ourselves from

00:48the constraints not just of

00:51body negativity or a body shaming but of white supremacy of

00:57patriarchal thought

00:59Trying to create a space where people are liberated and feel as though they don't have to adhere to these

01:07Very archaic standards of living and existing

01:22The most common response that I would get from people is like wow

01:27Fat people can do yoga and I was just like why do you think fat people can't do yoga fat people literally do

01:34Everything all the time and it's really just a visibility issue

01:39Ultimately, there's a problem with our society where there are only certain bodies that are ever shown doing anything and more than

01:47Representing a minority. I actually represent the majority

01:57I'm not interested in being an icon

02:00Period what I hope is that we start to live in a world where people are

02:07Comfortable enough with themselves that we don't need to talk about body image anymore

02:12So that we can actually deal with all of the other issues in our world