Jessamyn Stanley

Jessamyn Stanley

Jessamyn Stanley (born June 27, 1987) is an American yoga teacher and writer.

Quotes

• It’s so idealized, like, your life must be perfect if you can hold a balance posture on the beach. But the actual practice of yoga isn’t about that at all. The image isn’t important. The practice is.
  • Jessamyn Stanley, quoted in Jenna Wortham (July 6, 2017). Finding a More Inclusive Vision of Fitness in Our Feeds.

• I didn’t realize that in truth what makes you a good teacher is really living your own practice, and living it so much that you request it to other people. Ultimately, everything you do that you teach someone else is something that you’re working through to teach yourself, and that practice of really digging within yourself, it feels like having your soul cracked open.
  • Jessamyn Stanley, quoted in Samantha Grasso (August 28, 2018). Jessamyn Stanley is fighting for radical visibility and yoga for every body.

• We often think that yoga is only about the combination of postures, breathing, and meditation, but it results in a lot of internal work, too. That work has led me to understand my own liberation — not just of my physical body, but of my emotional and spiritual bodies. A huge part of that has been recognizing that I am a sexual being, and that's not something that I need to apologize for or be ashamed of.
  • Jessamyn Stanley, quoted in Michelle Toglia (July 8, 2020). Jessamyn Stanley's Road To Sexual Liberation.