{"id":913624,"date":"2022-01-05T14:33:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T14:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/05\/curvy-women-who-surprised-many-by-doing-hard-yoga-poses\/"},"modified":"2022-01-05T14:33:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T14:33:48","slug":"curvy-women-who-surprised-many-by-doing-hard-yoga-poses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/curvy-women-who-surprised-many-by-doing-hard-yoga-poses\/","title":{"rendered":"Curvy Women Who Surprised Many By Doing Hard Yoga Poses."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/6ff3950c9ce4434a8ab6a29a29e5d089\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In South Africa, being thick and curvy is always good. The thick ladies in this article have managed to do something out of the ordinary by doing some of the most difficult yoga poses!<\/p>\n<h2>Who said thick and curvy women can&#8217;t do Yoga?<\/h2>\n<p>Yoga is well known to be hard, it can take months or years to learn advanced poses. And it can also make any person feel self-conscious about their body \u2014 especially if you are more curvy. But times have changes and anyone with any body type can benefit a lot from doing yoga.<\/p>\n<p>We used to think that only a &#8216;certain type&#8217; of person with a &#8216;certain body type&#8217; can do Yoga but then came Jessamyn Stanley and thick yoga enthusiasts who changed everything. Yoga is for everyone and every body type&#8230;&#8230;the limit is only yourself.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/62ddca5a725a46d78a0c857bb0e23538\"\/>Jessamyn Stanley, 29<\/strong>, began practicing\u00a0yoga\u00a0five years ago when she was in graduate school. As her practice developed, she used social media as a platform to document her progress\u00a0and setbacks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/d4b07548e39447adb35dbbd39c1c6498\"\/>Now Jessamyn is more famous and established than ever and is currently a certified yoga instructor and has recently published a book and teaches mainstream yoga classes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Valerie Sagun, 27<\/strong>, became an overnight famous yoga enthusiast when she gained 100k followers on social media.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/029cee8bd677416e83088c2a2f89bcea\"\/>Her followers were fascinated and amazed that a woman her size can do extremely complex yoga poses that look impossible for curvy women.<\/p>\n<p>Yoga is good for the mind, heart and body. It improves strength, balance and flexibility.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. It Improves flexibility and strength by stretching the muscles. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.Many poses in yoga strengthens the core muscles in the stomach and back.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Yoga poses eases stress and anxiety levels. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Yoga poses can reduce low back pain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Yoga improves sleep.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Here Are More Pictures Of Curvy Women Who Surprised Many By Doing Hard Yoga Poses:<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/3b15f1e1868f403dbf32e350852faede\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/77e8044860914c87a063c432b7da2bbc\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2416847991514d6988850c92b127db71\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/a5bb4ee4160c4f41815f44fb3762d6c4\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cd608eb3958d461ea798bfc5cc82f427\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/b01fc908f44b43fc817e82f209786ace\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/40ba34bc7ceb407d9ad24d5ffeae852a\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Read More:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.health.harvard.edu\/staying-healthy\/yoga-benefits-beyond-the-mat<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/nutrition\/13-benefits-of-yoga<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.google.com\/amp\/s\/www.self.com\/story\/jessamyn-stanley-is-changing-the-yoga-world-one-pose-at-a-time\/amp<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.google.com\/amp\/s\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/608754\/Curvy-yoga-lover-shames-weight-haters-Instagram-fans-inspirational\/amp<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: 2BFitKat (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nSouth Africa<br \/>\nYoga<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In South Africa, being thick and curvy is always good. The thick ladies in this article have managed to do something out of the ordinary by doing some of the most difficult yoga poses! Who said thick and curvy women can&#8217;t do Yoga? Yoga is well known to be hard, it can take months or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}