From our favorite yoga teacher over here at the UB Shop, Jessamyn Stanley offers Every Body Yoga, a book that keeps it real about yoga, self-acceptance, and facing your truth.

It’s a book of inspiration for beginners of all shapes and sizes: Jessamyn can transcend these emotional and physical barriers because we all can. 

It’s a book for readers already practicing yoga, who might be looking to refresh their practice or find new motivations. 

It’s a how-to book: Here are easy-to-follow directions to 50 basic yoga poses and 10 sequences to practice at home, all photographed in full color.

It’s a book that challenges the larger issues of body acceptance and the meaning of beauty.

Most of all, it’s a book that changes the paradigm, showing us that yoga isn’t about how one looks, but how one feels, with yoga sequences like “I Want to Energize My Spirit,” “I Need to Release Fear,” “I Want to Love Myself.”