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Exercise may be good for everybody, but most classes aren’t actually good for every body.”I practiced yoga for almost a decade and no teacher ever helped me make the practice work for my curvy body,” says Anna Guest Jelley, founder and CEO (that’s Curvy Executive Officer) of Nashville based Curvy Yoga. “I just kept assuming the problem was my body and that once I lost x amount of weight, I’d finally ‘get it.’ Then one day it dawned on me that the problem was canada goose outlet vip never my body. It was just that my canada goose outlet germany teachers canada goose victoria parka outlet didn’t know how to teach bodies like mine.”This canada goose uk epiphany motivated Guest Jelley to open her canada goose outlet trillium parka black own studio, one specifically designed for real women like canada goose outlet location her. 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But the goal of these studios, the instructors say, isn’t just to make yoga accessible canada goose outlet edmonton to people of all shapes and sizes. 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This canada goose jacket outlet uk can make it harder for students to choose what’s right for them because no one wants to feel like they’re the only one who can’t do something.”Regardless of what you call it, yoga fat, skinny, or otherwise is about how to best help people to be wherever they are right now in their relationship https://www.canadagooseoutlet4online.com with their body, she says.”Our students often report that our classes not only give them the information they need to make the poses work for canada goose outlet real them, but also the permission to do it. 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