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New Book Brings Body Positivity To Backbends

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did not like yoga when she first started. Stanley’s first yoga class ended with her lying in a heap, overcome with nausea. But the body positivity advocate found her way back the mat years later and started sharing her journey with yoga on social media.and Tumblr made Stanley a social media star.

Host Frank Stasio speaks with Stanley about (Workman Publishing/2017) and about her continuing journey towards self-acceptance. Stanley reads from her book at She will also teach a class this Saturday, April 8 at Raleigh’s McKimmon Conference & Training Center as part of Her class begins at 10:30 a.m.

Laura Pellicer is a digital reporter with app’s small but intrepid digital news team.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's app Director.
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