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January 8, 2019Melanie WilliamsLeave a Comment on Contextualize Yourself

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WASHINGTON, DC • I just can’t seem to stay away. 😘 I’m back in town this weekend for two workshops, and I can’t wait to see you there! • SATURDAY 4/6 ❤️ Yoga + Body Image at @lighthouseyogacenter (DC) • SUNDAY 4/7 🌈 Yoga + Queer Identity at @numiyogacp (College Park, MD) • Links to more info and registration can be found at the link in my bio. • #yoga #dcyoga #representationmatters #fatliberation #bodypositive #bodypositivity #queeryoga #fatyoga #bodypositiveyoga #selflove #bodyimage #whatayogilookslike #yogaforall #yogaforeverybody #queersofinstagram #yogateacher #yogaworkshop

I’m all kinds of thrilled that @yogalle33 is taking over my class on Monday nights at @lighthouseyogacenter, not only because I know this will mean my students will go forth with phenomenal insights and instruction from this human, but because #representationmatters. • #Repost @yogalle33 with @get_repost ・・・ So excited and honored to be taking over for this person starting Monday at 6 pm @lighthouseyogacenter! They are a champion for queer, fat and non-binary yoga teachers— all ways I identify and hope to be, too, someday! I’m so inspired by you @foundspaceyoga and I hope to live up to your namesake! You’re an inspiration to me and so many others. Just knowing people like you are out there creating spaces for people like me to be and exist is enough for me to keep going. Especially in those days when I tell someone I’m a yoga teacher and they look me up and down, like why aren’t you skinny, their face saying with THAT body? I’m here to announce I identify as non-binary, queer and as a fat yoga teacher. If you identify this way, or have never taken class in a space with a teacher who identifies this way, please come out! I’d love to have you. I’d love to have more people who look like me (hairy legs n all) and identify like me entering the yoga spaces. We need yoga to be for all, not just in theory but in practice, too. In order for yoga to truly serve its purpose, it’s got to be for all people. Not just skinny, straight white women. That’s not doing yoga justice. YOGA IS FOR ALL! 🙏🏼❤️🌸 #nervoustosharethis #buthopeful @lighthouseyogacenter #dharmayoga #basicsandbeyond #yogadc #dcyogis #inspiration #fitspo #kindafitkindafat

#Repost @theclarelife with @get_repost ・・・ ARROW TO THE HEART POSE: shift your perspective on what it means to open your heart. How do you touch your heart? The star of this week's Movement Portrait is @foundspaceyoga. Melanie prefers the pronouns they/them. They're hypermobile and can easily flop into janusirsasana A. Is that a “deeper" practice? Getting to your toes is only a marker of success if you're a baby or cat with adorable toe beans. . . . Bow-and-Arrow-to-the-Heart janusirsasana invites them to let the soft animal of their body love what it loves. They shift their flesh to be comfortable instead of pulling themselves into the pose. (Subtle difference!) They trace their fingers up the line of their forearm, touch the skin across their heart, and open their heart. As you try it, slow down and sense: what is it like to be touched by someone who truly cares about you? You never have to be touched in a way you don’t want to be. . . . They love this one after Pilates or a lot of spinal flexion (c-curve). With their kind self-touch, Melanie feels they a beautiful being worthy of loving touch. If you had a reaction to the word “fat”, consider that the place to start is to love your fat students. . . . Touch is a hot topic in the world of movement right now. Appropriate physical contact has immense health benefits. Bad touch is Really Bad. In a touch-starved society, what do we do? Touch yourself. . . . Giggle-inducing, right? But every time I teach this students go somewhere special. They realize their body is not an apology. Sensory experiencing is the gateway to sensuality, the gateway to intimacy. Start somewhere profoundly simple: what is it like to reclaim your sense of touch and being touched? . . . Melanie is a proud fat, queer, non-binary femme and full-time yoga teacher and accessibility advocate. They love moving for movement’s sake and petting other people’s cats. Virgo sun, Taurus rising, Capricorn moon, and laughing about it. This is part of my ongoing Movement Portrait project to show the world what I get to see on a daily basis: movement belongs to everyone. Representation matters! Celebrate diversity and find joy in the way YOUR miracle

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