The yoga of everyday life: Jessamyn Stanley on nourishing the spiritual and physical body
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Read CNN's Q&A with Jessamyn Stanley, the author of the new yoga book "Yoke." Find out how she takes yoga off the mat into everyday life -- and how she combine the messy corners of her life with meditation.
A late-night email alerted Stanley to a misspelling printed in her first book, "Every Body Yoga" She'd mistakenly defined the Sanskrit word for yoga as meaning to "yolk" instead of "yoke." Instead of summoning images of joining together the dark and light of life, she'd invoked an egg. This discovery kicked off rage, then embarrassment and self-doubt. But Stanley derailed the shame spiral by simply rolling out her yoga mat and trying to breathe. Nothing fancy. Just "steady, in and out through the nose."More Related News