Jessamyn Stanley is not like the other instructors featured in this story. Her Instagram account is not famous because of her weight lifting or weight loss progress - Jessamyn is in the body-positive movement, which means she accepts her body as it is. She is also awesome at yoga, which shatters some peoples beliefs that certain yoga poses and inversions can't be done by overweight people.
Jessamyn labels her movement "fat yoga." She explains it as, "I say 'fat yoga' and to me it's like, being fat and practicing yoga. For some people 'fat yoga' means only fat people can practice this style of yoga. I'm not a separatist, but some people think it's important for us to have our own thing. My problem with labeling fat yoga is that it turns into the idea that there are only certain kinds of yoga that fat people can do. And that if you're not doing fat yoga that you're not allowed to do yoga."