Not your average yoga girl. Maar ze is wel degelijk voor veel vrouwen een inspiratie. En yoga bevalt haar zo goed, dat ze nu yoga meester wil worden en les wil gaan geven. Meet Valerie!

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Silhouetted In Light My body, your body, our bodies, all unique bodies.

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Valerie Sagun doet aan ‘hatha yoga’ sinds 4 jaar. Dat is een vorm van yoga die bestaat uit oefeningen om beheersing te verkrijgen over de geest en vooral het lichaam. Sinds een half jaar heeft haar instagram account Big Gal Yoga. “It can be hard for bigger women to find good leggings,” zegt ze, maar dat lijkt haar toch goed te lukken. Ze is geweldig gekleed! En ze blaakt van het zelfvertrouwen.

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“For me, yoga is all about the mind and positive thinking. I get anxiety and depression, and practicing has helped me through that.”

Face to Face Partner yoga fun with @rue575!

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“By being a curvy woman of color, I get to show a lot of underrepresented people that they are capable of anything,” zegt ze.

Like a baby bird taking flight. 🐦 So excited that I got some flight. It was so different this time getting up, and found it hard to straighten my arms. Great first time practicing acro yoga with @rue575 😄! Fucking rockstar flying me! Many more partner yoga fun together! Definitely want to do some partner/acro yoga fun with my buddies @practice_radical_self_love and @justsmileandnod ! Can’t wait for the summer!

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#FlashbackFriday First time practicing  yoga in my undies on the beach with the most perfect weather. I think that @mynameisjessamyn is the one who inspired me to start taking more photos in my undies and different stages of undress. 😁 She always looks strong,  confident, and comfortable in those photos. (Even though she looks amazing in everything she posts 😙) There is something about doing yoga, especially as someone with a bigger body, in your undies or in the nude that feels exciting and liberating. I feel that I am pretty confident in the way I view my body even though it wasn’t till last year someone else had seen my body besides myself. Back in January 2014  I had decided that I wanted my first nude yoga photo at a beach when I had my long mermaid hair. I ended up cutting my hair earlier and changed my mind of that photoshoot. On my last minute trip to Joshua Tree in December I really wanted to just go for it and do the photoshoot because I was in the place that I felt the most comfortable and loved. Deciding to post that photo I was seriously nervous to see how it would be perceived. I loved the photo, but wasnt sure on how others would view it. Besides the encouraging comments it helped me solidify the confidence of how I viewed my body. I’m not saying that you have to take nude photos of yourself and post them to get nice compliments to feel confident, but taking them for viewing for yourself. Seeing yourself in another way besides what you see in the mirror is a good way to see and embrace the beautiful imperfections of your body. I get a lot of people asking where I get my confidence from, but sometimes it’s hard to really know. I feel like I’ve just decided that I deserve to be happy no matter what body I am in. I may have to do things a different way or it may take longer to do something, but so what. As long as you are conciously striving to better yourself with the things you love, no one elses opinion should matter but your own.

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