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7-31-2025

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"For years, I thought yoga wasn’t meant for someone like me. I believed it belonged to a certain body type, a certain lifestyle, a certain image that didn’t reflect my own. As a visibly Muslim woman, I rarely saw anyone who looked like me in yoga spaces — let alone leading or being celebrated in them. That first class at Shaanti changed everything. It was inclusive. Grounding. Free of mirrors, expectations, and ego. I finally saw that yoga wasn’t about bending into shapes — it was about returning to myself."

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This article was originally published on Medium in 2025.

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