The truth about your body.
If you’ve ever stepped on your mat and felt like someone was silently questioning if you belonged there, whether in a yoga studio, practicing in the park, or through a social media screen, I want you to know: I see you. And I’m sorry you experienced that.
Today’s yoga world has done a spectacular job of convincing us that yoga was invented by swimsuit models on Caribbean beaches: their hair is effortlessly messy (never a frizz or a strand stuck to a damp forehead), their bodies glisten just so, and love handles apparently don’t exist in their universe.
While these yogis might achieve impressive poses and elegant flows (and yes, they can be inspiring), showing only this carefully curated fantasy is unrealistic and can be intimidating. It doesn’t reflect real bodies, real practice, or real life.
Worse, it can make you question whether your body is a yoga body at all. It can steal the joy right out of your practice before you’ve even taken your first breath.
This influence runs so deep that on the Yogi Flight School website, I created an entire page just to show aspiring ninjas that every body, regardless of shape, size, or ability, can fly.
Yoga of any kind is not reserved for “specific bodies.” It is available to anyone with curiosity, commitment, and a willingness to try.
The Yoga Body
A yoga body is simply a body that practices yoga.
That’s it. No prerequisites. No gold star in flexibility. No stepping on a scale.
A yoga body might not be able to touch the toes in a forward fold, and they may face plant after a half-second crow pose attempt. It might flow effortlessly one day and lie in savasana the next.
A yoga body might be young or old, slim or curvy, able-bodied or navigating injury or chronic illness.
It might move in ways that look different from others and still be deeply powerful.
The Yoga Mind
Over time, a yoga body invites in a yoga mind.
The yoga mind learns not just how to stretch or balance, but how to listen.
To be in honest conversation with sensation. To respond to breath instead of ego.
To soften into both effort and ease, without shame or apology.
And as you continue to practice, the mind begins to unlearn everything it’s been taught about beauty, performance, and worth.
It becomes a little quieter, a little steadier.
It starts to trust the present moment more than the mirror.
It stops trying to look like a yogi and begins to feel like one.
That’s the real power of a yoga body, is not in how it looks, but in what it opens.
Don’t let anyone steal your joy
If someone has ever made you feel small, like you don’t belong, like you have to earn your space on the mat, they were speaking from their own limitations, not yours.
That judgment says more about their story than it ever will about your worth.
Your body is already a yoga body.
Your practice is already valid.
You are a badass.
Your joy is yours to keep.
And no one gets to take that away from you.
Come as you are, and we’ll meet you there.
Inside Yogi Flight School, I wanted to create something different: a community where nobody cares what you look like on the mat.
We celebrate effort (not perfection), and cheer face plants, wobbly wins, and first flights. We believe that your body is already a yoga body. You don’t need to change a thing to belong.
Because yoga isn’t about fitting in.
It’s about showing up, for yourself, in your own power.
Join us and discover just how strong, capable, and badass you already are!
