BOOKS
Demystifying Yoga
By Donna Noble | Published August 2026 | Available NOW
Misconceptions have led many people to believe that yoga is an exclusive practice only for slim, young, able-bodied and privileged people. Shifting the focus away from limiting stereotypes and myths, Donna Noble carves out a vital space for a more inclusive vision of yoga within these pages.
Examining issues such as body image, cultural appropriation and accessibility, chapters break down the barriers to yoga practice, exploring the origins of yoga stereotypes and how they have shaped perceptions. Drawing on real-life examples, interviews with practitioners, and community insights, this book spotlights the voices that are too often missing from yoga spaces and offers practical tools for making yoga culture welcoming and inclusive for everybody.
Whether you are yoga teacher or simply looking to find yourself reflected in yoga, this book is the perfect place to be reminded that yoga really is for everyBODY regardless of age, size, ethnicity, ability or gender.
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Teaching Body Positive Yoga
By Donna Noble | Published August 2022 | Available NOW
Drawing on the philosophy and history of the body positivity movement, Donna Noble presents a radical re-examination of teaching inclusive yoga classes by breaking down stereotypes and demystifying yoga.
By sharing accessible tools for everything from marketing a body-positive class to setting the scene in the space, using appropriate language and considering consent and touch, Noble demonstrates why every body is a yoga body – no matter what shape or size. With guidance on modifying poses for larger bodies, as well as chair-based sequences, this resource helps yoga teachers to ensure that the benefits of yoga are available to everyone.
With practical tips, as well as information on social justice and body-positive yoga off the mat, Teaching Body Positive Yoga is a well-rounded resource that gives yoga teachers the confidence to host inclusive and welcoming classes for all.
What people are saying:
If you’re looking to better understand and inform yourself with topics like the history of body positivity, and the use and understanding of language on and off the yoga mat, then this is a great guide for you; well-researched and easy to digest.
— Lindsey Porter, yogi, yoga tutor, author of Whirlpools, yoga and the balance of life
This book celebrates all that yoga is. It breaks down all barriers and shows us that yoga has open arms for anyone who wants to practise. A liberating look at how anyone can be part of what yoga has to offer mentally and physically. Donna shares her wisdom and past experiences to show us the origins of yoga, subconscious bias and how we can all be more inclusive when it comes to yoga. A celebration of yoga for all.
— Fearne Cotton, Broadcaster
In Teaching Body Positive Yoga, Donna Noble has written a superbly relatable, practical book. She gives us the why as well as the how to practice inclusive, Body Positive Yoga. I especially love the section called Body Positive Yoga Off the Mat where Noble gives us case studies and practices to bring these tools into every moment of our lives! She confidently states, “As teachers you have a voice that is able to create yoga’s future.” She gives us many tools and practices to create a more inclusive future. As a South Asian woman,working to preserve the heart of yoga today, i’m thrilled to have Noble’s book grace my yoga bookshelves and support all of our practice and teaching. — Susanna Barkataki, Author of Embrace Yoga’s Roots
Donna Noble writes in a way that allows the reader to understand the universality of yoga as a beautiful ancient practice. Stripping away all the notions that make yoga as we know it in the West to feel inaccessible, Donna reminds us that to be in the present is to be at one with the body mind and soul.
Amazing work! — Kelechi Okafor, Actress and co-founder of Kelechnekoff Fitness studio
Black Girls Om Too
Donna is a contributor to Black Girls Om Too, a collection exploring yoga, healing, embodied resistance, liberation, and the experiences of Black women in wellness spaces.
Black Girls Om Too focuses on Black yoginis and the spaces in which their bodies are allowed to live digitally, narratively, and physically. Black women yoga instructors have historically been made invisible in mainstream yoga magazines, books, and advertising. Although there is considerable research on yoga’s impact on Black women’s holistic health, there is significantly less material on Black women yoga instructors who “talk back” not only to the dominant society, but also to traditional intracultural spiritual, physical, and mental ways of being. In fact, the social justice work that these women have produced can be viewed as liberatory spirituality and instruction.
Celebrating healing, resistance, and the transformative journey of yoga, Black Girls Om Too features inspiring contributions from trailblazing Black women in the wellness space. Donna Noble of Curvesome Yoga advocates for body positivity and inclusivity in yoga, while Saisha Lacon Baskerville of Thick Thigh Yoga empowers women to embrace their full selves through movement. Linda Wellness Warrior shares her wisdom on self-care and spiritual growth, and Irene Auma, founder of Peace Within Prison Yoga, highlights yoga’s healing power for incarcerated individuals. In addition to these remarkable voices, the book includes many more contributors who share their unique journeys and perspectives. Together, they redefine what it means to find peace, strength, and liberation on the mat, in their communities, and through their impactful work in digital spaces.
Beyond The Mirror | September 2025
In Beyond the Mirror: A Love Story, Body Confidence Coach and Trainee Psychosexual Therapist Serena Novelli brings together a collective of powerful stories and transformational teachings that challenge everything we’ve been told about beauty, worth and womanhood.
Featuring stories and declarations from over 50 courageous women, from chart-topping icons to everyday warriors, this book smashes outdated beauty standards and redefines what it means to feel at home in your body.
Yoga Saved My Life
Featuring Donna’s personal story of healing and transformation through yoga, and the journey that inspired her mission to make yoga accessible and inclusive for everyBODY.
Forgiveness is the Hardest Thing: A collection of short stores, poems and essays on how 21 women let go and moved on .. or didn’t – January 2022
Forgive (verb): 1. Stop feeling angry or resentful towards a person who has done something hurtful or wrong. 2. excuse an offence or mistake.
Forgiveness (noun): the action of forgiving.
(OED, Oxford University Press 2009)
The path to forgiveness requires acceptance, introspection, admission of guilt, and the ability to see the situation through another’s eyes.
During the prolonged Covid-19 lockdowns, twenty-one women were invited to write about their experiences of forgiveness through the medium of poetry or prose, fiction or non-fiction. The result is an anthology that lays bare the shared need to forgive or to be forgiven.
It captures deeply personal stories of domestic violence, family disruptions, the disintegration of friendships, and the impact of taking an individual’s power. But it also brings gifts of insight, stories of healing, techniques to help with physical and mental well-being, and a discourse about the spiritual side of forgiveness from a unique perspective.
Featuring the writing of multiple-award winning authors from across North America, the UK, Ireland, NZ and Australia, Forgiveness is the Hardest Thing is an inspiring collection to draw from when you too are wondering, how can I forgive?
