IT’S yoga like you’ve never seen it before!

    Valerie Sagun, a 27-year-old yoga fanatic from San Francisco, the U.S., has been taking social media by storm with her feats of strength and flexibility on her Instagram page Big Gal Yoga — promoting body positivity as she goes.

    “I just want to make sure that people don’t feel like that they have to be scared or intimidated by learning yoga from someone who doesn’t look like them,” she explains on her website’s blog.

    “All of us have body issues whether you are big or small, but it’s good to just take the time to look at yourself and just love it as it is now.”

    In a series of stylish, ever-colorful yoga outfits, Valerie stretches her way to poses that even the slim-and-trim yogi would find challenging — showing that thin does not automatically mean athletic and vice versa.

    She performs headstands, balances on a yoga wheel and even bends into the splits with ease in her photos, which have gained her over 80,000 followers on the social media site.

    “My fans are surprised when I do the splits because I’m a bigger girl, but I’m just as flexible as skinny girls,” Valerie recently told Closer. “Some poses hurt my wrists because I’m carrying a lot of weight — but I love chocolate and meatballs!

    “I don’t care what people say, I believe I have a great body — women tell me I’m inspiring and men think my curves are sexy!”

    The plus-size social media sensation began doing yoga about three years ago while taking a Fine Arts degree at university, after signing up to take Hatha classes twice per week.

    She now uses almost anywhere as her personal yoga mat — pulling moves in her backyard, a local park, on the beach and as well as in a local studio, sharing her achievements along the way in photo and video form.

    (SD-Agencies)