Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma

Description: Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma Product Description Product Description Presenting ways in which Restorative Yoga can contribute to healing emotional wounds, this book invites yoga teachers, therapists and practitioners to consider the psychological impact of ethnic and race-based stress and trauma. It aids in the process of uncovering, examining, and healing one's own emotional wounds and offers insight into avoiding wounding or re-wounding others. The book describes how race-based traumatic stress differs from PTSD and why a more targeted approach to treatment is necessary, as well as what can trigger it. It also considers the implications of an increasingly racially and ethnically diverse and global yoga community, as well as the importance of creating conscious yoga communities of support and connection, where issues of race and ethnicity are discussed openly, non-defensively and constructively. By providing a therapeutic structure that assists those directly and indirectly impacted by ethnic and race-based stress and trauma, Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma provides valuable tools for aiding in the processing of stressful experiences and in trauma recovery. Review Dr. Parker has gifted the world with this elegant, powerful book of insights, challenges, and hope. She masterfully weaves the worlds of yoga, healing, trauma and culture in clear, powerful prose. The practices offer you a new understanding of "yoga." You aren't addressing the cultural kleshas? Then get the book! -- Matthew J. Taylor, PT, PhD, C-IAYT, director of SmartSafeYoga, past president of IAYT, and international pain and yoga safety expert. Dr. Gail Parker has covered the important subject of race-based trauma with sensitivity, scientific precision and empathy. Yoga is presented with the principles of yoga, detailed practices, convincing case histories and anecdotes as a way to achieve deep healing.A compelling read for everyone interested in health, healing and harmony! -- Shirley Telles MBBS, Ph.D., Director, Patanjali Research Foundation, Haridwar, India We should all be thankful that Gail Parker, wounded by her own experience of racism, stumbled upon a yoga class. Later, as a psychologist, she came to recognize the healing possible in the stillness of Restorative Yoga. This book is Parker's gracious offering, a beautifully written survival guide for those who have experienced ethnic and race-based stress and trauma, but also for those who wound and re-wound others. It demands we be honest and no longer deny or repress our pain or the pain we inflict upon others. It brilliantly shows us that we have the ability to heal and accept with grace the commonness of our humanity. -- Patrice Gaines, author of Laughing in the Dark Gail Parker has delivered a surprising, thoughtful, rigorous book about how yoga practice can exacerbate racial trauma, especially if it is done without awareness of the unique aspect of race based stress. Chock full of concise examples and concrete steps, Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race Based Stress and Trauma prepares instructors and practitioners alike for the spiritual work of healing racial wounds. This book should be required reading for yoga studio owners, yoga teachers, yoga therapists and for everyone practicing yoga while black. -- Desiree Cooper, author, Pulitzer-Prize nominated journalist, race and gender activist A powerful read for people of all Gail Parker insightfully explains the cumulative effects that race based micro aggressions and larger traumatic events can have upon the nervous system and state of mind. She weaves together her personal experiences, training as a psychologist, yogic philosophy and the nurturing practice of restorative yoga to provide a framework for understanding and recovery. -- Rane Bowen and Jo Stewart, The Flow Artists Podcast A timely, penetrating search for commonality in a racialized world. Dr. Parker expands the construct of trauma as an assault to th About Us Payment Shipping Return We are here to provide you a high quality product at an excellent value. You are ensured to have a great buying experience, and we want thank you for shopping with us! We process all payments through PayPal. You may use all major credit cards within PayPal. For “Buy It Now” listings, your PayPal payment is due immediately at time of checkout. We provide FREE SHIPPING on all Ground Shipping Orders within the contiguous 48 states. We do our best to ship your order out within 1-2 business days. We can only ship to verified addresses. We do not ship internationally or to APO or FPO addresses. Extra shipping charges will be incurred on orders to Alaska, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico. We offer Hassle Free Returns! If you would like to return your item and you are within 30 days of the purchase, and it is still in its original condition, you can request a return label and return the item by contacting us through eBay messaging. Once the item has been received and verified, a refund will be issued through PayPal.

Price: 52.89 USD

Location: Denver, Colorado

End Time: 2024-09-07T17:04:13.000Z

Shipping Cost: 0 USD