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Black Women's Yoga History
- Memoirs of Inner Peace
Engelsk Paperback
Black Women's Yoga History
- Memoirs of Inner Peace
Engelsk Paperback

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Examines how Black women elders have managed stress, emphasizing how self-care practices have been present since at least the mid-nineteenth century, with roots in African traditions.

How have Black women elders managed stress? In Black Women''s Yoga History, Stephanie Y. Evans uses primary sources to answer that question and to show how meditation and yoga from eras of enslavement, segregation, and migration to the Civil Rights, Black Power, and New Age movements have been in existence all along. Life writings by Harriet Jacobs, Sadie and Bessie Delany, Eartha Kitt, Rosa Parks, Jan Willis, and Tina Turner are only a few examples of personal case studies that are included here, illustrating how these women managed traumatic stress, anxiety, and depression. In more than fifty yoga memoirs, Black women discuss practices of reflection, exercise, movement, stretching, visualization, and chanting for self-care. By unveiling the depth of a struggle for wellness, memoirs offer lessons for those who also struggle to heal from personal, cultural, and structural violence. This intellectual history expands conceptions of yoga and defines inner peace as mental health, healing, and wellness that is both compassionate and political.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
472
ISBN-13:
9781438483641
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1438483643
Udg. Dato:
2 jul 2021
Længde:
32mm
Bredde:
154mm
Højde:
230mm
Forlag:
State University of New York Press
Oplagsdato:
2 jul 2021
Forfatter(e):
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