Description: Offering a race-informed therapeutic approach to yoga, this book invites yoga professionals to consider the psychological impact of ethnic and race-based stress and trauma. It describes the symptoms and causes of race-based traumatic stress and includes instructions and illustrations for Restorative Yoga practices.
Brief description: Gail Parker, Ph.D. CIAYT, E-RYT 500 is an author, psychologist, educator, and certified yoga therapist. She serves as President of the Black Yoga Teachers Board of Directors (BYTA). She is the author of Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma and Transforming Ethnic and Race-Based Traumatic Stress with Yoga.
Review Quotes: Gail Parker's important work is a welcome portal into a critical conversation in which we are all engaged. Uniquely, this book is also a thoughtful roadmap for furthering that conversation through the healing practices of yoga.--Laurie Hyland Robertson, Editor in Chief, Yoga Therapy Today