Black women's yoga history : memoirs of inner peace / Stephanie Y. Evans ; foreword by Jana Long.

By:

Evans, Stephanie Y [Author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 447 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781438483658

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

HQ1163 .B533 2021

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Contents:

Managing traumatic stress -- Medica, cura te inches per secondum : physician, heal thyself : meditation on a fiftieth birthday -- Look backward. Historical wellness (pre-1975). Blue zones for black women ; centenarians on mind, body, and spirit -- Weathering the weary blues : enslavement, Jim, Crow, and migration -- Everyday violence, everyday peace : civil rights, black power, and a new age -- Look forward. Toward mental health (post-1975). Memoirs are mentors : narratives of Africana yoga -- Survivor self-care : midlife mindfulness and wellness activism -- The purpose of black women's studies : meditation on a fiftieth anniversary -- Conclusion. Woosah : remember to breathe : ancient peace, self-care pedagogy, and the future of Africana yoga -- Coda. My last will and testament : stress and inner peace during a global pandemic.

Subject: "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"--

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	HQ1163 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1227817217

Includes bibliographies and index.

Look inward. Healing traditions (a 1975 portrait). Yoga is self-possession -- Managing traumatic stress -- Medica, cura te inches per secondum : physician, heal thyself : meditation on a fiftieth birthday -- Look backward. Historical wellness (pre-1975). Blue zones for black women ; centenarians on mind, body, and spirit -- Weathering the weary blues : enslavement, Jim, Crow, and migration -- Everyday violence, everyday peace : civil rights, black power, and a new age -- Look forward. Toward mental health (post-1975). Memoirs are mentors : narratives of Africana yoga -- Survivor self-care : midlife mindfulness and wellness activism -- The purpose of black women's studies : meditation on a fiftieth anniversary -- Conclusion. Woosah : remember to breathe : ancient peace, self-care pedagogy, and the future of Africana yoga -- Coda. My last will and testament : stress and inner peace during a global pandemic.

"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"--

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