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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 447 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781438483658
Subject(s): Genre/Form: 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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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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