Evans, Stephanie Y., <br/><br/>
Black women's yoga history :  memoirs of inner peace / 
Stephanie Y. Evans ; foreword by Jana Long. 
 - 1 online resource (xxiii, 447 pages) :  illustrations. 
 - SUNY series in black women's wellness .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781438483658 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2020050106 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women, Black--Social conditions.<br/>Older women--Social conditions.<br/>Stress management.<br/>Yoga.<br/>Peace of mind.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ1163  / .B533 2021