TY  - BOOK
AU  - Evans,Stephanie Y.
TI  - Black women's yoga history: memoirs of inner peace 
T2  - SUNY series in black women's wellness
SN  - 9781438483658
AV  - HQ1163 .B533 2021
KW  - Women, Black
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Older women
KW  - Stress management
KW  - Yoga
KW  - Peace of mind
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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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