Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma

By: Gail Parker, Justine Ross, Octavia F. Raheem - introduction, Amy Wheeler - introduction

Narrated by: Veronique Olin

Presenting ways in which Restorative Yoga can contribute to healing emotional wounds, this book invites yoga teachers, therapists and practitioners to consider the psychological impact of ethnic and race-based stress and trauma. It aids in the process of uncovering, examining, and healing one's own emotional wounds and offers insight into avoiding wounding or re-wounding others.

The book describes how race-based traumatic stress differs from PTSD and why a more targeted approach to treatment is necessary, as well as what can trigger it. It also considers the implications of an increasingly racially and ethnically diverse and global yoga community, as well as the importance of creating conscious yoga communities of support and connection, where issues of race and ethnicity are discussed openly, non-defensively and constructively.

By providing a therapeutic structure that assists those directly and indirectly impacted by ethnic and race-based stress and trauma, Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma provides valuable tools for aiding in the processing of stressful experiences and in trauma recovery.

(P)2021 Hodder & Stoughton Limited©2020 Gail Parker

Great guide for black Americans

Extremely insightful for black Americans. The information is helpful in cultivating self-empowerment and new ways to perceive and revive the external world.

Just what I needed

I’ve had a love - hate relationship with the western commercial yoga practice, and this book really helped me fall in love with my practice and to explore new resources to craft a routine that works for me. I felt seen and heard through the pages of this book. Would recommend it for those who have experienced discomfort or disillusionment in your local yoga practice.

The honesty of the pain of living with ethnic and race based trauma expressed in this book.

If you are recovering from trauma or learning to teach yoga in a trauma sensitive way specific to people of different ethnic and racial backgrounds, this book is an essential resource.

So much good information

This is a gorgeous book, and is full of really good helpful information. I learned so much, not just about yoga and race but also about being a human in a complex world. This book is really powerful and I plan to read it many times over. Beautifully narrated too!