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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Stephanie Y., author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

SUNY series in Black women's wellness

Suny series in black women's wellness

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women, Black--Social conditions.

Women, Black.

Older women--Social conditions.

Older women.

Stress management.

Yoga.

Peace of mind.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 447 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Illustrations

Foreword

Preface. What Lies Inside: Writing Myself Well

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Mental Health, Healing, and Wellness: An Intellectual History of Self-Care

Letters to Our Daughters: Narrative Mentoring and Reclaiming a History of Africana Yoga

Mental Health Maintenance: Stress and the Rationale for Studying Inner Peace

Healing Traditions: Traumatic Stress in the #Me Too Era

Historical Wellness: Resources for Applied Intellectual History

Book Outline. Regeneration: Telling Our Truths Backward, Inward, and Forward

A Note on Sources and Method

Part I Look Inward. Healing Traditions (A 1975 Portrait)

1 Yoga is Self-Possession

Definitions of Yoga and Meditation in Black Historical Context: Convergent and Divergent Cultural Practices

A Study of African and African American Yoga Traditions

Popular Styles of Yoga

On Meditation: Types of Mindfulness Practice

2 Managing Traumatic Stress

Defining Traumatic Stress: The Case for Africana Mindfulness

Kinds of Traumatic Events

Rituals for Recovery from Sexual Assault

Survival, Also Known as Continuous Traumatic Stress: Properly Naming a Black Women's Mental Health Crisis

Historical Trauma, the Limits of Self-Help, and the Tragic Inevitability of Struggle

Mental Health in Memoirs: The Africana Memoirs Database

Social Locations of Trauma: A Human Rights Framework

International Stress (Global)

National Stress (Macro)

Community Stress (Meso)

Personal Stress (Micro)

3 Medica, cura te ipsum-Physician, Heal Thyself: Meditation on a Fiftieth Birthday

The Beautiful: My Time in the Tower (2016)

The Ugly: Struggle for Wellness and Wellness for Struggle

The Past

The Present

The Future

The Healing: Wellness Education and Lifelong Learning

Certifications and Continuing Education (Wellness)

Anywhere Concerts

One-Minute Meditation, Lifelong Learning, and Global Mindfulness

Prayer: Morning Grace

Pajama Yoga

Exercising the Power of Antiviolent Self-Defense

Conclusion: Finding What Lies Inside (Clap for Yourself)

Part II Look Backward. Historical Wellness (Pre-1975)

4 Blue Zones for Black Women: Centenarians on Mind, Body, and Spirit

Case Studies of Black Women's Holistic Health: Centenarian Memoirs on Writing (Mind), Prayer (Spirit), and Exercise (Body)

Mind: Anna Julia Cooper (Age 105)

Meditation Traditions

Spirit: Dovey Roundtree (Age 104)

Prayer Traditions

Body: Ida Keeling (Age 105)

Exercise Traditions

Conclusion: Finding Joy, Creativity, and Peace in Elder Narratives

5 Weathering the Weary Blues: Enslavement, Jane Crow, and Migration

Harriet Jacobs: Reflecting on Slavery

The Beautiful: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

The Ugly: The Tyranny of Lechery

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 16, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Evans, Stephanie Y.. Black women's yoga history

ISBN:

9781438483658

1438483651

Publisher Number:

40030424833

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.