Black women's yoga history : memoirs of inner peace /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Suny series in black women's wellness
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Table of 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