Black women's yoga history : memoirs of inner peace /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Evans, Stephanie Y. (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
Series:Suny series in black women's wellness
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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