Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma

GAIL PARKER has opened my eyes and my heart to the issue of race-based traumatic stress and how yoga can help each one of us to heal from the inside out.

My first personal experience with Gail was at a workshop at the Symposium of Yoga Therapy and Research (SYTAR) in 2018. I saw that I was assigned to introduce Gail Parker and that she had chosen to talk about the topic of race-based stress and trauma. My heart skipped a beat. This talk was something very new and exciting, and had never been done before at a SYTAR conference.

Gail gave a short introduction to start the workshop, and then we broke into partners to have a discussion. We were asked to share with our partner about the first time each of us remembered having an awareness of our own race, the race of another person, and the experience, perception, and feelings that came up for us during these early exposures. Some of these early experiences had caused deep emotional imprints in our hearts...

From the Foreword by Amy Wheeler, Ph.D.