
Black Women's Yoga History
Memoirs of Inner Peace
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Adenrele Ojo
Examines how Black women elders have managed stress, emphasizing how self-care practices have been present since at least the mid-19th century, with roots in African traditions.
How have Black women elders managed stress? In Black Women's Yoga History, Stephanie Y. Evans uses primary sources to answer that question and to show how meditation and yoga from eras of enslavement, segregation, and migration to the Civil Rights, Black Power, and New Age movements have been in existence all along. Life writings by Harriet Jacobs, Sadie and Bessie Delany, Eartha Kitt, Rosa Parks, Jan Willis, and Tina Turner are only a few examples of personal case studies that are included here, illustrating how these women managed traumatic stress, anxiety, and depression. In more than 50 yoga memoirs, Black women discuss practices of reflection, exercise, movement, stretching, visualization, and chanting for self-care. By unveiling the depth of a struggle for wellness, memoirs offer lessons for those who also struggle to heal from personal, cultural, and structural violence. This intellectual history expands conceptions of yoga and defines inner peace as mental health, healing, and wellness that is both compassionate and political.
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Second: I understand that this is a collection of memoirs, but the author’s writing style is quite dry. It feels like I am reading her final draft of a dissertation. I don’t find it to be a captivating nor enjoyable experience.
I was eager to recommend it to every black woman I knew before reading but now I think that due to the nature of the sensitive topics discussed, I would refrain from recommending it unless I knew the person would find it relevant and timely for their healing journey.
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