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• Title:Black women's yoga history : memoirs of inner peace / Stephanie Y. Evans ; foreword by Jana Long.
  
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• Author/Creator:Evans, Stephanie Y., author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:ProQuest (Firm)
  
• Published/Created:Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
  

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  • Call Number: HQ1163
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Women, Black--Social conditions.
  Older women--Social conditions.
  Stress management.
  Yoga.
  Peace of mind.
  
• Subject(s):Electronic books.
  
• Description:1 online resource ( xxiii, 447 pages) : illustrations.
  
• Series:SUNY series in Black women's wellness.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 16, 2021).
  
• ISBN:9781438483658 electronic book
  1438483651 electronic book
  9781438483634 hardcover
  
• 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