Practicing Yoga As Resistance : Voices of Color in Search of Freedom

"Bringing together a diverse chorus of voices and experiences in the pursuit of collective bodily, emotional, and spiritual liberation, Practicing Yoga as Resistance examines yoga as it is experienced across the Western cultural landscape through an intersectional, feminist lens. Naming the systems of oppression that permeate our lived experiences, this collection and its contributors shine a light on the ways yoga practice is intertwined with these systems while offering insight into how people challenge and creatively subvert, mitigate, and reframe them through their efforts. From the disciplines of yoga studies, embodiment studies, women's and gender studies, performance studies, educational studies, social sciences, and social justice, the self-identified women, queer, BIPOC and White allies represented in this book present an interdisciplinary tapestry of scholarship that serves to add depth to a growing assemblage of yoga literature for the 21st century"-- Provided by publisher Bringing together a diverse chorus of voices and experiences in the pursuit of collective bodily, emotional, and spiritual liberation. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 List of Figures 9 List of Tables 11 List of Contributors 12 Foreword 20 Preface: An introduction 22 Acknowledgement 26 Part I Invitations 28 Chapter 1 Essential questions for inner and outer liberation 30 Chapter 2 Towards a White spiritual antiracism 44 Part II Yoga, Self, and Community 52 Chapter 3 Embodied radical healing through the collective: A Black Lotus autoethnography 54 Chapter 4 Reclaiming spaces, reshaping practices: Yoga for building community and nurturing families of color 65 Chapter 5 The city of radical love: A Philly story of oppression, resistance, and healing 76 Chapter 6 Body science of survivorship: Mapping the neurological impacts of interlocking systems of oppression and co-designing equitable solutions through movement and breath 93 Chapter 7 Pedagogy of movement: Yoga in migrant projects from a race and class perspective 109 Chapter 8 White hygiene, White womanhood, and wellness in the United States 136 Chapter 9 Incomplete: Impeding the settler colonial project through Yoga for Black Lives 145 Chapter 10 Hozho Yoga: Indigenous movements illuminating human and more-than-human interconnections 160 Chapter 11 Yoga asana and the performance of gender in American exercise 184 Chapter 12 Embodying liminality through yoga: An autoethnography exploring the spaces between 202 Part III Yoga in Educational Spaces 228 Chapter 13 Yoga, engaged pedagogy, and the process of becoming: Explorations of a socially just yoga intervention 230 Chapter 14 White teachers, Brown yoga: Teacher candidates learning yoga 246 Chapter 15 Trials and transformations: Ruminations of a community college yoga teacher 265 Chapter 16 Situating girls of color in K–12 yoga research: Reflections and results from studying an after school yoga program for at-risk youth 282 Chapter 17 Yoga and arts: Positive disruptors in the school to prison pipeline 300 Chapter 18 Tending communities: Yoga as an integrative, collaborative, and transformative practice 318 Index 332 yoga;,pedagogy;,arts;,community;,white,hygiene;,black,lives yoga,pedagogy,arts,community,white hygiene,black lives