Yoga Meditation And Spiritual Growth For The African American Community

Author : Daya Devi-Doolin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937269463
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yoga, Meditation and Spiritual Growth for the African American Community written by Daya Devi-Doolin and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides hope and direction for a new or a renewed body, mind and spirit.The Yoga Asanas within this book will, if you practice, help you to burn calories, strengthen the body, mind and soul and offer benefits you cannot even imagine. All you really have to do is KEEP BREATHING! Daya Devi-Doolin has written an excellent, simple and readable book on Hatha Yoga. YOGA, MEDITATION AND SPIRITUAL GROWTH For the AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY is for you, the everyday person, the person who works, has a family (or not) and wants to stay stress-free, happy, fulfilled and healthy. This book will lead you, the yoga aspirant, and participant to that place. It has a loving and knowledgeable approach as if the reader were right in Daya's Yoga studio at the Doolin Healing Sanctuary. YOGA, MEDITATION AND SPIRITUAL GROWTH For the AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY was written by Yoga Instructor Yogini Daya Devi-Doolin who is the President and Co-Owner, along with her husband Chris Doolin, of The Doolin Healing Sanctuary. Daya started teaching herself Yoga and has been sharing her passion as an instructor for nearly fifty years. She was first trained by Professor Yogi Bharat Gajjar and continued training and improving her skill with Yogi Amrit Desai. Daya knows how important Yoga has been in her life and she conveys that with all of her students so that everyone can experience the good it can bring into their lives. Yoga has transformed her body, mind and spirit and she assures you it can do the same for you as you begin to experience this journey and truth for yourself.

Author : Charlene Marie Muhammad
Publisher : Singing Dragon
ISBN 13 : 1839978635
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yoga in the Black Community written by Charlene Marie Muhammad and published by Singing Dragon. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the practice of yoga continues to flourish within Western Black and Brown communities, this transformative, Black culturally centered toolkit highlights the barriers that hinder access to yoga. It takes core aspects of yoga philosophy and contextualizes it within Black cultural norms, religious taboos, and historical healing practices, and teaches readers how to foster a safe haven for their clients and communities. Based on decades' worth of experience and expertise, this dynamic author duo discusses important topics such as health disparities, complementary healthcare, and the rich heritage and resilience of Black communities. This is an invaluable and practical resource that offers practices and actionable guidance and supports practitioners to explore a Black culturally centered approach to yoga whilst facilitating better health and wellbeing for Black people.

Author : Stephanie Y. Evans
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438483651
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Women's Yoga History written by Stephanie Y. Evans and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 fifty 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.

Author : Faith Hunter
Publisher : Sounds True
ISBN 13 : 1683644263
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiritually Fly written by Faith Hunter and published by Sounds True. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From next-generation yoga teacher Faith Hunter comes a real-world guide to feeling more worthy, vibrant, and alive. “You were born with the fullness of your most epic life within you. Knowing your true worth. Feeling vibrant with each breath and magically alive as you navigate the unexpected. When you peel back the layers of crusty emotional baggage and old subconscious loops that keep you small, you are able to step into the brilliance of who you are in your soul, and that makes you Spiritually FlyTM.” —Faith Hunter Global yoga and meditation teacher Faith Hunter is known for her ability to help others remember their inherent worth and live more soulful, joyful lives. Here, Faith shares the seven principles behind her life philosophy—the “Spiritually Fly Sutras”—inspiring each of us to embrace our unique flow, on and off the mat. The Spiritually Fly Sutras are dynamic, sacred principles grounded in movement, breathwork, sound, and self-reflection. When practiced together, Faith teaches, “They have the ability to inspire and ignite an inner revolution.” Throughout Spiritually Fly, Faith shares the stories that led to each sutra with raw vulnerability. A young Black girl in the South whose brother was dying of AIDS contracted from a blood transfusion, she often struggled to trust in spirit and God. Her own spiritual journey brings a fresh, grounded vibe to her teachings, as she seamlessly blends classic yoga wisdom with modern-day living. To help you integrate each sutra into your life, Faith provides a wealth of “SoulPrints”—exercises and reflections including yoga asanas and kriyas, journaling prompts, pranayama, chakra explorations, and practices for each of the “three Ms”: mantra, mudra, and meditation. For anyone ready to live their most epic lives, Spiritually Fly offers a radical guide to shift unhealthy patterns, recharge your soul, and fly.

Author : Dianne Bondy
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834843307
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yoga Where You Are written by Dianne Bondy and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find freedom in your yoga practice with this empowering guide from beloved yoga teacher and social justice activist Dianne Bondy and Yoga International editor-in-chief Kat Heagberg. Yoga Where You Are welcomes readers of all backgrounds, body sizes, and abilities into the practice of yoga. Dianne Bondy and Kat Heagberg offer everything you need to know to build a custom yoga practice that supports you exactly where you are--now and at every stage of your life's journey. Yoga Where You Are discusses how yoga intersects with body image, introduces essential information on elements like breathwork and meditation, and celebrates yoga's diverse roots through an introductory chapter on its origins and history. Whether you're a beginner, a seasoned practitioner, or a yoga teacher, the step-by-step instructions for hundreds of customizable pose variations provide an essential resource you can turn to as your practice evolves. Bondy and Heagberg also present tips to find inspiration and creativity on the mat. With truly inclusive language, alignment options for real bodies, and photos of a range of practitioners, the book provides you with everything you need to customize and deepen your practice with clarity and confidence.

Author : Phyllis Baker
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595442315
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African-American Spirituality, Thought & Culture written by Phyllis Baker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the author's and African Americans in general, historical roots and personal and professional understanding of her culture.

Author : Brooke Brimm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948487009
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love God Herself written by Brooke Brimm and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demystifying yoga and mindfulness for Black women who have traditionally followed Jesus the Christ. It celebrates the Spiritual Journey of Black women, thus far, and offers an expanded practice through yoga and mindfulness.

Author : Amanda J. Lucia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0520376951
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Utopias written by Amanda J. Lucia and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transformational festivals, from Burning Man to Lightning in a Bottle, Bhakti Fest, and Wanderlust, are massive events that attract thousands of participants to sites around the world. In this groundbreaking book, Amanda J. Lucia shows how these festivals operate as religious institutions for "spiritual, but not religious" (SBNR) communities. Whereas previous research into SBNR practices and New Age religion has not addressed the predominantly white makeup of these communities, White Utopias examines the complicated, often contradictory relationships with race at these events, presenting an engrossing ethnography of SBNR practices. Lucia contends that participants create temporary utopias through their shared commitments to spiritual growth and human connection. But they also participate in religious exoticism by adopting Indigenous and Indic spiritualities, a practice that ultimately renders them exclusive, white utopias. Focusing on yoga's role in disseminating SBNR values, Lucia offers new ways of comprehending transformational festivals as significant cultural phenomena.

Author : Catana Brown
Publisher : F.A. Davis
ISBN 13 : 0803659296
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Occupational Therapy in Mental Health written by Catana Brown and published by F.A. Davis. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revision of a well-loved text continues to embrace the confluence of person, environment, and occupation in mental health as its organizing theoretical model, emphasizing the lived experience of mental illness and recovery. Rely on this groundbreaking text to guide you through an evidence-based approach to helping clients with mental health disorders on their recovery journey by participating in meaningful occupations. Understand the recovery process for all areas of their lives—physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental—and know how to manage co-occurring conditions.

Author : Barbara L. Peacock
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830848207
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soul Care in African American Practice written by Barbara L. Peacock and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity Today Award of Merit In the midst of our hectic, overscheduled lives, caring for the soul is imperative. Now, more than ever, we need to pause—intentionally—and encounter the Divine. Soul care director Barbara Peacock illustrates a journey of prayer, spiritual direction, and soul care from an African American perspective. She reflects on how these disciplines are woven into the African American culture and lived out in the rich heritage of its faith community. Using examples of ten significant men and women—Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Darrell Griffin, Renita Weems, Harold Carter, Jessica Ingram, Coretta Scott King, James Washington, and Howard Thurman—Barbara offers us the opportunity to engage in practices of soul care as we learn from these spiritual leaders. If you've yearned for a more culturally authentic experience of spiritual transformation in your life and community, this book will help you grow in new yet timeless ways. Come to the river to draw deeply for your soul's refreshment.