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Format: HardbackLength: 336 pagesPublication date: 26 May 2022Publisher: Pan Macmillan This book responds to the appetite for guidance on how we actively create change. This book will inspire and welcome all to take part in questioning the status quo and learn how to move towards equity, and why it matters. The majority of teachers in North America and Europe are white, able-bodied, cis-gendered, so how can they create inclusive environments? Diversity and inclusion within the wellness industry has been increasingly under the spotlight. The mission of Yoga as Resistance is to educate and empower yoga practitioners and professionals to take action in aligning their practice on the mat with their lives off the mat. Format: ISBN: 9781529065114Publish/Release date: May 26, 2022Publisher: Pan MacmillanNumber of pages: 336Width (mm): 135Height (mm): 216Depth (mm): 25 Yoga as Resistance by Stacie Graham outlines a dynamic programme of social justice reform within the yoga industry.
- The book is structured around Sanskrit roots of yoga: TAPAS, AHIMSA, ASTEYA, SATYA.
- Each chapter closes with a yoga or meditation practice or journaling activity, to embody deeper understanding and work through any discomfort and issues that may arise, on a somatic and spiritual level.
- The meanings are explored in alignment with the social justice work presented.
- Yoga teachers will learn why the most marginalized matter, even if they are not in the room: and how this affects their teaching.
Reviews
Jan
As a young, working class (white) woman, I found yoga in a book front he 1970s on the shelf of a charity shop in the early nineties and was intrigued by the drawings and lifestyle it described. It seemed to fit my values. Yoga teaching is not my full time job but something I love to gift others when I can.
Nadia, I want to thank you for this gift of a book. I am loving every page of this book and falling deeper in love with my practice as I read it too.
I taught myself the poses and it was many years later in the 2000s that I found a class with an Indian teacher, and discovered the joy of being told when to breathe in, breathe out, move a limb and how etc; however the effect yoga had on my life choices, my mental health and my equilibrium were subtle at first, yet deep. Not only for opening your heart and sharing your story so freely, but for inspiring me to return to my local classes, the leisure centre, and to realise I can and must integrate this beautiful, ancient wisdom in my modern life. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in yoga; equally it is a human, heartfelt emotional tale of the becoming of a woman, through adversity and struggle. .
Thank you Nadia💙 My yoga journey continues but at times, like the author's, I questioned how I fit into the whitewashed and trendy studios full of gymnasts and dancer types. My teacher eventually gave me the gift of teaching yoga in exchange for many hours of discussion on the sutras and typing up his YTT manual. I need the poses for the meditative effects and when I don't have a strong practice, I notice how much I am missing in all areas of my life.
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