Gail Parker, Ph.D. CIAYT, E-RYT 500 is an author, psychologist, educator, and certified yoga therapist. She serves as President of the Black Yoga Teachers Board of Directors (BYTA). She is the author of Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma and Transforming Ethnic and Race-Based Traumatic Stress with Yoga.

A powerful read for people of all races.Dr Gail Parker insightfully explains the cumulative effects that race based micro aggressions and larger traumatic events can have upon the nervous system and state of mind. She weaves together her personal experiences, training as a psychologist, yogic philosophy and the nurturing practice of restorative yoga to provide a framework for understanding and recovery.

• Acknowledgements. Notes. Foreword 1. Foreword 2. Preface. Introduction. 1. Chapter One: The Wounds Heal but the Scars Hurt. 2. Chapter Two: Healing the Wounds of Racial Distress. 3. Chapter Three: The Healing Power of Relationship. 4. Chapter Four: Are You in Your Skin? 5. Chapter Five: Shine A Light. 6. Chapter Six: Communities of Care. 7. Chapter Seven: Spiritual Activism - Yoga from the Inside Out. 8. Chapter Eight: Yoga on the Mat. Afterword.

Gail Parker, Ph.D. CIAYT, E-RYT 500 is an author, psychologist, educator, and certified yoga therapist. She serves as President of the Black Yoga Teachers Board of Directors (BYTA). She is the author of Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma and Transforming Ethnic and Race-Based Traumatic Stress with Yoga.

A powerful read for people of all races.Dr Gail Parker insightfully explains the cumulative effects that race based micro aggressions and larger traumatic events can have upon the nervous system and state of mind. She weaves together her personal experiences, training as a psychologist, yogic philosophy and the nurturing practice of restorative yoga to provide a framework for understanding and recovery.

• Acknowledgements. Notes. Foreword 1. Foreword 2. Preface. Introduction. 1. Chapter One: The Wounds Heal but the Scars Hurt. 2. Chapter Two: Healing the Wounds of Racial Distress. 3. Chapter Three: The Healing Power of Relationship. 4. Chapter Four: Are You in Your Skin? 5. Chapter Five: Shine A Light. 6. Chapter Six: Communities of Care. 7. Chapter Seven: Spiritual Activism - Yoga from the Inside Out. 8. Chapter Eight: Yoga on the Mat. Afterword.

Gail Parker, Ph.D. CIAYT, E-RYT 500 is an author, psychologist, educator, and certified yoga therapist. She serves as President of the Black Yoga Teachers Board of Directors (BYTA). She is the author of Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma and Transforming Ethnic and Race-Based Traumatic Stress with Yoga.

A powerful read for people of all races.Dr Gail Parker insightfully explains the cumulative effects that race based micro aggressions and larger traumatic events can have upon the nervous system and state of mind. She weaves together her personal experiences, training as a psychologist, yogic philosophy and the nurturing practice of restorative yoga to provide a framework for understanding and recovery.

• Acknowledgements. Notes. Foreword 1. Foreword 2. Preface. Introduction. 1. Chapter One: The Wounds Heal but the Scars Hurt. 2. Chapter Two: Healing the Wounds of Racial Distress. 3. Chapter Three: The Healing Power of Relationship. 4. Chapter Four: Are You in Your Skin? 5. Chapter Five: Shine A Light. 6. Chapter Six: Communities of Care. 7. Chapter Seven: Spiritual Activism - Yoga from the Inside Out. 8. Chapter Eight: Yoga on the Mat. Afterword.