Practicing Yoga as Resistance

<p>Bringing together a diverse chorus of voices and experiences in the pursuit of collective bodily, emotional, and spiritual liberation, <i>Practicing Yoga as Resistance</i> examines yoga as it is experienced across the Western cultural landscape through an intersectional, feminist lens. </p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p> <p><strong>Part I: Invitations</strong></p><p>1. Essential Questions for Inner and Outer Liberation</p><p>2. Towards a White Spiritual Antiracism </p><p>Part II: Yoga, Self, and Community</p><p>3. Embodied Radical Healing through the Collective: A Black Lotus Autoethnography </p><p>4. Reclaiming Spaces, Reshaping Practices: Yoga for Building Community and Nurturing Families of Color </p><p>5. The City of Radical Love: A Philly Story of Oppression, Resistance, and Healing </p><p>6. Body Science of Survivorship: Mapping the Neurological Impacts of Interlocking Systems of Oppression and Co-Designing Equitable Solutions Through Movement and Breath </p><p>7. Pedagogy of Movement: Yoga in Migrant Projects from a Race and Class Perspective </p><p>8. White Hygiene, White Womanhood, and Wellness in the United States </p><p>9. Incomplete: Impeding the Settler Colonial Project through Yoga for Black Lives</p><p>10. Hozho Yoga: Indigenous Movements Illuminating Human and More-Than-Human Interconnections</p><p>11. Yoga Asana and the Performance of Gender in American Exercise </p><p>12. Embodying Liminality through Yoga: An Autoethnography Exploring the Spaces Between </p><p>Part III: Yoga in Educational Spaces</p><p>13. Yoga, Engaged Pedagogy, and the Process of <i>Becoming: </i>Explorations of a Socially Just Yoga Intervention </p><p>14. White Teachers, Brown Yoga: Teacher Candidates Learning Yoga </p><p>15. Trials and Transformations: Ruminations of a Community College Yoga Teacher </p><p>16. Situating Girls of Color in K-12 Yoga Research: Reflections and Results from Studying an After School Yoga Program for At-Risk Youth </p><p>17. Yoga and Arts: Positive Disrupters in the School to Prison Pipeline </p><p>18. Tending Communities: Yoga as an Integrative, Collaborative, and Transformative Practice </p>