Quiet Healing: Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Trauma with Dr. Gail Parker

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Gail Parker joins me on the podcast this week! Gail is a psychologist, yoga educator, and author of two companion books that center restorative yoga as a potent healing modality for ethnic and race-based trauma. These books are incredible and have taught me so much, which is why I wanted to share them with you. Here are a few things I learned from the books and this conversation with Gail:

An understanding of what race-based trauma is, both from an historical perspective and from lived experience.
How people who have experienced race-based trauma often feel like it's their fault (and how this is so often reinforced by society)
The ways that restorative yoga works for race-based trauma: You are working with the nervous system not the traumatic event, which teaches you how to recognize relaxation, immobilize without fear, and supports feeling safe in stillness without hypervigilance.
The benefits of understanding your nervous system and attempting to discern the difference between triggers and actual threats

When we attempt to learn about racism and race-based trauma, we can (hopefully) make our yoga spaces more welcoming and inclusive! Thank you for listening and go to the shownotes for Gail's books: yogalandpodcast.com/episode336

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1:03.2	Okay, so on to today's interview.
1:05.6	Today I talk to Gail Parker,
1:07.6	who is an author, psychologist, and yoga therapist, educator.
1:11.6	I have actually known Gail for about 20 years, although we did lose touch,
1:16.4	but Gail came on one of Jason's yoga retreats way back in the day. I think it was before we were even married in Mexico and I got to know her there. We actually share we we reminisced before the podcast started about some funny stories. There was, we were staying in Saluelita
1:35.0	and for those of you've been to Saluita
1:37.6	at a very specific time of year,
1:40.3	crabs come out and they come out overnight and they like are crawling everywhere.
1:46.0	You're stepping on them. I mean it is wild so we had a good laugh about that.
1:50.0	But I wanted to talk to Gail today. She has just an incredibly impressive CV. She is the author of
1:58.6	Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-based stress and trauma,
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