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RESOURCES FOR ANTI-OPPRESSION IN WELLNESS

VIDEOS

You Are Here: Exploring Yoga and the Impacts of Cultural Appropriation 

There is No Neutral | Michelle Johnson | TEDxWakeForestU

 

TEACHERS/GROUPS

Melissa Shah - Find Your Breath

Tejal Patel

Anjali Rao

Trans Yoga Project

Jacoby Ballard Yoga

Off the Mat Into the World

State of Union (Yoga) Address

Jessamyn Stanley 

 

PODCASTS

Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence

Resmaa Menakem on OnBeing

Ancestral Healing for Anti-Racist White Folks

Kelly Germaine-Strickland & Jardana Peacock on Irresistible/Healing Justice Podcast

If Yoga is Peaceful, Why are Y’all so Angry All the Time?

Accessible Yoga

An Uncomfortable (But Meaningful) Conversation About Race

Lama Rod Owens on Ten Percent Happier

Yoga is Dead

 

BOOKS

Embrace Yoga's Roots: Courageous Ways to Deepen Your Yoga Practice

By Susanna Barkataki

Spiritual Bypassing: When Spirituality Disconnects Us from What Really Matters

by Robert Augustus Masters

Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get on the Mat, Love Your Body.

by Jessamyn Stanely

Overcoming Trauma through Yoga: Reclaiming Your Body

By David Emerson

Yoga For a World Out of Balance

by Michael Stone

My Grandmother's Hands 

by Resmaa Menakem

Accessible Yoga: Poses and Practices for Every Body

Jivana Heyman 

A Queer Dharma: Yoga and Meditations for Liberation 

by Jacoby Ballard

Teaching to Transgress

by bell hooks

Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation

by Rev. Angel Kyoto, Lama Rod Owens, Jasmine Syedullah

Yoga for Everyone

by Dianne Bondy

Mindful of Race 

By Ruth King

Skill in Action

by Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Me and White Supremacy 

by Layla Saad

So You Want to Talk About Race 

by Ijeoma Oluo

Waking Up White 

By Debby Irving

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 

By Michelle Alexander

How to be an Antiracist 

By Ibram X Kendi

The Inner Work of Racial Justice 

By Rhonda Magee

Emergent Strategy 

By adrienne maree brown

Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma 

By Dr. Gail Parker 

Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Rage 

By Lama Rod Owens

Rachel Cargle’s COmpiled List of Books by POC

 

ARTICLES

Ghosts of Yogas Past and Present

By : Prachi Patankar

South Asian American Perspectives on Yoga in America (SAAPYA)

What the Author of Me and White Supremacy Wants You to Know About Anti-Racism Work

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