Ready to Exhale
Welcome to Ready to Exhale, where we prioritize the mental and emotional well-being of Black Women. In each episode, we center Black Women's voices so we can learn from their rich stories and expertise. As we listen to these rich stories, we gain a deeper understanding of what it takes to hold space for the fullness of who we are as Black Women. This podcast offers a brave space where you will be inspired to express your joy and find moments to exhale—no more waiting to exhale!
Ready to Exhale
Race-Based Stress & Trauma with Dr. Gail Parker
In this episode our host Katara chats with Dr. Gail Parker to discuss race-based stress and trauma and ways we can heal and live thriving lives.
Gail Parker, PhD., CIAYT, is an author, psychologist, yoga therapist educator, and a lifelong practitioner of yoga. She is President Emerita of the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance (BYTA) Board of Directors where she served as President of the Board from 2020-2024. Dr. Gail is well known for her pioneering efforts to blend psychology, yoga, and meditation as effective self-care strategies that can enhance emotional balance, and contribute to overall health and well-being. She is a facilitator in The Highland Project leadership program, and in Shay’s Warriors Life After Cancer retreat.
She was a faculty member in the Kripalu School of Integrative Yoga Therapy, teaching therapeutic yoga for stress reduction and trauma recovery from 2020-2024. Dr. Gail has appeared numerous times as a psychologist expert on nationally syndicated talk shows including the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Her bestselling book, Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma, offers self-care strategies and invites everyone, not just those directly impacted, to explore the intersection of yoga, race and ethnicity, and to consider the psychological impact of race-based stress and trauma on all of us. The companion book, Transforming Ethnic and Race-Based Traumatic Stress With Yoga invites us to reimagine and engage in healing strategies for ethnic and racial stress and trauma that lead to post traumatic growth.
https://www.drgailparker.com/
