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One reference was from Sheila McCauley, the niece of Rosa Parks. McCauley wrote about yoga as a family practice and about Mrs. Parks as an avid yogini.” Our Auntie Rosa, McCauley’s family memoir, co-authored with Eddie Allen, details how Rosa Parks attended yoga classes with both her niece and nephew, beginning as early as the 1960s. “The Rosa Parks practicing yoga at an event, n.d. Photograph. Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (056.00.00) Enlarge Rosa Parks. Notes on yoga, January 8, 1981. Autograph notes. Rosa Parks Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (057.00.00) Enlarge Rosa Parks’s yoga practice was life-long. Rosa Parks first learned yoga in the late 60s, and sources say she kept practicing until her death in 2005. It wasn’t an easy road. After her initial refusal to move on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama, which inspired the Montgomery Bus boycott, Rosa Parks lost her job at a local department store. One reference was from Sheila McCauley, the niece of Rosa Parks. McCauley wrote about yoga as a family practice and about Mrs. Parks as an avid yogini.” Our Auntie Rosa, McCauley’s family memoir, co-authored with Eddie Allen, details how Rosa Parks attended yoga classes with both her niece and nephew, beginning as early as the 1960s. “The The story was for our Black History Month edition and featured one of the most notable woman in the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks. Hi, I am Asha Gilbert and I am a trending reporter at USA TODAY. Rosa Parks was not only taking yoga, she was also teaching yoga. So this idea of self-care in the Black feminist and African feminist context is not about self and survival only. But when I started looking at Anna Julia Cooper and some of the elders for clues about stress management, it recalibrated how I thought about wellness in this Rosa Parks practicing Yoga | Library of Congress. Black people pushing for change in America can feel like a neverending task, like Sisyphus rolling a boulder up a hill. Engaging in self-care is a Parks used yoga as a way to preserve her own well-being in the midst of her activism beginning as early as the 1960s, which Dr. Evans believes is important for all Black women to follow. Through exercise, meditation , and self-reflection, Black women have curated their own definition of inner peace over the years that is both radical and McCauley wrote about yoga as a family practice and about Mrs. Parks as an avid yogini." Thanks for watching!Visit WebsiteThanks for watching!Visit Website. Our Auntie Rosa, McCauley's family memoir, co-authored with Eddie Allen, details how Rosa Parks attended yoga classes with both her niece and nephew, beginning as early as the 1960s. How a Georgia State University Professor uncovered pictures of the iconic civil rights activist practicing asana. Photos of Rosa Parks practicing yoga have been circulating on social media over the - Caption label from exhibit Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words Detroit 1957 and Beyond: Rosa Practicing Yoga. Rosa Parks had an interest in Buddhism. In her senior years she took yoga classes and added Buddhist meditation to her prayers. "Rosa Parks' yoga practice was a very small community. Coming into the '60s era, we're coming off of the Red Scare and McCarthy era and all that kind of stuff went underground." We are loving this great piece of yoga history as told by yoga instructor Ona (@sol.soul.sole.yoga) today! As Ona says, Rosa Parks found yoga later in life Rosa Parks would answer the door in yoga pants “Parks practiced yoga for more than 30 years and taught yoga in her community. She documents her own mother leading her and her brother in daily ‘stretching exercises,’” writes Evans. Parks started learning yoga in earnest in 1965, when she was already in her 50s. Yet my initial survey of electronically searchable narratives showed that over 150 memoirs mentioned meditation and about 50 mentioned yoga. Yoga was a smaller subsection of my study on mental health and wellness until 2015, when I found textual evidence, in her family’s memoir, that Rosa Parks had a four-decades-long yoga practice. 1. Enhancing Mind-Body Connection Rosa Parks Yoga practices focus on deepening the mind-body connection through mindful movement and breathwork. By participating in these yoga classes, individuals can cultivate a greater sense of self-awareness, allowing them to become more attuned to their physical and emotional needs. We are loving this great piece of yoga history as told by yoga instructor Ona (@sol.soul.sole.yoga) today! As Ona says, Rosa Parks found yoga later in life Black History Month Post 2 of 4 Rosa Parks and Yoga. Who knew? Read on to learn more. and view a lively discussion on the topic. In Black Women's Yoga History, Stephanie Y. Evans uses primary sources to answer that question and to show how meditation and yoga from eras of enslavement, segregation, and migration to the Civil Rights, Black Power, and New Age movements have been in existence all along. Life writings by Harriet Jacobs, Sadie and Bessie Delany, Eartha Kitt Presented in Dec. 2019, “Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words” featured Parks’ poetic and touching writing and her love for healthy practices like yoga and meditation. The photos circulated on
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