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How Georgia State University professor Dr. Stephanie Evans uncovered pictures of iconic Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks practicing yoga. Rosa Parks’s yoga practice inspired her advocacy. So, what does yoga do for you? Yoga inspires us to live authentically; it inspires us to bring peace into socially-unjust spaces; it inspires us to keep going. Surely, it inspired Rosa Parks toward all these things. 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. She also became a vegetarian and consulted a naturopathic doctor to improve her health. How many of you know that Rosa Parks, a deaconess in the AME Church, was not only taking yoga but teaching yoga? Too few people know this fact. This is the story of how I came to write a book about Black women’s yoga history and how doing this research has saved my life. 1 These images, from the Library of Congress (LoC), highlight a more intimate side of Parks outside of her work as a civil rights activist, and they tell a story about how, for Parks and other black movement workers, wellness and yoga can be radical acts of liberation. Last week a story published about Black women historically turning to yoga to find peace. The story was for our Black History Month edition and featured one of the most notable woman in the civil Vibe Magazine once called Rosa Parks the unsung hero of Black Wellness because of her yoga, meditation practices, and poetic writing. Rosa Parks' self-care routine helps to dispel the notion Rosa Parks had an interest in Buddhism. In her senior years she took yoga classes and added Buddhist meditation to her prayers. She also became a vegetarian and consulted a naturopathic doctor to improve her health. - Title devised by Library staff. - Forms part of: Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress). Civil rights icon Rosa Parks used yoga as a way to preserve her own well-being as early as the 1960s. Photos of Parks doing yoga have gone viral. 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 Title: [Rosa Parks practicing yoga] Date Created/Published: 1973 March. Medium: 1 photograph : color print ; 12.7 x 8.8 cm. Summary: Photograph showing Rosa Parks in leotards on knees on yoga mat. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-58369 (digital file from original item) 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. After diving into the Library of Congress archives, I found photo evidence that Mrs. Parks not only took yoga classes but gave public demonstrations "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." 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. 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 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 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. 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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