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/