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Ballard, Jacoby, 1980- author.

A queer dharma : yoga and meditations for liberation / Jacoby Ballard ; foreword by Susanna Barkataki.

Berkeley, California : North Atlantic Books, [2021]

xxvi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Jacoby Ballard provides an empowering and affirming guide to embodied healing through yoga and the dharma, grounded in the brilliance, resilience, and lived experiences of queer folks. Enhanced with stories from Ballard's personal practice and professional experience teaching yoga in schools, prisons, conferences, and his weekly Queer and Trans Yoga class, A Queer Dharma is a guidebook, reclamation, and unapologetically queer heart offering for true healing and transformation.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-256).

Yoga.

Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.

Toleration -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.

Transgender people -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.

HEALTH & FITNESS / Yoga.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General.

RELIGION / Buddhism / Rituals & Practice.

Informational works.

Barkataki, Susanna, writer of foreword.

Foreword / by Susanna Barkataki -- Introduction -- Part 1. Queer dharma -- Acceptance and letting go -- Anger and sustainability -- Compassion : the violence stops with me -- Forgiveness : releasing the burden -- A tussle with equanimity -- We are fabulous : an invitation into joy -- Loving ourselves whole practice -- Part 2. Queering yoga -- Not living our yoga, just selling it : yoga and capitalism -- Cultural appropriation and yoga -- Liberatory models of yoga and Buddhism -- Teaching queer and trans yoga -- Injustice produces trauma ; healing creates conditions for justice -- Conclusion : a path from here -- Appendix A : Asana sequences -- Appendix B: Pranayama practices.

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