{"product_id":"a-queer-dharma-yoga-and-meditations-for-liberation-9781623176518","title":"A Queer Dharma: Yoga and Meditations for Liberation","description":"\u003cb\u003eQueer critique, queer practice: embodied teachings for healing from trauma and social injustice.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJacoby 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart I deconstructs the ways mainstream yoga perpetuates queer- and transphobia and other systemic oppressions, exploring the intersections of yoga, capitalism, cultural appropriation, and sexual violence. Ballard also addresses the trauma--complex, vicarious, historical, and collective--perpetuated against queer communities. In response, he offers tools for self-compassion, tonglen, lovingkindness, and grounding, and helps readers explore questions like: \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e What is trauma? How is it a product of injustice--and how can healing it create justice?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e The world won't stop being homo- and transphobic, so how do I encounter that in a way that does the least harm?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e How do we love what is uniquely trans about us?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e What are affinity groups, and why do we need them? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn part II, Ballard offers a queer-centered, fully embodied, and equity-rooted practice with meditations, practices, and sequences for processing and healing from trauma individually and in community. He explains concepts like lovingkindness, letting go, compassion, joy, forgiveness, and equanimity through a queer lens, and pairs each with corresponding meditations, practices, and beautiful line drawings of queer bodies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEnhanced with stories from Ballard's personal practice and professional experience teaching yoga in schools, prisons, conferences, and his weekly Queer and Trans Yoga class, \u003ci\u003eA Queer Dharma\u003c\/i\u003e is a guidebook, reclamation, and unapologetically queer heart offering for true healing and transformation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e North Atlantic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/16\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781623176518\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288","brand":"Jacoby Ballard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41262013513909,"sku":"9781623176518","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_941ce21f-28ac-43b4-bfc4-4a41461aadc7.jpg?v=1634653786","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-queer-dharma-yoga-and-meditations-for-liberation-9781623176518","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}