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A Queer Dharma

Yoga and Meditations for Liberation

by Jacoby Ballard
Susanna Barkataki
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Queer critique, queer practice: embodied teachings for healing from trauma and social injustice.
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.
Part 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:
  •  What is trauma? How is it a product of injustice—and how can healing it create justice?
  •  The world won't stop being homo- and transphobic, so how do I encounter that in a way that does the least harm?
  •  How do we love what is uniquely trans about us?
  •  What are affinity groups, and why do we need them?
In 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.
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.

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    April 12, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9781623177829
      • File size: 288636 KB
      • Duration: 10:01:19

  • Languages

    • English

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    • Booklist

      November 1, 2021
      Ballard, who is trans, is a social justice educator and yoga teacher. Since 2006, he's taught queer and trans yoga, the foundation for this enlightening book. Or, as the author puts it: "This book is a queer approach to the practices of yoga and Buddhism." Nevertheless, it invites, as well, a straight cisgender readership. It should be noted in this context, though, that because Ballard presumes a great deal of knowledge on the part of readers, this book is not for novices. Divided into two parts, Queer Dharma and Queering Yoga, the book focuses on the intersection of social justice and yoga. Less attention is given to its physical aspects and far more to yoga as a whole, encompassing ethical practices, daily observances, meditation, and more steps that "invite us into a deeper way of being." The resulting peace of mind has, amazingly, made yoga a $27 billion industry that comes perilously close to turning the practice into a commodity. Happily, this informative book returns yoga to its roots.

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