{"product_id":"queer-dharma","title":"Queer Dharma","description":"\u003cb\u003eQueer critique, queer practice: embodied teachings for healing from trauma and social injustice.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cli\u003eWhat is trauma? How is it a product of injustice--and how can healing it create justice?\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe world won''t stop being homo- and transphobic, so how do I encounter that in a way that does the least harm?\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eHow do we love what is uniquely trans about us?\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eWhat are affinity groups, and why do we need them?\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57314421408126,"sku":"NW9781623176518","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781623176518.jpg?v=1778649583","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/queer-dharma","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}