{"pk":41887,"title":"Be Still, Be Present: Black Girl Yoga and Digital Counter Spaces","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Controlling images of Black womanhood and the exclusivity of mainstream wellness spaces complicate Black women’s relationship to yoga. The purpose of this study is to explore how a popular Instagram page, Black Girl Yoga, engages Black women with the spiritual practice. A combined Visual Discourse Analysis (VDA) and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) revealed that BGY engages Black women with yoga by a) constructing a culture of inclusivity, b) affirming the individuality of Black women, c) intertextualizing African American cultural discourse and yogic principles, d) decentering Black women’s oppression, and e) creating continuity with physical yoga counter spaces. Implications for theory and praxis are discussed.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Black women"},{"word":"Controlling Images"},{"word":"Digital Counter Spaces"},{"word":"the Mammy"},{"word":"Wellness"},{"word":"Yoga"}],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6q3473t2","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Shanice","middle_name":"Jones","last_name":"Cameron","name_suffix":"","institution":"Other","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2019-02-28T13:00:41-08:00","date_accepted":"2019-02-28T13:00:41-08:00","date_published":"2019-11-16T15:07:14-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/raceandyoga/article/41887/galley/31296/download/"}]}