Everyone has heard about the story of Rosa Parks and her refusal to give up her seat on
the bus in the segregated American South.
This started a boycott that helped change American society.
From the Library of Congress:
Rosa Parks had an interest in Buddhism. In her senior years, she took yoga classes and added Buddhist meditation to her prayers. She also became a vegetarian and consulted a naturopathic doctor to improve her health.
Rosa Parks was not only taking yoga, she was also teaching yoga. So this idea of self-care in the Black feminist and African feminist context is not about self and survival only. – Harvard Divinity Bulletin
Rosa Parks practicing yoga at an event, n.d. Photograph. Visual Materials from the
Rosa Parks Papers, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (056.00.00)
Read more about Rosa Parks and her Yoga practice in Yoga Journal, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, USA Today, the Sante Fe Community Center website, and GirlsUnited.