In this heartfelt conversation, Sherry Steine welcomes Dr. Gail Parker—renowned psychologist, yoga therapist, and author—to explore the profound ways restorative yoga can support recovery from deep-seated wounds and generational stress. Dr. Parker shares her insights on integrating restorative yoga into a personal or professional healing practice, the role of rest as a radical act of self-care, and how this work nurtures the mind, body, and spirit. Whether you are a wellness professional, a yoga practitioner, or someone seeking tools for personal transformation, this episode offers compassionate wisdom and practical guidance for cultivating wholeness and renewal.

Gail Parker, Ph.D., C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, is an author, psychologist, and a yoga therapist educator.

She is the author of Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma and Transforming Ethnic and Race-Based Traumatic Stress with Yoga.

Dr. Parker is a lifelong practitioner of yoga and is well known for her pioneering efforts to blend psychology, yoga, and meditation as effective self-care strategies that can enhance emotional balance, and contribute to the overall health and wellbeing of practitioners. She teaches yoga therapists, yoga teachers, and behavioral health professionals how to utilize Restorative Yoga to support stress reduction and recovery from ethnic and race-based traumatic stress.