Gail Parker

Gail Parker is a psychologist, author, educator, and a lifelong practitioner of yoga. She became president of the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance (BYTA) Board of Directors in 2020. She 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 well-being of practitioners. She has been a featured psychology expert on nationally and internationally syndicated talk shows including numerous appearances on the Oprah Show.

Her first book, Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma, offers self-care strategies that support restoration, resilience, health and growth. It invites everyone, not just those directly impacted, to explore the intersection of yoga, race and ethnicity, and to consider the psychological impact of race-based stress and trauma on all of us.

Education

• Master's degree and PhD Wayne State University (1972 — 1976)
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Duquesne University (1963 — 1967)

Companies

• Author, Yoga Therapist Educator, Meditation Teacher and Coach Empowered by Yoga, LLC (2015)
• Founder and CEO Empowered by Yoga, LLC (2015)
• Psychologist Center for Conscious Living (1990 — 2015)
• Faculty Co-Curricular Yoga Therapy Program Wayne State University School of Medicine (2013 — 2015)
• Adjunct Professor University of Michigan Ross School of Business (1990 — 2003)
• Psychologist Psychological Institutes of Michigan (1986 — 1990)

Skills

• Teaching
• Executive Coaching
• Workshops

Other

Therapists, Coaching, Psychology, Public Speaking, Leadership Development, Meditation, Psychotherapy