Gail Parker

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 (2020) and is the current president of the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance (BYTA) Board of Directors. Her broad expertise in behavioral health and wellness includes forty years as a practicing psychologist. 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 health care providers how to utilize Restorative Yoga to support stress reduction and recovery from ethnic and race-based traumatic stress.