Gail Parker, Ph.D., E-RYT 500, C-IAYT is an author, educator, speaker, and workshop presenter specializing in addressing stress reduction and trauma recovery through the applicationof Restorative Yoga. She is the author of the books, Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma, and Transforming Ethnic and Race-Based Traumatic Stress with Yoga. She is currently a consultant/facilitator on the team of The Lead Highland Project, and is a consultant and workshop presenter for Shay’s Warriors: Life After Cancer. She is President Emerita of the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance Board of Directors.

A lifelong practitioner of yoga, and a retired psychologist, Gail Parker 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 overall health and well-being. She is a former faculty member in the Kripalu School of Integrative Yoga Therapy in Stockbridge Massachusetts in the mental health module from 2021-2023; a former consultant to the Accelerator Workshop at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute on: Stress Management and Resiliency Program for African Americans in 2023; a former faculty member in the Beaumont School of Yoga Therapy in the department of Integrative Medicine at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak Michigan, 2015-2020, and a former faculty member in the ground breaking Co-Curricular Yoga Therapy Program at Wayne State University School of Medicine, 2013-2015. Gail was an adjunct faculty member in the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, teaching executive coaching and counseling.

Gail Parker has appeared as a psychologist expert on local and nationally syndicated talk shows, including numerous appearances on the “Oprah Show”. She was featured as a health and wellness expert on the benefits of yoga and meditation in a nationally syndicated PBS health talk show series called “Feel Grand”, hosted by Emmy Award winning actress, Jane Seymour. She has been a frequently featured psychology guest expert on the internationally acclaimed medical life style “Ask Dr. Nandi Show.” She hosted a local radio talk show called Ask the Psychologist in Detroit, MI from 1983-1988. She authored a blog called Taking Yoga Off Your Mat from 2010-2015.