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“Sasha started practicing yoga at age 50, when her husband left her for another owman after 28
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“Today, after two years of daily yoga, the San Francisco high school teacher claims that she has
been physically and mentally transformed. ‘I’m not a victim anymore. I can create peace and
happiness in my body and my mind follows,’ she exults. ‘Despair still comes back now and then,
but I know that relief is only one yoga session away.”
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ongoing war on terrorism? Yoga offers a time-tested arsenal of weapons against the forces of
ignorance and delusion that feed fear.”
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