At the end, they lay unmoving on their backs in savasana, or corpse pose, drawing audibly deeper breaths as the minutes passed.
“Remember this feeling in your daily life,” said Long, rousing them with her voice. “You can always come back to this feeling of relaxation and release.”
The class, for students in Upward Bound, a program that prepares low-income youths for college, is part of a growing movement to take yoga beyond its reputation as boutique exercise for the well-to-do and use it as therapy for groups such as at-risk and homeless youths, HIV/AIDS patients and torture survivors.
via Yoga Activists Say Classes Shouldn’t Require a Financial Stretch – washingtonpost.com.