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Combatting years of wartime trauma with a different sort of warrior pose [WashingtonPost.com]

 

In a quiet room in Old Town Alexandria the students sit quietly on mats, facing an altar with mala beads and a meditation singing bowl. For the next eleven days they will spend most of their waking hours together, bonding as they go through rigorous training to become yoga teachers.

It might be any teacher training program in this yoga-obsessed metropolitan area, but look at the students snap to when the teacher says, “Eyes front.” See how the guest lecturer’s “’Morning, everyone,” elicits a reflexive, synchronized “’Morning, sir!” And who are those dogs sitting along the periphery, one starting to whine as she senses elevated cortisol levels in her owner.



[For more of this story, written by Tara Bahrampour, go to https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.f49bfe4e5b9d]

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