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Photo: Miguel Samper for Mercy Corps
blog Colombia April 30, 2010 4:45PM

Video: Asana Ipiales

Dan Sadowsky
Dan Sadowsky
Website, Content and Services Team Manager
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In Colombia, Mercy Corps uses sports as a way to teach youth values such as teamwork and respect. At the beginning and end of each session, the youth do yoga poses to help them relax and concentrate.

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sfauthor

May 1, 2010 5:07PM

Great posting! Do you know about these yoga books?

http://www.yogavidya.com/freepdfs.html

Andreaburniske

May 6, 2010 1:22PM

These look very interesting. The situation here is that we have to be very careful with these yoga classes. People are concerned that they are trying to teach different religious practices. So, we generally express that yoga is a way to foster greater focus and concentration, and to reduce stress, and to promote personal awareness. I would be very happy if these kids use yoga to help overcome some of the trauma they face in these very vulnerable neighborhoods. We developed these tools especially for displaced kids, kids that have been exploited sexually, and kids who have suffered high levels of violence and conflict in their lives. This class you see that Dan has filmed is one of their first, so topics that provide opportunities to overcome these other issues are being introduced as well.

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