photo credit: eMuse Tess Heder

One of my favorite things to do is to advise people seeking careers in the nonprofit sector.   Another one of my favorite things to do is to practice yoga (albeit begrudgingly, but the results are great!).   So, you can imagine how delighted I was to see the article by Emma Brown in the Washington Post entitled “Activists Aim to Make Yoga an Exercise in Accessibility”. I personally consider it a privilege that my lifestyle affords me the time, income, and mental space to practice yoga.  But, people like  Monea Hendrick, an African American doctoral candidate at Howard University who started practicing yoga to relieve stress during college, are making a difference in bringing Yoga to  some who are less privileged.  She says she “wanted to bring yoga to at-risk teens, especially minorities. It doesn’t have to be an expensive, upscale, Northwest D.C. thing — it can actually meet people exactly where they are.”   Congratulations to Monea and the others who are bringing yoga to the classroom and the streets.   As it happens, I too am engaging in a project to bring movement meditation to women in an Alternative to Incarceration program in East Harlem, New York City.   I’ll keep you posted as that project emerges!