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How yoga is helping girls heal from trauma

  • Written by Rebecca Epstein, Executive Director, Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality, Georgetown University
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Rocsana Enriquez started thinking about yoga again when she was pregnant. She was 19 and in an abusive relationship.

When she was younger, Rocsana, whom I interviewed as part of my research, had taken part in a yoga program in a San Francisco Bay Area juvenile hall run by The Art of Yoga Project. She began...

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