Yoga: A quiet escape for healthcare professionals

"Namaste everyone, the first thing I want you to do is relax and concentrate on your breathing" are among the first words you may hear when participating in an everyday yoga class held in a spacious of a classroom, glamourous physical fitness club or in the privacy of one's own living room, but to hear those words among co-workers in the small confines of a hospital waiting area in Afghanistan where an office chair may inhibit you from fully extending yourself in the Warrior Two pose, after having spent three hours in an operating room, then it might mean that much more to you.
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