Yoga can help enthusiasts achieve healthy eyesight and inner peace
Many yoga practitioners believe that the holistic mind-body regimen – which consists of deep breathing exercises, gentle poses and soothing stretches – can help them achieve healthy eyesight. The program includes many techniques that are designed to not only bring about natural stress relief, but also strengthen and improve vision. These benefits are just a few experienced by the millions of Americans who engage in yoga on a regular basis. A popular Reuters article that has been shared and re-shared on Twitter reports that a volunteer instructor is bringing the tranquil art to women in a Pakistani prison.
Yoga teacher Aisha Chapra established the innovative yoga program to help the female inmates find inner peace, relax and alleviate tension. Such an environment can be stressful for many inhabitants, and Chapra believes that calming the prisoners with yoga can result in a more comfortable living space.
"I have seen a great change in the girls since they started doing yoga," said police official and prison administrator Sheeba Shah, quoted by the news source. "They have become less stressful and you can see a more positive attitude."
According to Chapra, she got the idea for a prison-based yoga program from one that she witnessed in India at the Bhopal Central Jail, which holds some of the country's most infamous convicts. Since the holistic regimen was introduced there, officials have reported significant reductions in violent incidents. Chapra was inspired by this idea and by her own devotion to the Eastern art.
"I teach yoga at another location and the money I get from teaching, I divert the funds for what the inmates might need," she told Reuters.
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