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Yoga transforms lives of Kenyans
March 28, 2013 - Nairobi, Kenya: Yoga is taught to special needs students at Dagoretti Children's Center. The Africa Yoga Project and volunteer teachers, led by Sharon Moon, a Jois fellow, teach yoga to handicapped, autistic and deaf children as part of the outreach program that seeks to provide free yoga classes across Nairobi to marginalized communities. Each week 70 yoga teachers find their way into prisons, special needs schools, social centers for the disabled and into the shanty towns to offer free yoga classes to Kenya's most marginalized populations. Most of the teachers began lives among the people they now serve. The teachers, most born into the grinding poverty of Nairobi's slums, have been trained and offered teaching jobs with Africa Yoga Project, a charity organization. Africa Yoga Project was founded by American Yoga teacher Paige Elenson after a Safari to Kenya with her parents. She befriended a group of acrobats and offered a few lessons in yoga. The acrobats invited her back for more. She came back to teach and stayed to found the organization.Africa Yoga project continues to train Kenyan and other African yoga teachers. This year they held the first ever international teacher training session where American and Canadian students studied side by side with Students from Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda and South Africa. Elenson predicts that in addition to changing lives a blossoming yoga culture will have an economic impact on East Africa in the years to come. That transformation is already apparent in the lives of the teachers, formerly unemployed youth, who now earn a living teaching yoga across the city. (Brendan Bannon / Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Yoga transforms lives of Kenyans
March 28, 2013 - Nairobi, Kenya: Stanley Wangewa leads a yoga class for special needs students. "They have taught me patience and compassion," Wangewa says, referring to his pupils. Yoga is taught to special needs students at Dagoretti Children's Center. The Africa Yoga Project and volunteer teachers led by Sharon Moon, a Jois fellow, teach yoga to handicapped, autistic and deaf children as part of the outreach program that seeks to provide free yoga classes across Nairobi to marginalized communities. Each week 70 yoga teachers find their way into prisons, special needs schools, social centers for the disabled and into the shanty towns to offer free yoga classes to Kenya's most marginalized populations. Most of the teachers began lives among the people they now serve. The teachers, most born into the grinding poverty of Nairobi's slums, have been trained and offered teaching jobs with Africa Yoga Project, a charity organization. Africa Yoga Project was founded by American Yoga teacher Paige Elenson after a Safari to Kenya with her parents. She befriended a group of acrobats and offered a few lessons in yoga. The acrobats invited her back for more. She came back to teach and stayed to found the organization.Africa Yoga project continues to train Kenyan and other African yoga teachers. This year they held the first ever international teacher training session where American and Canadian students studied side by side with Students from Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda and South Africa. Elenson predicts that in addition to changing lives a blossoming yoga culture will have an economic impact on East Africa in the years to come. That transformation is already apparent in the lives of the teachers, formerly unemployed youth, who now earn a living teaching yoga across the city. (Brendan Bannon / Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Yoga transforms lives of Kenyans
March 28, 2013 - Nairobi, Kenya: Yoga is taught to special needs students at Dagoretti Children's Center. The Africa Yoga Project and volunteer teachers, led by Sharon Moon, a Jois fellow, teach yoga to handicapped, autistic and deaf children as part of the outreach program that seeks to provide free yoga classes across Nairobi to marginalized communities. Each week 70 yoga teachers find their way into prisons, special needs schools, social centers for the disabled and into the shanty towns to offer free yoga classes to Kenya's most marginalized populations. Most of the teachers began lives among the people they now serve. The teachers, most born into the grinding poverty of Nairobi's slums, have been trained and offered teaching jobs with Africa Yoga Project, a charity organization. Africa Yoga Project was founded by American Yoga teacher Paige Elenson after a Safari to Kenya with her parents. She befriended a group of acrobats and offered a few lessons in yoga. The acrobats invited her back for more. She came back to teach and stayed to found the organization.Africa Yoga project continues to train Kenyan and other African yoga teachers. This year they held the first ever international teacher training session where American and Canadian students studied side by side with Students from Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda and South Africa. Elenson predicts that in addition to changing lives a blossoming yoga culture will have an economic impact on East Africa in the years to come. That transformation is already apparent in the lives of the teachers, formerly unemployed youth, who now earn a living teaching yoga across the city. (Brendan Bannon / Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Yoga transforms lives of Kenyans
March 28, 2013 - Nairobi, Kenya: Stanley Wangewa leads a yoga class for special needs students. "They have taught me patience and compassion," Wangewa says, referring to his pupils. Yoga is taught to special needs students at Dagoretti Children's Center. The Africa Yoga Project and volunteer teachers led by Sharon Moon, a Jois fellow, teach yoga to handicapped, autistic and deaf children as part of the outreach program that seeks to provide free yoga classes across Nairobi to marginalized communities. Each week 70 yoga teachers find their way into prisons, special needs schools, social centers for the disabled and into the shanty towns to offer free yoga classes to Kenya's most marginalized populations. Most of the teachers began lives among the people they now serve. The teachers, most born into the grinding poverty of Nairobi's slums, have been trained and offered teaching jobs with Africa Yoga Project, a charity organization. Africa Yoga Project was founded by American Yoga teacher Paige Elenson after a Safari to Kenya with her parents. She befriended a group of acrobats and offered a few lessons in yoga. The acrobats invited her back for more. She came back to teach and stayed to found the organization.Africa Yoga project continues to train Kenyan and other African yoga teachers. This year they held the first ever international teacher training session where American and Canadian students studied side by side with Students from Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda and South Africa. Elenson predicts that in addition to changing lives a blossoming yoga culture will have an economic impact on East Africa in the years to come. That transformation is already apparent in the lives of the teachers, formerly unemployed youth, who now earn a living teaching yoga across the city. (Brendan Bannon / Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Yoga transforms lives of Kenyans
March 28, 2013 - Nairobi, Kenya: Deaf students rest in Savasana or corpse pose after a yoga class led by deaf instructors from Africa Yoga Project.Yoga is taught to special needs students at Dagoretti Children's Center. Africa Yoga Project and volunteer teachers led by Sharon Moon a Jois fellow, teach yoga to handicapped, autistic and deaf children as part of the outreach program that seeks to provide free yoga classes across Nairobi to marginalized communities. Each week 70 yoga teachers find their way into prisons, special needs schools, social centers for the disabled and into the shanty towns to offer free yoga classes to Kenya's most marginalized populations. Most of the teachers began lives among the people they now serve. The teachers, most born into the grinding poverty of Nairobi's slums, have been trained and offered teaching jobs with Africa Yoga Project, a charity organization. Africa Yoga Project was founded by American Yoga teacher Paige Elenson after a Safari to Kenya with her parents. She befriended a group of acrobats and offered a few lessons in yoga. The acrobats invited her back for more. She came back to teach and stayed to found the organization.Africa Yoga project continues to train Kenyan and other African yoga teachers. This year they held the first ever international teacher training session where American and Canadian students studied side by side with Students from Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda and South Africa. Elenson predicts that in addition to changing lives a blossoming yoga culture will have an economic impact on East Africa in the years to come. That transformation is already apparent in the lives of the teachers, formerly unemployed youth, who now earn a living teaching yoga across the city. (Brendan Bannon / Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Yoga transforms lives of Kenyans
March 28, 2013 - Nairobi, Kenya: A young boy demonstrated his strength to the amusement of his peers. Yoga is taught to special needs students at Dagoretti Children's Center. Africa Yoga Project and volunteer teachers led by Sharon Moon a Jois fellow, teach yoga to handicapped, autistic and deaf children as part of the outreach program that seeks to provide free yoga classes across Nairobi to marginalized communities. Each week 70 yoga teachers find their way into prisons, special needs schools, social centers for the disabled and into the shanty towns to offer free yoga classes to Kenya's most marginalized populations. Most of the teachers began lives among the people they now serve. The teachers, most born into the grinding poverty of Nairobi's slums, have been trained and offered teaching jobs with Africa Yoga Project, a charity organization. Africa Yoga Project was founded by American Yoga teacher Paige Elenson after a Safari to Kenya with her parents. She befriended a group of acrobats and offered a few lessons in yoga. The acrobats invited her back for more. She came back to teach and stayed to found the organization.Africa Yoga project continues to train Kenyan and other African yoga teachers. This year they held the first ever international teacher training session where American and Canadian students studied side by side with Students from Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda and South Africa. Elenson predicts that in addition to changing lives a blossoming yoga culture will have an economic impact on East Africa in the years to come. That transformation is already apparent in the lives of the teachers, formerly unemployed youth, who now earn a living teaching yoga across the city. (Brendan Bannon / Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Yoga transforms lives of Kenyans
March 28, 2013 - Nairobi, Kenya: Sharon Moon, an Ashtanga Yoga teacher looked on through the window as Stanley Wangewa, black shirt, led a yoga class for special needs students. "they have taughht me patience and compassion," Wangewa said of his pupils. Yoga is taught to special needs students at Dagoretti Children's Center. Africa Yoga Project and volunteer teachers led by Sharon Moon a Jois fellow, teach yoga to handicapped, autistic and deaf children as part of the outreach program that seeks to provide free yoga classes across Nairobi to marginalized communities. Each week 70 yoga teachers find their way into prisons, special needs schools, social centers for the disabled and into the shanty towns to offer free yoga classes to Kenya's most marginalized populations. Most of the teachers began lives among the people they now serve. The teachers, most born into the grinding poverty of Nairobi's slums, have been trained and offered teaching jobs with Africa Yoga Project, a charity organization. Africa Yoga Project was founded by American Yoga teacher Paige Elenson after a Safari to Kenya with her parents. She befriended a group of acrobats and offered a few lessons in yoga. The acrobats invited her back for more. She came back to teach and stayed to found the organization.Africa Yoga project continues to train Kenyan and other African yoga teachers. This year they held the first ever international teacher training session where American and Canadian students studied side by side with Students from Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda and South Africa. Elenson predicts that in addition to changing lives a blossoming yoga culture will have an economic impact on East Africa in the years to come. That transformation is already apparent in the lives of the teachers, formerly unemployed youth, who now earn a living teaching yoga across the city. (Brendan Bannon / Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Yoga transforms lives of Kenyans
March 28, 2013 - Nairobi, Kenya: A student bangs on the corrugated plastic windows where others are practicing yoga. Yoga is taught to special needs students at Dagoretti Children's Center. Africa Yoga Project and volunteer teachers led by Sharon Moon a Jois fellow, teach yoga to handicapped, autistic and deaf children as part of the outreach program that seeks to provide free yoga classes across Nairobi to marginalized communities. Each week 70 yoga teachers find their way into prisons, special needs schools, social centers for the disabled and into the shanty towns to offer free yoga classes to Kenya's most marginalized populations. Most of the teachers began lives among the people they now serve. The teachers, most born into the grinding poverty of Nairobi's slums, have been trained and offered teaching jobs with Africa Yoga Project, a charity organization. Africa Yoga Project was founded by American Yoga teacher Paige Elenson after a Safari to Kenya with her parents. She befriended a group of acrobats and offered a few lessons in yoga. The acrobats invited her back for more. She came back to teach and stayed to found the organization.Africa Yoga project continues to train Kenyan and other African yoga teachers. This year they held the first ever international teacher training session where American and Canadian students studied side by side with Students from Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda and South Africa. Elenson predicts that in addition to changing lives a blossoming yoga culture will have an economic impact on East Africa in the years to come. That transformation is already apparent in the lives of the teachers, formerly unemployed youth, who now earn a living teaching yoga across the city. (Brendan Bannon / Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Yoga transforms lives of Kenyans
March 28, 2013 - Nairobi, Kenya: Yoga student, Jeff Mueni, is a 13 year old with cerebral palsy. Yoga is taught to special needs students at Dagoretti Children's Center. Africa Yoga Project and volunteer teachers led by Sharon Moon a Jois fellow, teach yoga to handicapped, autistic and deaf children as part of the outreach program that seeks to provide free yoga classes across Nairobi to marginalized communities. Each week 70 yoga teachers find their way into prisons, special needs schools, social centers for the disabled and into the shanty towns to offer free yoga classes to Kenya's most marginalized populations. Most of the teachers began lives among the people they now serve. The teachers, most born into the grinding poverty of Nairobi's slums, have been trained and offered teaching jobs with Africa Yoga Project, a charity organization. Africa Yoga Project was founded by American Yoga teacher Paige Elenson after a Safari to Kenya with her parents. She befriended a group of acrobats and offered a few lessons in yoga. The acrobats invited her back for more. She came back to teach and stayed to found the organization.Africa Yoga project continues to train Kenyan and other African yoga teachers. This year they held the first ever international teacher training session where American and Canadian students studied side by side with Students from Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda and South Africa. Elenson predicts that in addition to changing lives a blossoming yoga culture will have an economic impact on East Africa in the years to come. That transformation is already apparent in the lives of the teachers, formerly unemployed youth, who now earn a living teaching yoga across the city. (Brendan Bannon / Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Yoga transforms lives of Kenyans
March 28, 2013 - Nairobi, Kenya: Students play after a yoga class. Yoga is taught to special needs students at Dagoretti Children's Center. Africa Yoga Project and volunteer teachers led by Sharon Moon a Jois fellow, teach yoga to handicapped, autistic and deaf children as part of the outreach program that seeks to provide free yoga classes across Nairobi to marginalized communities. Each week 70 yoga teachers find their way into prisons, special needs schools, social centers for the disabled and into the shanty towns to offer free yoga classes to Kenya's most marginalized populations. Most of the teachers began lives among the people they now serve. The teachers, most born into the grinding poverty of Nairobi's slums, have been trained and offered teaching jobs with Africa Yoga Project, a charity organization. Africa Yoga Project was founded by American Yoga teacher Paige Elenson after a Safari to Kenya with her parents. She befriended a group of acrobats and offered a few lessons in yoga. The acrobats invited her back for more. She came back to teach and stayed to found the organization.Africa Yoga project continues to train Kenyan and other African yoga teachers. This year they held the first ever international teacher training session where American and Canadian students studied side by side with Students from Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda and South Africa. Elenson predicts that in addition to changing lives a blossoming yoga culture will have an economic impact on East Africa in the years to come. That transformation is already apparent in the lives of the teachers, formerly unemployed youth, who now earn a living teaching yoga across the city. (Brendan Bannon / Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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