Monday, March 16, 2015

Mindfulness programs gaining traction as resource for urban youth

"Does anyone else have another four-syllable mantra for us?" Cheryl Nichols, the co-founder of Mindfulness Through Movement, a nonprofit that provides urban youth in 11 Philadelphia schools with mindfulness yogic practices, asks the children.

A thin boy in a red polo shoots up an excited hand.

"I-like-LEG-Os," he hums, and the class follows suit.

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