Queens fitness club offers free yoga classes for veterans
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Can stressed-out veterans go from “hooah!” to “om?” Apparently so, according to a new partnership between New York Sports Clubs and the Queens Vet Center, which provides free yoga classes for veterans at the Glendale gym in Queens.
Vet Center counselor Francisca Nazario said the classes will help veterans heal from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and readjust to civilian life.
At the Center, we believe that healing from trauma involves the body, mind and spirit, which is really the essence of yoga. That is why we were so grateful when the New York Sports Clubs volunteered to organize classes for our vets.
The concept of helping veterans through yoga has been around for a while – check out this NPR story about a similar program in Massachusetts last year. No word yet on whether this kind of program will be offered at any of New York Sports Clubs locations in the Lower Hudson Valley … but, I dimly recall having heard something a few months ago about fitness programs for veterans in Rockland, or elsewhere in our area, so let me know if you can jog my memory…
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on Thursday, May 15th, 2008 at 5:21 am by Nicole Neroulias. 
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Great info you put out. Please add that vets from around the U.S. can take 4 (or more) free yoga classes by going to http://www.yogaforvets.org.
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Thank you for your help!