The yoga class is intended to help heal the self by relaxing and redirecting physical energy and mental urges.
What isn't yoga good for? Besides being a model regimen for the pursuit of flexibility, strength, relaxation, tranquility and all-around good health, numerous studies have suggested that it may augment drug rehabilitation programs.
A columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer admitted as much when he stumbled across a yoga-based treatment system stationed in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.
The yoga class, which is run by teacher Mary Kate Farley, is intended to help heal the self by relaxing and redirecting physical energy and mental urges.
"Yoga is a mind, body, spirit practice," Farley told the news source.
She added that tranquility is not a sensation that can come from anything outside an individual. Instead, it is a state of being that only exists in those who eschew the world of stress, craving and addiction in favor of one of peace.
"During the week, I would teach people how to lead a clean and sober life, and then on the weekends I'd go on a drinking binge," she admitted to the source, adding that yoga helps a burdened mind gradually let go of addiction.
