Yoga Program in Mexican Prison Helps Break Cycle of Addiction, Violence

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Yoga Program in Mexican Prison Helps Break Cycle of Addiction, Violence

By Lauren Villagran /Published November 14, 2011| Fox News Latino

Mexico City, Mexico –  David Arellano Lara was sentenced to 11 years for car theft and kidnapping. In his Mexican prison, he dealt drugs and smoked pot and crack.

But an innovative yoga program in prison designed to treat addicts proved to be his way out of addiction, out of jail and into a new life.

He remembers being locked in a cell too small for the 20 men inside—some of the prison’s worst offenders—and teaching yoga to them all from the confines of his bunk.

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