Yoga and the Community Habilitation Center

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For the past few months I began practicing yoga and visiting the individuals at the Community Habilitation Center. Even though the amount of time I have spent practicing yoga and visiting CHC has been short, I feel as though my experiences have been transforming me into a better person. The connection I see between yoga and CHC is that both have helped and taught me to be a better person in many ways. Both of the experiences has helped me lighten my mood, see the state of the body better, taught me to see the world positively, and it has also helped me gain confidence. My experiences with practicing yoga and going to CHC have been a positive influence in my life.

Yoga and CHC has affected me in the sense that they have both helped me lighten my mood and relax for once. In a way they have both helped me shut off the outside world and focus on the now in the sense that it makes me forget about my daily problems and stresses and allows me to go to a happy place. Some of my peers have told me it is because they serve as distractions from the real world, but I doubt it really works that way. I believe that they help me shut off my mind in reality, because both experiences make me feel so occupied with what I am doing at the moment that by the time I am finished, my mind is left with a blank slate and would end up feeling so refreshed since I don’t have anything to ponder over for once. The movie Praying with Lior, shows how Lior was able to disconnect himself from the world around him and focus on the present and his connection with God. I was able to relate to this because of how I feel disconnected from the world when I am practicing yoga and as I spend time with the individuals at CHC.

One thing that I know for sure is th...

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... to CHC have been a positive influence to become a better person. So that is the connection I see between my experiences with yoga and CHC.

Works Cited

Carson, Sandra. "Seeing the Good." Ekhart Yoga. N.p., 28 Mar. 2012. Web. 13 Mar. 2014.

Ekhart, Esther. "Yoga and Your Body Image." Ekhart Yoga. N.p., 05 June 2012. Web. 25 Mar. 2014.

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown. Dir. Jim Sheridan. Perf. Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker. Miramax Films, 1989. Amazon.com. Web. 24 Mar. 2014.

Praying with Lior. Dir. Ilana Trachtman. First Run Features, 2008. Amazon.com. Web. 25 Mar. 2014.

Sanford, Matthew. "The Body's Grace." Interview by Krista Tippett. On Being. N.p., 3 May 2013. Web. 13 Mar. 2014.

Vanier, Jean. "The Wisdom of Tenderness: Lived Compassion, L'Arche, and Becoming Human." Interview by Krista Tippett. On Being. N.p., 22 Aug. 2103. Web. 13 Mar. 2014.

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