{"id":14430,"date":"2015-09-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/09\/01\/yoga-in-palestine-the-search-for-inner-peace-amid-ongoing-conflict\/"},"modified":"2015-09-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T12:00:00","slug":"yoga-in-palestine-the-search-for-inner-peace-amid-ongoing-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/09\/01\/yoga-in-palestine-the-search-for-inner-peace-amid-ongoing-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoga in Palestine: The Search for Inner Peace Amid Ongoing Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development-professionals-network\/20\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PALESTINE, August 27, 2015 (The Guardian): A lack of yoga teachers, and a social stigma from the belief that the practice had something to do with a foreign religion, meant that until recently not many Palestinians had had exposure to yoga or meditation. But in 2010 Farashe opened a volunteer-based nonprofit community yoga centre in Ramallah that focuses on outreach.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012 and 2013, Farashe was boosted when Washington DC-based nonprofit Anahata International ran teacher training for Palestinian women to take the self-care techniques into their communities on the West Bank. With training from Farashe and others, over the last three years, about 80 men and women have become yoga teachers. <\/p>\n<p>Today, yoga-based practices are integrated into community centres and gyms, not only among the elite of cosmopolitan Ramallah, but also in the small villages. It&#8217;s used in health clinics in crowded refugee camps, and in classes at small private studios led by new teachers trained by international volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>Much more at source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source PALESTINE, August 27, 2015 (The Guardian): A lack of yoga teachers, and a social stigma from the belief that,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}