{"id":7333,"date":"2008-12-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/12\/28\/manhattan-homeless-benefit-from-yoga-httpwwwhinduonnetcomthehinduholnus003200812251633htm\/"},"modified":"2008-12-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T12:00:00","slug":"manhattan-homeless-benefit-from-yoga-httpwwwhinduonnetcomthehinduholnus003200812251633htm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/12\/28\/manhattan-homeless-benefit-from-yoga-httpwwwhinduonnetcomthehinduholnus003200812251633htm\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Homeless Benefit From Yoga http:\/\/www.hinduonnet.com\/thehindu\/holnus\/003200812251633.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\">\n<p class=\"summary\">Instructor Karen Nourizadeh is offering yoga lessons to a group of homless at an East Side shelter to help them center their topsy-turvy lives. &#8220;I want to do yoga for people who really need it. I really want them to take all that pressure and stress and throw it out the window.&#8221; Participants arrive wearing tattered clothes and tired expressions, and Nourizadeh leads them through a series of basic yoga exercises to limber them up and relax their minds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was great. I&#8217;m not feeling as tense as I was. Anything you&#8217;re thinking about just leaves at that moment. You just relax,&#8221; said a 29-year-old homeless named Steve. Another young man named Frank, attending for the third time, said he&#8217;s been taking computer networking classes with a goal of trying to get off the streets. &#8220;[Yoga] encourages me to focus&#8230; I feel so energetic right now and more confident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instructor Karen Nourizadeh is offering yoga lessons to a group of homless at an East Side shelter to help them,&#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-7333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333","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=7333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}