Khepera Sankara was at rock bottom when she attended her first yoga class in 2013. It was an Ashtanga class taught by yoga teacher Robbie Norris as part of a program that brought yoga to the Richmond City Jail, where Ms. Sankara was incarcerated for shoplifting.
“It was a godsend,” she said in a recent phone interview. “I found it so profoundly transformational. Just the physical practice helped change my
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