Meaningful Movement: Using yoga to counter racism and encourage self-love.
At the end of the yoga class, when everyone is relaxed yet invigorated by the hour’s practice, instructor Felicia Savage Friedman introduces a final exercise. She asks the students to form a circle, with each person standing beside a classmate with a skin color different from their own. After instructing them to place their hands on their hearts and look each other in the eyes, she leads the group in a mantra: “When I am in that place of love, truth, light, and peace in me, and you are in that place in you, we are one."