The potential benefits of yoga are many: focus, flexibility, strength, healthy circulation and digestion, reduction of anxiety and fatigue, improvement in mood, awareness of body. The breath moves in; the breath moves out.

Last month, in a room off the gym in Southern Regional High School’s 11/12 building, students in the district’s Special Education Extended School Year program followed yoga teacher Colleen Yerves’ cues as she guided them through a series of poses.