Yoga Provides Calm Moments of Well-Being in Busy World by James Black Editor’s note: This is the first in a quarterly MSConnection series profiling wellness and exercise classes offered by the National MS Society: Lone Star. Always talk to your doctor before starting a new exercise program.
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here is a weekly oasis of relaxation and calm in the nation’s fourth largest city. A few blocks from the hard-knocks playing field of the Houston Texans, a decidedly noncompetitive environment is in place at the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Southeast Texas office. The busyness of business in the Bayou City seems worlds away as men and women living with MS focus on wellness of
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their minds, bodies and spirits every Thursday evening. With words of encouragement and gentle humor, yoga instructor Maria Theresia Mazzarella leads a dozen students living with MS through a series of stretching movements. Many students stand during the exercises; others sit. They are men and women of all abilities in motion against a disease that often