Pailey, Robtel Neajai
Washington Informer
02-15-2006
With her body besieged by fibroid tumors after a devastating miscarriage
nearly eight years ago, Angelique Shofar fled her home in Maryland and went
to Massachusetts for a nine-day yoga retreat for women. She conceived her
"yoga baby" immediately after returning. She has since devoted her life to
teaching the ancient practice to people of color through nine-week sessions
that transform participants by increasing flexibility, toning muscles,
oxygenating bodies with deep breathing, and holistically healing common
ailments.
Few people realize that before yoga permeated the subcontinent of India, it
was a spiritual philosophy of Egyptian mystics. ...