“Loaded like donkeys with our new yoga mats — still in the plastic wrap — we hiked up the hill…”
To read my latest story “Refugee Yoga in Beirut,” posted on NPR’s blog for the inspiring program “On Being,” please go here.

Photo taken by one of the refugee yoginis of another yogini in the yoga class co-taught by Emily O'Dell in Beirut
“Though every yoga class ends in shavasana, it’s unsettling to lie in corpse pose in a refugee camp, with a war next door…”