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Fundraiser uses yoga to improve communities

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A world wide fundraiser is using yoga to help improve communities. The Yoga Aid World Challenge benefits charities that embrace and support the practices of yoga.

A two hour Yoga class was held Saturday morning at the Albany Area YMCA.

Participants gave donations to support Yoga Gangsters, an organization that aids at-risk kids through yoga philosophies and techniques.

"I just like the idea of helping at risk kids, I think they need an outlet, I think they need something to do that is relaxing and they can do it anywhere and it doesn't cost anything," says Donnette Louis, Senior Fitness Instructor at the Albany Area YMCA.

16 people came to participate in the two hour long class. If you are interested in taking a yoga class, click here http://www.albanyareaymca.org/wellness_albany_fitness_classes.php

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