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...burgeoning field is called yoga therapy, and its practitioners include psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers who incorporate yoga poses and meditative breathing into their sessions, as well as yoga teachers who want to learn how to address the emotions that bubble up in students during class or in private sessions. The idea, say yoga therapists, is to allow yoga to empower people while priming them to access their deepest emotions...
...That sense of peace is what Joan Stenzler, a licensed clinical social worker and a yoga teacher in Fresh Meadows, N.Y., tries to create in her sessions. In addition to using physical yoga poses, Stenzler teaches her clients about the five koshas, or layers of consciousness, in yoga: physical, energetic, mental-emotional, wisdom and bliss. "Each kosha represents one aspect of our existence or consciousness and can potentially be open and accessible to the individual, or blocked," says Stenzler, who helps patients identify and free themselves from their areas of blockage...
...already set a model for how this critical discourse can occur. In 2007, students organized a series of panels entitled “Finding Animals” and “Animal Crossings,” in which legal scholars, philosophers, literary theorists, theologians, and artists discussed the social and moral status of animals. Over 300 members of the Harvard community attended, with biologists challenging panel members on animal experimentation and political scientists disputing the ramifications of granting legal protections to animals...
Lewis E. Bollard ’09 is a social studies concentrator in Kirkland House. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays. CORRECTION: The April 15 column “Animal Studies at Harvard” falsely identified Etienne Benson as a graduate student, when in fact he is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Environment and the Department of the History of Science. The Crimson regrets the error...
...Taught/Tutor: Social Analysis 10, Economics 970ar (a sophomore tutorial on the economics of crime), Freshmen Seminar 43y (a freshmen seminar with Alan Dershowitz on the origins of morality), Kirkland House Tutor