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How Yoga Can Help You Keep Your Balance During Divorce

How Yoga Can Help You Keep Your Balance During Divorce by Kate Kohm. Photograph of a woman in a yoga pose by Mark Zamora
Photograph by Mark Zamora

Yoga is an excellent mind/body practice; doing a couple of poses each day can help you decrease stress and keep your emotional balance during divorce

Divorce statistics are devastating. According to Wilkinson & Finkbeiner, every 13 seconds there’s a divorce in the U.S. This results in 277 divorces an hour and almost 7 thousand divorces a day. Double that, and you’ll get the number of people feeling stress or even depression caused by divorce every day.

Everyone chooses a different way to go to alleviate stress during this overwhelming time. Some people opt

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