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PAWTUCKET – Adaptive yoga instructor Robin Sousa begins her class by having her 16 participants shake their arms, first by their sides and then over their heads.
“Shake it up low!” she says. “Shake it up high!”
Smiles spread across many faces.
“This is good for your nervous system, right?” Sousa says. “And then stand really nice and tall behind your chair.”
The men and women, many of whom live with disabilities, follow her instructions, positioning themselves behind chairs arranged in a circle in the bright brick-walled classroom.