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Yoga stirs tempers
04/08/2005 10:21 - (SA)
Norway - A Norwegian prison has stopped giving yoga sessions to inmates after finding that some of the prisoners became more aggressive and agitated, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The yoga classes were introduced on a trial basis earlier this year at Ringerike prison, which holds some of Norway's most dangerous criminals.
Prison officials had hoped mediation and breathing exercises would help inmates contain their anger, but it appeared to have the opposite effect.
Some inmates became more agitated and aggressive, while others developed sleeping problems as a result of the yoga sessions, prison warden Sigbjoern Hagen told newspaper Ringerikes Blad.
Hagen said that deep breathing exercises could make the inmates more dangerous, by unblocking their psychological barriers.
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