Yoga, meditation classes taught in Spanish offer healing to stressed communities

Yoga, meditation classes taught in Spanish offer healing to stressed communities

(RNS) — At the New York City yoga studios she frequented in the 2010s, Rosana Rodriguez sometimes found herself the only Latina in the room. “I felt really intimidated,” said the 58-year-old native New Yorker. Predominantly white studios and expensive monthly fees gave her and others in her community the impression that wellness spaces “weren’t for them.” But the practice of yoga itself, Rodriguez said, saved her life. It was a consistent stress…