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LA TimesLeah Rose Gallegos paced the library at Accelerated Charter Elementary School. This is what her mindfulness class is meant to do, she said: “The goal is to give them as many tools as possible to help themselves.” Gallegos — who founded People’s Yoga with Lauren Quan-Madrid in 2014 in East Los Angeles — was at Accelerated Charter for the first mindfulness class of the 2022-23 school year, a monthly offering for students in transitional kindergarten through sixth grade. “I don’t tell them, ‘It’s going to make you feel good.’ I say, ‘See how you feel,’” Gallegos said. That is not for us.’” A year later, Alas said, “kids are using the strategies in yoga to deal with stuff outside the classroom — any problem, any issue.” Fifth-graders take a mindfulness class. “What’s the definition of yoga?” Gallegos asked the class.
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