内容摘要：A vendor selects a potato from the oven to prepare the popular Turkish stuffed baked potato dish known as “Kumpir” at Awaterfront square in Ortakoy, Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

A vendor selects a potato from the oven to prepare the popular Turkish stuffed baked potato dish known as “Kumpir” at Awaterfront square in Ortakoy, Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Like McLemore, LeAnne Tolley’s yoga practice began with an injury that left her unable to do her typical gym workouts. Tolley, a Latter-day Saint and a yoga teacher, uses yoga therapy to help her clients with eating disorders and other behavioral issues.Tolley said when she started practicing yoga, she met with resistance from some Christians outside her faith, even though she saw no conflict. She said yoga changed her life by helping her overcome “exercise addiction” and understand that the mind and body are connected.

“Most Western spirituality sometimes places excessive focus on the spirit and leads people to believe that the body doesn’t matter,” she said. “My faith teaches that God has a physical body — an exalted, celestial, perfected body. What it means to become like God is to get to a point where my body is just as important as my spirit, that they are all perfectly aligned.”It’s dismaying, she says, for her to hear some people tell her she cannot do yoga and be a Latter-day Saint.“What I’ve learned from yoga only fortifies, enhances and deepens my personal faith,” she said. “The pieces in yoga that don’t fit in with my faith practice, I just leave them out. I just take those pieces that help me and make sense for me.”

While many Latter-day Saints have adopted yoga for health and fitness, the church took the intentional step of recommending yoga as a way for its missionaries to stay physically fit, said Matthew Bowman, chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University.He said some church members, particularly women, have talked about how yoga helped them get in touch with their own divine identity and their identity as women. It has also helped some unpack a contradiction within the church’s theology, where there is sometimes shaming around the body while also insisting that bodies are divine, Bowman said.

For Naomi Watkins, who says she left the Latter-day Saints after experiencing a disconnect between her body and mind about eight years ago, yoga offered a spiritual lifeline.

“Being a woman in Mormonism, I felt very cut off from my body because of the garments I had to wear and having seen how women were treated differently,” she said, adding that breathing exercises, or breath work, in yoga helped her make that vital body-mind connection and quiet the constant inner chatter.as a presidential candidate: 30,000 people at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama, in August 2015.

Wahl, who owns a butterfly farm outside Huntsville, said perhaps the best way to understand Trump and Alabama and this moment of uncertainty is to see a president who, at least to his supporters in the state, has earned the benefit of the doubt.“He’s going to let everybody know he’s serious,” the chairman said. Trump is “going to bring people to the bargaining table. We’re actually going to see the negotiator conduct business.”

NEW YORK (AP) — A jury on Thursday convicted a woman who sneaked onto a flight from New York to Paris without a boarding pass by slipping past security and airline gate agents at John F. Kennedy International Airport last year.concluded with a guilty finding on a stowaway charge by jurors in federal court in Brooklyn. Jury selection and opening statements were both held on Tuesday, and Dali took the stand on Wednesday.