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Yoga in a basement helps people in a Ukrainian front-line city cope with Russia's constant shelling
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Serhii Zaloznyi, center, a 52-year-old yoga instructor, holds a yoga session in a basement in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. In a basement in one of the front-line cities in the Donetsk region, people gather three times a week in the morning for yoga to alleviate the stress caused by Russia’s constant shelling. - photo by AP Photo/Hanna Arhirova
KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) — In a basement in one of the front-line cities in Ukraine's Donetsk region, people gather three times a week in the morning for yoga to alleviate the stress caused by the constant shelling from Russian artillery. Soothing music fills the basement in Kramatorsk, where the humid air is tangible. “We let go of the external world,” Serhii Zaloznyi, a 52-year-old yoga instructor, said in a serene tone.