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Local yoga teacher brings technique to Uganda
Instructor joins mission trip
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Emilie Cook, owner of Find Your Center yoga studio, poses in a variation of extended side angle for a portrait in her yoga studio in Gainesville. Cook taught several gentle therapeutic yoga and mindfulness techniques to women who work in refugee camps in Uganda. - photo by David Barnes
The farthest Emilie Cook had ventured from Gainesville had been the border states of Georgia and excursions to Louisiana and New York. Flying to Uganda in East Africa, with a stopover in Amsterdam, was beyond the dreams of the proprietor and instructor at the Find Your Center Yoga studio in the Main Street Market. Yet, Cook posted on Facebook this week a photo of a yoga pose from Murchison State Park in Uganda.