Serving Those Who Served: Veterans Yoga Project Offers Path to Relaxation, Resilience

Serving Those Who Served: Veterans Yoga Project Offers Path to Relaxation, Resilience Virginia S. Gilstrap | Kerrville Daily Times | August 6, 2026Unlike other yoga classes, this one starts with the Pledge of Allegiance and three enthusiastic “Oorahs!”The Veterans Yoga Project has been offered in Kerrville by yoga therapist Rick Trzcinski since 2017 to help area veterans release stress and improve their quality of life.In 2007, Trzcinski himself was walking with a cane due to neurological…

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From Survival to Strength: Stories of Resilience as Veterans Heal, Find Hope through Veterans Yoga Project

From Survival to Strength: Stories of Resilience as Veterans Heal, Find Hope through Veterans Yoga Project Former service members to reflect on how group changed their lives during nonprofit’s 15th anniversary celebration May 27, 2026 | Alameda, California“Honestly, I think I would have already taken my life.” That was the first thing Ceasar Barajas, 50, said when asked where his mental health would be without yoga. The former Navy hospital corpsman started the practice while in college.…

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Our Why: A Veteran’s Story

Our Why: A Veteran's Story "Yoga is for women. It is not something I ever really put any thought into. It is for the soccer moms to get together once a week and “work out”. Not something for a Marine. Not anything I needed. The problem is that kind of thinking shows just how narrow-minded I had become. A year ago my life fell apart. I had been out of the Corps for several decades and…

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