Yoga U: Is the Contemplative Sciences Center the answer to UVA’s ‘reputation gap,’ or an expensive New Age sideshow?


John Campbell, director of the UVA Center for Contemplative Sciences, says the idea for the program emerged when he and Sonia Jones were having a conversation about her daughter’s Ashtanga yoga class at Stanford University. Photo: Dan Addison/UVA Public Affairs

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