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Eric Adams: “We wanted to introduce meditation and breathing exercises…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Inaugural Soul Words Podcast: A Deep Dive with NYC Mayor Eric Adams on Education, Spirituality, and Public Policy

Published | Video Starts at 12:49

Education is on how to eat the right food. We change the food in our school system to start to stop feeding the health care crisis. And education is about not only … We wanted to introduce meditation and breathing exercises [in schools]. … just have them graduate because they can do a geometry, mathematical reading, writing, arithmetic. Exactly. That is not how you survive. You and I both know that it. Takes a. (12:49–12:55)

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Asserts that there is a policy initiative to introduce meditation and breathing exercises in schools.

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