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From BlackVoices

After one of the most epic snubs in Grammy Award history and a less-than-legendary release of her album ”Testimony” in the summer of 2006, singer India Arie says she was compelled to look inward for acceptance.

“I had to leave the road and get myself together,” Arie told Yoga Journal magazine in an interview for their September 2012 music issue.

According to the magazine’s contributing writers Neal Pollack and Mary Bolster:

When she returned home to Atlanta after touring, the first thing she did was kneel down and press through the balls of her feet. “It was profound how good it felt,” she says. “I just started balling my eyes out.”

Arie went on to explain how she has traveled with a yoga mat everyday since, practicing daily, changing her diet and fine tuning both herself and her music in the process.

Read more about how yoga helped India through her creative process on BlackVoices.com.

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