Twenty or so high school boys lay flat on their backs under fluorescent lights at Atkins High School.

The auxiliary gym lacks the usual adornments of a yoga studio. No mats. No blankets. No candles.

But these rambunctious football players have turned relaxed and still as they visualize their favorite color coursing through their bodies.

Yoga instructor, Heidi Leigh, guided the meditation.

"Let the color move through the base of your feet, filling up your heels, your toes," she said. "Saturate your ankles with your favorite color."

For the Atkins football team, practice involves more than blocking, tackling and other high-impact drills.

Coach Johmar Barringer also wants players to work on downward dog, bridge pose, tree pose, and other yogic movements to improve their flexibility, bal

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