Medical Xpress November 15, 2024
Erin McCarthy, The Philadelphia Inquirer

At 7:15 a.m. Nov. 6, just hours after Donald Trump was declared the winner of the presidential election, the mood in a Washington Square West yoga studio felt heavy.

“Folks were sobbing throughout class,” said Callie Kim, founder of Tuck Barre & Yoga. Students expressed a variety of emotions: “Sadness, frustration, overwhelmed, feeling very tired, exhausted, physically and emotionally.”

But all 18 of them—17 regulars and one newcomer—showed up to the sold-out class.

It was the start, Kim said, of a busy week at Tuck’s three locations across Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s most Democratic city and one of few areas in the swing state where a majority of voters rejected the president-elect in his third bid for the White House.

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