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In this photo taken on Nov. 23, 2009, Orville Sherman leans back while doing a Hatha Yoga posture during a session at The Enlightened Sentencing Project, an alternative sentencing program that uses meditation and yoga to help rehabilitate offenders on probation and parole at the Centenary United Methodist Church in downtown St. Louis. Mo. Farrokh Anklesaria, a native of Mumbai and a direct student of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was sent around the world by him to bring meditation to convicts. He'd been to Switzerland, Senegal, Kenya, Brazil and Sri Lanka. And by a mixture of circumstances, and perhaps Karma, he landed in Missouri 14 years ago.