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Here’s the setting: The cavernous Virtue Field House at Middlebury College, 10 a.m. on a quiet Sunday morning early in the fall, the football season. Some 40 to 50 young men, all dressed similarly, shorts and t-shirts with “Middlebury Football” lettering, are arranged in front of a solitary figure who is leading these men, 300-pound linemen as well as 180-pound backs and receivers, through a series of yoga poses and mind-body exercises.

The East Middlebury resident, who is better known for his three decades of teaching yoga in our area, began powerlifting competitively in 2020.

When most folks in Addison County hear the name Prem Prakash, they think yoga. The East Middlebury resident has been teaching yoga and meditation in our area for more than 30 years.