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Outdoor practice session on a flat grey granite courtyard with bamboo and trees behind. Several women in saffron-orange and red salwar-style outfits, some with orange dupattas, perform yoga stances; one smiling woman in front wears an orange sari-style outfit with an orange shawl and stands with hands at her sides. Other participants in white, red and dark clothes and a man in white shorts stand around folded mats and a wooden pole. A tall vertical wooden pole stands at right beside a low blue platform, consistent with mallakhamba pole practice.

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