John Thurman

I tried to get to some of my colleagues that I knew were in the room, we were at that point of having to crawl on the floor and because it was now full of smoke, very hot air. You took your face off the floor and you couldn't breathe.

I was really fortunate in the fact that the outside of my body -- I wasn't cut, I wasn't burned, a lot of the jet fuel splashed up into our area, and burned some people fairly significantly. However, being exposed basically to kerosene...I had severe smoke inhalation.

I would take the Metro down and we would stop at the Pentagon station, there'd just be this feeling of dread even pulling through the station. The first time I was back in the building, I could still smell that kerosene smell, which was unnerving.

I had doubts, but I was willing to try anything, taking drugs to sleep, taking drugs to ... just everything -- it felt like a wet blanket. And so I was willing to try anything. And pretty fast, within a few weeks, was feeling some of the benefits.

For me, as a teacher, what is it that you want to do with your yoga? For me it was twofold: one was to bring yoga to men, it's a good workout. You get your cardiovascular on, you're building strength, but you're building flexibility and length in your muscles. The other (reason) was to specifically bring it to service members and veterans.

I thought it was a bomb.

They come every Thursday at noon.