Local firefighters are getting some help fighting PTSD and the stress the face on the job through yoga.
The Albuquerque Bernalillo County Firefighters Union is hosting "Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction" classes featuring practices like yoga and mediation tailored specifically for firefighters.
Organizers say it helps firefighters deal with the though things they see.
"We are exposed to gruesome traumas, we're exposed to all kinds of stressors, we have normal stresses in life and as we get older," Lt. Miguel Tittmann, from the Albuquerque Fire Department. "We just never had the tools to deal with some of these stresses."
The union is working on getting grant money to fund the program in the hopes of expanding the classes statewide.
Right now they are run by a volunteer.