“The vast majority of incarcerated people have suffered significant developmental trauma. This trauma includes abuse, neglect, poverty, hunger, homelessness, incarceration of a parent, and discrimination in various forms.…
It was 100 degrees when I pulled into Folsom. When I opened my car door, the heat nearly knocked me over. The constant whomp-whomp of…
” The continued lack of mental, emotional, and social health programming for women in prison during the COVID-19 pandemic may actually cause the virus’s most…
PYP was selected to be a partner in Outside Magazine’s Find Your Good program! Outsideinc.com receives over 3.5 million unique visitors a month; we are honored to…
Prison Yoga Project is happy to support the launch of Mend Collaborative, a restorative justice organization providing healing, reconciliation, and dialogue opportunities for survivors and…
In this article we see new and successful ways of working with incarcerated populations rooted in dignity. There is still more to be understood with…
Our Program Director and Training Coordinator for Europe, Josefin Wikström, led over two dozen qualified yoga teachers through training and preparation to facilitate a pilot…
The following facts come from the article, “Online only: Report finds most U.S. inmates suffer from substance abuse or addiction” which references a report from…
This article shines light on the school to prison pipeline and one of the factors adding to the struggles of youth; illiteracy. Read the whole…
Listen as Accessible Yoga Founder, Jivana interviews our Executive Director Bill Brown. You can find the full episode and transcript here: https://conference.accessibleyoga.org/podcasts/accessible-yoga-podcast/episodes/2147632112 In this episode,…
