Prison Yoga Project Community | David | Activity https://community.prisonyoga.org/members/breathingstillnessgmail-com/activity/ Activity feed for David. Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:49:14 -0700 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.21.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 98ef36cca80cd3f86805ed960ce9cdcc David replied to the topic "Lesson 1, Chapters 1-3" - https://community.prisonyoga.org/activity/p/1274/ Thu, 25 Mar 2021 18:44:44 -0700 @wambuinjugunagmail-com I know the Canton NY area pretty well and spent a lot of time in the “north country” as we called it while growing up. 

]]> 5989ee883369b9d18124c022d5b6d3ba David replied to the topic "Lesson 3, Chapters 23-24" - https://community.prisonyoga.org/activity/p/1220/ Tue, 16 Mar 2021 14:33:04 -0700 What comes next? This seems to be the question for me. Prior to Covid an organization I helped start here in Alaska had seven regular service classes being offered at different institutions and a yoga teacher training program at the…   Read more»

]]> 9afcf8fd4e8e52af5186effc60a8d451 David replied to the topic "Lesson 1, Chapters 1-3" - https://community.prisonyoga.org/activity/p/1209/ Mon, 15 Mar 2021 19:59:21 -0700 @wambuinjugunagmail-com thanks for the thoughtful words. Upstate is a hard culture, lots of despair there. There are islands of culture in college towns and university centers but when scratching past the surface it’s a tough environment. I was happy to…   Read more»

]]> e86938ec3642e2d325308614393cba96 David replied to the topic "Lesson 1, Chapter 18-22" - https://community.prisonyoga.org/activity/p/1208/ Mon, 15 Mar 2021 19:49:10 -0700 How to take care of myself? Well, isn’t that the million dollar question? After years of being a social conscious yoga instructor and before that a school teacher learning to apply the same principles to my own life that I…   Read more»

]]> fe192845a6b0afc4bf8a1295c58c6172 David replied to the topic "Lesson 3, Chapters 13-17" - https://community.prisonyoga.org/activity/p/1206/ Mon, 15 Mar 2021 19:00:11 -0700 I just love rubbing the stomach and humming with exhales. It is soothing and so simple. Already I started sharing this with my students both in the studio/gym setting as well as the service classes still being offered. It helps…   Read more»

]]> cd33e758e3a2a85f4dd51e386fe393a1 David replied to the topic "Lesson 1, Chapters 1-3" - https://community.prisonyoga.org/activity/p/1126/ Thu, 04 Mar 2021 16:51:33 -0800 @nicole it is sad and very weird how much of the upstate NY is connected to the prison industry. My grandfather too was a high ranking CO and although quite kind to me was very cruel to his own children….   Read more»

]]> 58a11417ca2968d3b9fc199e2f03953c David replied to the topic "Lesson 2, Chapters 4-7" - https://community.prisonyoga.org/activity/p/1125/ Thu, 04 Mar 2021 16:45:47 -0800 @nicole yes I experienced that too, when I would try to do something light or just a different sort of thing  afterwards my experience from inside was with me for a while. Actually I had to work on really letting…   Read more»

]]> 5cc5b868d50388df958b98834aa35742 David replied to the topic "Lesson 2, Chapter 12" - https://community.prisonyoga.org/activity/p/1118/ Thu, 04 Mar 2021 13:19:41 -0800 This was an interesting little exercises. What came to mind is how simple they are. Both of them offer nice little tools when things start to inwardly escalate.  The second one seemed to feel more natural for me. It has…   Read more»

]]> 411ef7bdca55aad4b1705c4c3a238371 David replied to the topic "Lesson 1, Chapters 1-3" - https://community.prisonyoga.org/activity/p/1117/ Thu, 04 Mar 2021 13:07:58 -0800 @nicole yes the prison industry is a weird thing. I knew both family and non members who worked in the prisons. Very depleting work. Funny that in the last video session Bill mentioned COs pension plans. It’s true so many…   Read more»

]]> 533577ed2a4ce3d13bfa6f174a0645e6 David replied to the topic "Lesson 2, Chapters 4-7" - https://community.prisonyoga.org/activity/p/1116/ Thu, 04 Mar 2021 13:04:15 -0800 @nicole for me it’s really about the breath and my intention before stepping into the facility. Back when the prisons were open it was a two and half hour drive to the max prison for teacher prison over the mountain…   Read more»

]]> 93152c5a9a8442ae5b3447f7b02fd64c David liked forum post "Lesson 3, Chapter 8-9" - https://community.prisonyoga.org/activity/p/1115/ Thu, 04 Mar 2021 12:58:51 -0800 49174b4a33714260b50d6a8cfd906b2d David replied to the topic "Lesson 1, Chapters 10-11" - https://community.prisonyoga.org/activity/p/1005/ Mon, 22 Feb 2021 22:11:32 -0800 pg. 141 Thanks for the chance to go through these. I like how visceral they are in my body. It seems that folks could use all of these depending on where they were or what they were doing at the…   Read more»

]]> 00dc373c6d2591a166e75adffb81315b David posted a new activity comment https://community.prisonyoga.org/activity/p/901/#acomment-926 Mon, 01 Feb 2021 18:18:18 -0800 Thanks Jen  for the comment and reply. It’s AK just for the record not AZ. Haha   Yes we found the guys interested in the history of yoga just in the sense of wanting to know that it was more than as one guy put “something for rich white folks.” Talking about the larger story of Yoga helped him but we stayed away from the pop history of Yoga… Read more

In reply to - David posted an update in the group YTT for Incarcerated People

Thanks for creating a group on this topic. Before the Covid-19 pandemic shut everything down we were offering a YTT program to men incarcerated […]

]]> a1bc36966b414af4632dfff00bfc4664 David replied to the topic "Lesson 3, Chapter 8-9" - https://community.prisonyoga.org/activity/p/922/ Sun, 31 Jan 2021 22:02:20 -0800 Also, the article was very helpful. Growing up in upstate NY where the prison system is a huge employer I have family members and people I knew personally involved in the life of COs. It made me think too of…   Read more»

]]> 4abab43fc4520800d00c3c68fb74c8fd David replied to the topic "Lesson 3, Chapter 8-9" - https://community.prisonyoga.org/activity/p/921/ Sun, 31 Jan 2021 21:58:35 -0800 As I reflected I began to realize I have never really seen a black person arrested in real life, but I have observed numerous incidents where native Alaskans have been arrested. Also, I have observed numerous arrests of white folks….   Read more»

]]> 178f58efa1b5b26b72fce31120e31167 David replied to the topic "Lesson 2, Chapters 4-7" - https://community.prisonyoga.org/activity/p/920/ Sun, 31 Jan 2021 21:48:59 -0800 1. Interesting experience. As I practiced this exercise I felt very constricted in my upper body and found my breathe shallow. Lots of heaviness in my body and mind. The process of identifying a micro-aggression was in itself a curious…   Read more»

]]> 9bc4aa25757c019a3bdfebb39a1ccd73 David replied to the topic "Lesson 1, Chapters 1-3" - https://community.prisonyoga.org/activity/p/903/ Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:53:53 -0800 1. I grew up in a small upstate NY town. If you know anything about upstate please know some things. First it’s poor. Many of the towns out in the hills are just one step above Appalachia. Poverty brings with…   Read more»

]]> 52bcf1efec7dd36d46e085b775fb96b0 David posted an update in the group YTT for Incarcerated People: Thanks for creating a group on this topic. Before […] https://community.prisonyoga.org/activity/p/901/ Tue, 19 Jan 2021 16:45:49 -0800 Thanks for creating a group on this topic. Before the Covid-19 pandemic shut everything down we were offering a YTT program to men incarcerated at Spring Creek Correctional Center in Seward AK. The most challenging thing in the beginning was to understand what the men personally needed and were asking for rather than what we thought we…

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