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Prison Yoga Project

@prisonyogaproject

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🙏Rehabilitation>punishment
🙌Changing the culture of incarceration through trauma-informed yoga & mindfulness
📍15 Countries, 28 US States
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Look what came in the mail today 🙏🏼💕💫 #prisonyogaproject #onelove❤️
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MAGIC. That’s all. @homeboyindustries @prisonyogaproject @campbell.lillard @true2myself1993 @kmamifrmdabloc
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Oakland 🙌🏾☀️ Check out upcoming training from @prisonyogaproject visit the link in their bio to learn more Prison Yoga Project is a global nonprofit providing trauma-informed yoga and embodied mindfulness programming for people impacted by incarceration. Their work centers dignity, choice, agency, accessibility, nervous-system awareness, and restorative approaches to healing. The Oakland intensive is designed for yoga teachers, facilitators, helping professionals, community leaders, advocates, and others interested in creating more accessible, choice-centered, and healing-centered spaces. #oakland #traumainformed #training #resource
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Our friends at the Prison Yoga Project are offering a trauma informed training with an emphasis on restorative justice ✊🏽 Those who complete the training are eligible to work with the PYP to share yoga with our brothers and sisters in bondage through the prison industrial complex ❤️‍🩹 May all beings be happy, peaceful AND FREE 🦋
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Mass incarceration. What is it? Well, ever since the War on Drugs, the prisons are overcrowded. Slavery may have ended, but the 13th Amendment created a loophole. Watch to learn more! #massincarceration #justicesystem #13thamendment
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It’s best to allow yourself the opportunity to feel what others feel, go through, and then how would that feel when an officer tell you to Buck Up and stop letting him control you, when you call after a protective order is being violated (multiple times) while your abuser is stalking, following, in different vehicles outside of your home? How would you feel? When the law is not coming to your rescue? #healingfromwithin ☮️❤️‍🩹🌈🕊️
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I want to share something special with you about the past 10+ years of my life. 🥹 In addition to all the good stuff (raising a family, teaching what's saved my life, etc) x all the heartbreaking stuff (anthropogenic climate change, genocides & wars, increased authoritarianism & inequities, many other causes for despair) for the past decade I've steadily devoted a portion of my energy, time, and LOVE for the Yoga for All Movement (YFAM). At the heart of it for me? That every single person - no matter where you come from or what you've done - is worthy of a well cared-for heart + nervous system, a second chance, a sense of belonging, and healing that holds the possibility of greater empathy, embodied awareness, and agency - pathways that may have never been accessible or introduced before.🪞 Although the work towards equity, justice and accessibility has not alway been easy - the decision to dedicate my life force to YFAM has been one of the easiest! A bit of my YFAM history: - 14 years ago: organizing folks to help teach pregnant & postpartum mamas in transitional housing (shout out to @maryjayyyyyy, @yoga_with_abbie + many others) - 11 years ago: YFAM visionary @shanielovesayes (who was herself sharing yoga w/ incarcerated folks) approaching me to join forces, asking me to be Executive Director (I declined and offered founding board member instead 😉) - to now, 10 years after @yogaforallmovement was born - we currently teach 26 classes every single dang week ‼️ in Santa Cruz county and have over 30 dedicated trauma-sensitive teachers showing up for the good work. 🥹 YES, we can co-create a life-affirming world for each other. 🫂 This month is our 10-year anniversary. Watching this seedling grow into a nourishing forest has been one of my favorite things in life. 🌳 Last year alone, we served 6,709 students. Come celebrate in communion! SATURDAY ~ Yoga for All Day Yoga in the Streets: Collective Change Starts HERE 12-4:30pm October 10 ~ celebrate 10 years of YFAM with free festival downtown Santa Cruz: live music @djdrez, yoga, kids zone, kirtan, sound healing, prizes and more! {See my ps👇 below} #yfam #justice #equity #lovelife
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Para clarificar: el asterisco. Es cuando decimos “le deseo el bien a todos…”
*menos a esa persona o a ese grupo. En las cárceles, muchas veces el asterisco lo tienen los oficiales. Nos hacemos los de la vista gorda con el staff, que también vive condiciones muy duras: 
• Tienen una tasa de suicidio 40% más alta que la persona promedio.
• Según un estudio, tienen una expectativa de vida de 59 años. El promedio nacional: 75.
• 1 de cada 4 vive con PTSD (estrés postraumático), la misma tasa que soldados que volvieron de Irak y Afganistán. Un sistema más sano necesita gente sana de los dos lados de las rejas. https://shop.prisonyoga.org/collections/training
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Today’s trauma-informed yoga flow and sound bath savasana at Homeboy Industries. Participants stated the intention for flexibility, movement, relaxation, balance, restoration and peace. So proud of how they showed up for their own practice as well as for one another in community. Namasté, @homeboyindustries. 🙏🏼🤎✨ This is one of the many programs at @prisonyogaproject and I’m honored to facilitate and represent for Los Angeles. I am in gratitude for all that continue to make this programming possible.
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We have a new resource at Prison Yoga Project, and I’m so excited that it’s finally out. 🧘 Created by our Training Director, Jen Lindgren, Trauma-Informed Yoga: A Facilitator’s Guide to Sequencing, Cueing, and Adaptive Practice brings together years of experience teaching, adapting practices, and preparing facilitators to offer trauma-informed yoga in correctional and other trauma-impacted settings. I’ve been going through the guide myself, and it’s already changing the way I teach. I’m thinking more intentionally about how I sequence, the language I use, how I offer choices, and how I adapt what I’ve planned based on who is actually in the room that day. One of the things I love about this work is that we’re never done learning. Teaching in youth detention and correctional settings has taught me how important it is to stay curious, responsive, and willing to change course. This guide gives us so many practical tools for doing exactly that. I’m really proud to be part of the PYP team and so grateful to Jen for creating a resource I know I’ll return to again and again. Our new guide is available now at https://shop.prisonyoga.org
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Have you got your tickets?? Are you a Liberated individual (formerly incarcerated)? We got you covered! Do you know someone that you love that has been shuffled into the criminal punishment system? This event and documentary is for them, for US, for Community. Link for tickets and everything else is in @yogabehindbarsorg bio. #traumainformedyoga #ybb #yogabehindbars
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✨ Yoga magic @homeboyindustries yesterday with the best crew in town 💛
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