PYP Featured on Guys Talking Yoga Podcast!

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Derek Vanderwarker, Host of Guys Talking Yoga Podcast, has done a three episode feature on Prison Yoga Project! Perfect content for your morning routine. Check out his amazing website feature as well! “That Yoga Class is No Joke” – Prison Yoga to Prisons Worldwide with James Fox The Art of “Effortless Effort” with Bill Brown […]

Prison Yoga Project’s, Nicole Hellthaler, featured on The Redefining Yoga Podcast

Our Assistant Director, Nicole Hellthaler, episode on The Redefining Yoga Podcast is up today! Let’s Go Prison Yoga Project!!!! Share with your community, friends, and family! Join Lara for an enlightening conversation with Nicole Hellthaler, MPS, RYT 200, Assistant Director of Prison Yoga Project. In addition to holding a Master’s in Public Service from the University of […]

Prison Yoga Project featured in Men’s Health Magazine!

“In jail, everything about life is predetermined; everything from meals to showers to calls home. The men have limited choices and no freedom. But during yoga, they’re able to move with agency. They choose to stay or not stay in a pose, they pick if they want their arms on their hips or above their […]

Prison Yoga Project 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Featured in Yoga Journal!

With incredible timing, Yoga Journal featured our trauma-informed yoga teacher training just as we open our registration for our June 2023 Summer Co-hort! You can read about our one of a kind YTT here: https://www.yogajournal.com/teach/social-justice-yoga-teacher-trainings/ You can register for our 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training ‘ Yoga, Social Justice, and Leadership’ here: https://community.prisonyoga.org/courses/yoga-social-justice-and-leadership-a-200-hour-yoga-teacher-training/

PYP Featured on Trauma Research Foundation’s Website

“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. The overlap and intersection of multiple traumasare the most significant driver of criminal behavior and addiction that lead to incarceration.  A history of developmental and other traumas is not exclusive to incarcerated people. […]

Prison Yoga Project Hand Picked By Outside Magazine for Find Your Good Campaign

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 be highlighted as an organization worth financially supporting and to such a vast audience! You can view Prison Yoga Project’s highlight here: https://www.outsideinc.com/find-your-good/prison-yoga-project/ The Find Your Good campaign supports people in finding […]

Trauma Research Foundation recommends ‘Freedom From the Inside’

We are honored to be among such great company! Check out all of the books that Trauma Research Foundation recommends as well as purchase our book, Freedom from the Inside! What should we add to our bookshop? Let us know!

“Freedom from the Inside: a Woman’s Yoga Practice Guide” featured in UK Women’s Prisons newsletter

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An innovative UK non-profit organization called Food Matters — www.FoodMatters.org — has generously offered to help us promote our new women’s book: “FREEDOM FROM THE INSIDE: a woman’s yoga practice guide”. They invited me to write a two-part article to accompany the book request information; it has gone out in their newsletter, “Her Wellbeing”, which […]