UpRising Yoga

UpRising Yoga Our mission is to bring trauma informed yoga to those incarcerated and underserved communities.

UpRising Yoga offers Trauma-Informed Yoga Trainings and Yoga Life Skills classes in various settings, including Juvenile Hall, Group Homes, Residential Programs, Mental Health Agencies, and Community Centers. Our program consists of yoga postures, breathing techniques, mindfulness and present moment awareness, didactic discussion, experiential exercises, and coping and life skills that facilitates

healing, fosters growth and greater self-awareness, and empowers participants towards independence and leadership. Our mission is to create an empowering program to heal resilient youth & communities, for a safe place to confidently conquer challenges.

Celebrating Freedom ❤️
06/19/2026

Celebrating Freedom
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Anti-racism education is needed more than ever when ignorance is loud and featured.
06/16/2026

Anti-racism education is needed more than ever when ignorance is loud and featured.

Looking back, every part of the struggle shaped the work I do. It gave me empathy, grit, lots of humor, and a deep under...
06/10/2026

Looking back, every part of the struggle shaped the work I do. It gave me empathy, grit, lots of humor, and a deep understanding of what transformation can look like, continually unfolding, more and more with faith.

Building a mission statement is powerful- know why you are driven for your cause. Have faith, trust God, trust your gut, and let your passion lead you to your people. Go where the love is. Mentors are everything — seek them, listen to them, let them change you. Partnership and cooperation will take you further than anything you could build alone. Say less, listen more, and double your self-care. Compassion for others starts with compassion for yourself- being a mess to find your message – it’s ok to remain a work in progress. Gratitude for all the blessings and miracles create more. And when I am puzzled and spiraling, know that I have “smart feet” to lead me back toward a spiritual solution.

https://voyagela.com/interview/conversations-with-jill-ippolito/

Today we'd like to introduce you to Jill Ippolito. Hi Jill, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?I started my work after surviving institutionalized settings that were never designed to heal people. As a teenager, I was incarcera

Welcome Lucero Maya to our UpRising Yoga team! Incredible yoga life skill classes today at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall.Ex...
06/07/2026

Welcome Lucero Maya to our UpRising Yoga team! Incredible yoga life skill classes today at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall.

Excited to share our aligned mission and journey. No doubt she brings much hearfelt expertise to her students. And a dazzling side crow to boot!

06/02/2026
Two successful  trauma informed yoga life skill classes with URY Board Member  & URY Instructor  &  today.Why? Bc: Team ...
05/03/2026

Two successful trauma informed yoga life skill classes with URY Board Member & URY Instructor & today.
Why? Bc: Team Work.

URY Skill Focused Instructor and Supportive Co-Teachers make an enormous difference than me teaching alone. I’m grateful to connect with the kids and offer important tools for self regulation with yoga, coaching and mindfulness.

Thank you for all the support- and having Kat as our Program Director helped us take this to the next level. Looking forward to our new onboarding instructors starting soon!

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04/06/2026

Young people are drawn into the juvenile justice system for behavior such as truancy and running away, known as juvenile status offenses. Learn more.

04/06/2026

Physiotherapist and nervous system educator Jessica Maguire explains why “feel your feelings” doesn’t work for many people. Learn how interoception, trauma, and neurodivergence shape nervous system regulation—and what helps instead.,

04/06/2026

Leading up to our fall Accessible Yoga Training Online, is offering a series of FREE educational sessions that lead into the 55-hour training.

Practice: Friday, August 14
Storytime! A Narrative-Driven Chair Yoga Practice
〜 In this 60-minute chair yoga class, Jivana offers an example of how to sequence a class based on a narrative as a way to engage students and have fun.

Workshop: Tuesday, September 8
Designing Creative Sequences for Accessible Yoga
〜 Dive into the foundations of designing creative Accessible Yoga sequences, learn sample frameworks for integrated mat and chair classes, and more!

Sign up once to access both sessions and the recordings! Link in the first comment.

[Light yellow and olive green event flyer with a narrow turquoise, orange, and brown wave. There is also a photo of Jivana practicing ankle-to-knee posture in a chair.]

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