Prison Yoga Project

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Prison Yoga Project When people feel safe and connected, they thrive. When people thrive, society flourishes. We believe in restorative justice.

Prison Yoga Project provides a cost-effective method of improving prisoner health and behavior. We believe in addressing the damage done and providing tools for self rehabilitation. We’ve helped hundreds of prisoners by instilling self-control and fostering accountability. While they’re ‘doing the time,’ we focus on violence prevention, impulse control, mood disorders, depression, despair, addiction and PTSD.

10/21/2026

The impact of trauma-informed yoga extends far beyond the training room. 🧡

Meet Liana, who joined us in New York for our return to in-person trainings!

Just a month later and she’s already brought trauma-informed yoga into various community spaces and has received approval to launch a yoga therapy group at her local clinic. 💙🫂We are so excited to witness her healing work emerge. 👏

When we invest in facilitators, we invest in the communities they serve. The impact continues long after training ends.

This transformative intensive is headed to the community of Longmont, Colorado.
⛰️This weekend! October 23–25

Join us to deepen your practice, build community, and expand your capacity to serve. We cannot wait to meet you there.

🔗 Registration details at the link in our bio
📚 Need-based assistance is available

The Prison Yoga Project effect 🙏🙌💙Here’s what facilitators from our most recent Trauma-Informed Training in Brooklyn, Ne...
10/20/2026

The Prison Yoga Project effect 🙏🙌💙

Here’s what facilitators from our most recent Trauma-Informed Training in Brooklyn, New York, have to say about their experience with us.

We create space for you to transform your yoga practice, build meaningful community connections, and deepen your service to the people you support.

Time is quickly approaching to register for our final two trainings of 2026:

🏔️ Longmont, Colorado
Oct. 23–25

🌉 Oakland, California
Nov. 13–15

https://shop.prisonyoga.org/collections/training🔗

📸: Lo Patt

10/19/2026

In a weekend intensive full of trauma-informed dialogue, practicum, and embodied perspectives… here’s what stood out to Liana.

Show up authentically as yourself.

Understand your capacity as a facilitator and the capacity of those you serve.

There are two opportunities left in 2026 to join our live trainings:
🏔️ Longmont, Colorado | Oct 23–25
🌉 Oakland, California | Nov 13–15

Can’t join us in person? Our foundational training is always available online for those ready to begin this work.

10/18/2026

“Nothing but fun and nothing but growth.”

After a lifetime of describing himself as combative, a Prison Yoga Project participant reflects on discovering something different through yoga: the ability to calm himself, be present, and feel comfortable in his own skin.

📍 Mule Creek State Prison, California

Photographs | reel Robert Sturman

As I move with my camera through rooms within prisons where human beings are practicing yoga, what moves me most is the ...
10/17/2026

As I move with my camera through rooms within prisons where human beings are practicing yoga, what moves me most is the depth of effort and sincerity I witness in these sacred spaces.

Here are two moments from his practice.

📍 Mule Creek State Prison, California

Photographs by Robert Sturman

10/17/2026

Yoga is for everyone. As trauma-informed facilitators, it is our responsibility to ensure that sentiment beyond words, into a felt sensation for our participants.
We make space for everyone in this practice, including those who felt excluded by limiting societal narratives.

There are two opportunities left in 2026 to join our live trainings:
🏔️ Longmont, Colorado | Oct 23–25
🌉 Oakland, California | Nov 13–15

Can’t join us in person? Our foundational training is always available online for those ready to begin this work.
We hope to welcome you soon.

PUNITIVE JUSTICE CAUSES MORE HARM THAN IT PREVENTS. > punishment Photo by: Robert Sturman
10/16/2026

PUNITIVE JUSTICE CAUSES MORE HARM THAN IT PREVENTS.

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Photo by: Robert Sturman

10/15/2026

This work is not always easy, but you never have to do it alone. In this community, we build support systems for those wanting to change the system and those caught inside of it.

One thing that makes our trainings so special are the amazing people that come together in that space.
Inside you will be united with dedicated healing practitioners, social justice workers, and community that is aligned in one major mission: Healing belongs to everyone.

Prison Yoga Project would be honored to support you, wherever you are in your facilitation journey. If our training interests you please visit the link in our bio to learn more.

Two stops left for our live trauma-informed facilitation intensives:
🏔️ Longmont, Colorado | Oct 23–25
🌉 Oakland, California | Nov 13–15

Can’t join us in person? Our foundational training is always available online for those ready to begin this work.

Last two chances to train with Prison Yoga Project live in 2026! Longmont, Colorado | October 23–25Oakland, California |...
10/14/2026

Last two chances to train with Prison Yoga Project live in 2026!

Longmont, Colorado | October 23–25
Oakland, California | November 13–15

Together we will explore what trauma-informed facilitation looks like in practice. We’ll center agency, nervous system awareness, embodied mindfulness and accessible movement at the intersections of social justice advocacy.

“It is one thing to say, ‘I am trauma-informed,’ and another thing entirely to experience and practice what that truly looks like.”

Come learn, practice, and build community.

🔗Register today through the link in our bio
🧡 Scholarships available

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📸: Lo Patt

10/14/2026

Inside Pendleton State Prison, there are five newly emerging yoga teachers. 👏

Read the ways they are giving back in our latest impact moment. 🔗Link in bio

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