Prison Yoga Project

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

This year, Prison Yoga Project expanded programming in Los Angeles through a new partnership with Homeboy Industries, th...
05/30/2026

This year, Prison Yoga Project expanded programming in Los Angeles through a new partnership with Homeboy Industries, the largest gang rehabilitation and re-entry organization in the world.

Homeboy’s work creates pathways for formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated people to heal from trauma and build futures beyond previous limitations.

By bringing trauma-informed yoga into this space, we’re offering additional tools for self-awareness, resilience, and connection.

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05/27/2026

Meet Alejandro! Our incredible teacher assistant for Prison Yoga Project’s upcoming 200hr YTT. 👋💙🙏 .alex + training manager Jen Lindgren will guide you through live sessions over the course of 20 weeks on how to become a trauma-informed yoga teacher, centering accessibility and advocacy.

These two together are building a community of care you will feel truly held by. While committing to your growth.

Alongside the weekly live discussion and demo portion, training includes self paced curriculum modules. This global training is open to everyone. Find more information and register through our link in bio before, June 11th.

05/26/2026

Healing belongs to everyone ✨💙
Testimonials from inside.

Learn more 🔗 in bio ✨✨Enrollment for The 200-hour Yoga, Social Justice, & Leadership Teacher Training is open.

📸 | California Men’s Colony, Central CA

05/25/2026

Today America celebrates Memorial Day, a remembrance of all who died serving for our country.

At Prison Yoga Project, we are also remembering and honoring all who served and are now incarcerated.

That too is a death of sorts.
The end to a freedom they fought for.

Studies show that in the U.S. veterans are twice as likely to be incarcerated as civilians.

We believe that freedom and healing belongs to everyone.

05/23/2026

Healing belongs to everyone ✨
Testimonials from the Inside ✨

Learn more 🔗 in bio

📸 | California Men’s Colony, Central CA

05/22/2026

Congratulations to the 50 new graduates from Prison Yoga Project’s 10th cohort of 200HR Trauma-Informed, Yoga Teacher Training.

We can’t wait to see the impact you’re about to make. Let’s give them a round of applause!
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If you feel called to do this work, registration is open for our next 200HR cohort beginning June11th. Link in bio for more info.

It is in the consistency of practice and showing up that something transformative builds. For both participants and faci...
05/21/2026

It is in the consistency of practice and showing up that something transformative builds. For both participants and facilitators of our programs, practicing yoga in a carceral facility forever changes the relationship to one’s self and the world around them. Trust is experienced in a new way. In a place you may think you couldn’t let your guard down, it happens and it is there we bear witness to the most raw surrender. An open pathway for true transformation and lasting rehabilitation.

Photo taken by PYP facilitator in Dallas, Texas, U.S., -May 6, 2026
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In spaces like this, even a single act of balance becomes profound.📸 inside a maximum-security federal prison in Guanaj...
05/19/2026

In spaces like this, even a single act of balance becomes profound.

📸 inside a maximum-security federal prison in Guanajuato, Mexico.
with Prison Yoga Project Mexico

Learn more about Prison Yoga Project ~ 🔗 in our bio.
Thank you for being here with us.

En espacios así, incluso un solo acto de equilibrio se vuelve profundo. Fotografiado dentro de una prisión de máxima seguridad en Guanajuato, México.

Rehabilitation Over Punishment ➡️ Human Being number 3025 and his partner after yoga class. In this particular maximum s...
05/16/2026

Rehabilitation Over Punishment ➡️ Human Being number 3025 and his partner after yoga class. In this particular maximum security prison outside of Mexico City, there are yoga classes in which family members can come and practice with them. Swipe through for more.

Maximum Security Prison — Mexico City District in collaboration with our program in Mexico,
Prison Yoga Project Mexico


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San Quentin, CA
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