How Yoga Can Help In California's Overcrowded Prisons | TIME

In San Quentin, a yoga program helps inmates cope with anger and violence issues that are endemic in California's overcrowded prisons

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How Yoga Can Help In California's Overcrowded Prisons | TIME

[hm]

This is incredibly inspiring - the teacher’s perseverance & his mission, & the students’ humility & willingness to learn.

[TogetherAgainBeads]

This is awesome! Shouldn't ever jail and prison have yoga? For everyone, including the staff and guards. Why not add EFT, Hypnosis, Meditation, NLP, Reiki, and other modalities?
I would LOVE to work with prisoners in this way.

[reygnavio]

I would love to hear a story after this outside prisons....
Is it positive ?

[manindersingh]

It's work u love it ur mind u need to tune..

[pauljung]

"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone."  ~ Audrey Hepburn

"True power is living the realization that you are your own healer, hero, and leader. It is when you share your truth with compassion and peace. Your power grows when you make progress in your own freedom and wisdom. Those who are truly powerful, do not harm themselves or others; instead, they use their energy to enrich all they know with love."  ~ Yung Pueblo

"When we feel anger, irritation, or indignation arising in us, we pause. We stop and come back to our breathing straight away. We do not say or do anything when we are inhabited by this kind of energy, so we don’t escalate the conflict. We wait until we’re calm again. Being able to pause is the greatest gift. It gives us the opportunity to bring more love and compassion into the world rather than more anger and suffering."  ~ Thich Nhat Hanh 

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."  ~ Viktor Frankl

"Much of my confusion and sadness came from being disconnected from myself. The greatest journey I have taken so far is the one where I ended the alienation between me and all that I am; the one where I connected my light and my darkness, where I united what I wanted to know, with what I did not want to face. Only through this union and truthfulness did I begin to feel at home within my own being."  ~ Yung Pueblo

"Heavenly is a hurt, that hollows out a truth - for a bigger heart, for a greater understanding."  ~ Paul Jung 

"The path is paved with consistent, conscious mental and spiritual alertness and the gradual growth of goodness in our heart and clarity in our mind. We are awake. If we keep trying to understand, we will understand. If we keep telling ourselves that we are loved by Life and if we keep looking for evidence of that love, we will find it."  ~ Donna Goddard

"Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process."  ~ Anne Wilson Schaef 

"We must know who we are and where we are." "There is so much more." "Put your efforts towards the things in life that enhance your highest self." "Spiritual principles, if true, are true for everyone. That is the yardstick that validates their authenticity. Authentic spiritual ideas also have the universal power to heal. Healing is the building block of both individual and ~ Donna Goddard

"We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship."  ~ Harville Hendrix

"The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself."  ~ Carl Rogers

“Love is the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or Scott Peck

"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."  ~ Nikki Giovanni

"Sometimes the biggest accomplishment in life is to find yourself."  ~ Luisa Fernanda Cicero

“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows."  ~ Buddha

"Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods." ~  Peter Levine

[dr.dragon]

In India yoga is a male dominated thing

[manindersingh]

U know what keeping them teach them yoga and send them to afganistan or Iraq dispatch with the army

[reygnavio]

Cutting off health care to tax payersHard working people, seniors, retired, militaries, Veterans, schools ...So they can provide yoga better health for prisoners? Wtf....