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Broken Warriors – reaching out to prisoners with yoga

January 2, 2010 by Guest Author 3 Comments

by guest author Adhyatma, Yoga Education in Prisons Trust I first came across the idea of teaching Yoga to prison inmates when I was staying in an ashram in the northern parts of Bihar, India. I had traveled there without much prior knowledge of why I was really going there, what I was in for, or how it had even happened so easily, and so quickly in my life. But it had! I had been attending some Yoga classes in Mt Eden, Auckland for a couple of years with a Satyananda yoga teacher before I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights Tagged With: dharma, prison, prisoners, satyananda, seva, yoga in prisons trust

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