What The Outside Can Do For The Inside

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July 19, 2013

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After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.

- Italian Proverb -

What The Outside Can Do For The Inside

"The balancing, breathing, and centering of yoga bring immediate results to prisoners, according to Natalie Smith, executive director of Yoga Behind Bars, a nonprofit that promotes yoga to help soothe the rage, anxiety, and hopelessness of life in prison. " Incarceration is an ineffective band-aid for many other problems -- homelessness, mental health issues, drug addictions. Antisocial behaviors are the tip of the iceberg. Yoga has the potential to go down below the surface and teach skills like coping with stress. In 2010, Yoga Behind Bars dispatched 35 trained volunteers to give classes to 1,400 students in jails, prisons, and treatment centers in Washington state, but demand still exceeded supply. Learn more about this and seven other organizations that are courageously going into prisons and helping them transform from the outside, in. { read more }