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A bit topsy-turvy here, so the long time in responding. Glad to find you here. I look forward to checking out your wordpress blog as well. All the best."
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Writing as a tool
Started this discussion. Last reply by Susan Austin Dec 16, 2010. 9 Replies 0 Likes
In January I'll be participating in the Path Of Freedom online training, and when winter eases, I hope to explore the possibilities of a meditation group at the women's prison in my area in Idaho.…Continue
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David Chura commented on Susan Austin's blog post Changing Prison Life through Literature"Thanks for posting this. As a high school English teacher for ten years in a county pen it's good to read this kind of thing. I saw on a daily basis locked up kids growing in hope and possibility through education. The strides might be…"
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Changing Prison Life through Literature
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 11:53am 2 Comments 0 Likes
I think this is an interesting article on Prison Arts Coalition website about prison reform and education. Waxler is from Dartmouth and founded Changing Lives Through Literature.
"The prison classroom should become a new…
Continue At Night I Fly
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 10:56am 0 Comments 1 Like
Footage: Albin Höglund
Image: Spoon jackson
It took award-winning documentary filmaker Michel Wenzer ten years to complete the film At Night I Fly. Having gained unprecedented access to New Folsom prison – he…
Continue A Conversation Through The Walls of Solitary Confinement
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 11:30am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Here's a link to Prison Arts Coalition's blog for an article by Arthur Longworth, a 45-year-old prison inmate, now serving time in Monroe, Wash. This article is adapted for Beyond Prisons, the Summer 2011 issue of YES! Magazine, from the essay,…
Doing Time on Norway's Island Prison
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:37pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
"No bars. No walls. No armed guards. The prison island of Bastøy in Norway is filled with some of the country's most hardened criminals. Yet it emphasizes self-control instead of the strictly regulated regimens common in most prisons. "
Here's a link to the article in Der Spiegel about Norways' Bastoy Prison: …
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- I'm an Idahoan and it's snowing. . . I write. . . and practice the dharma, and I'd like to become a mentor after participating in the Path of Freedom online program. I've been practicing meditation primarily in the traditions of Zen & Vipassana.
Fleet Maull has been a great inspiration to me. I am interested in bringing writing to the Path of Freedom training as a tool to empower children suffering from war, youth-at-risk, adult women inmates to find their voices, to unburden their hearts: to tell their stories.
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- At 2:09pm on December 16, 2010,
Tamon Mark Uttech said… Onegasihimasu, hello Susan, pleased to be your friend!
In gassho,
tamonmark
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PMI's FREE Post-Release Community Meditation & Yoga Class
April 1, 2013 at 4:30pm to July 1, 2013 at 5:45pm – Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence
Prison Mindfulness Institute's FREE Post Release / Community Meditation and Yoga class at the Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence: Every MONDAY, 4:30 - 5:45 with Richard Sylvester a…
Organized by Carter (PDN Admin) | Type: class, -, every, monday!
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Prison Yoga Teacher Training
June 29, 2013 at 11am to June 30, 2013 at 6pm – California Institute of Integral Studies
The Prison Yoga Project (PYP) in collaboration with the Insight Prison Project is offering a special training at San Francisco’s California Institute of Integral Studies (C.I.I.S.) for yoga teachers…
Organized by jennifer@insightprisonproject.org | Type: yoga, facilitator, training
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Yoga of Recovery Certificate Courses
August 4, 2013 to August 14, 2013 – Yoga Farm, Grass Valley, CA, USA
Yoga Alliance certification CEUs available Yoga of Recovery is the first comprehensive course to combine Ayurveda and Yoga with traditional recovery tools to offer a more holistic mind, body, spirit…
Organized by Durga Leela | Type: certificate, training, course
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Path of Freedom Webinar (Autumn)
September 9, 2013 at 7pm to September 26, 2013 at 9pm – Online
With Fleet Maull September 9 - 26 Six Sessions, (Mondays & Thursdays for three weeks) Hope you can join us! Hours for the training are: 7-9pm Eastern 5-7pm Mountain Time 4-6pm Pacific This progr…
Organized by Carter (PDN Admin) | Type: webinar
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