October 2010 Blog Posts (9)

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Evidence-Based Mindfulness Interventions

Summary by Dave Vago listed on the Contemplative Mind in Society Blog:

http://contemplativemind.wordpress.com/2010/10/29/evidence-based-mindfulness-interventions/

Added by Fleet Maull on October 31, 2010 at 12:04pm — No Comments

Time to "Think Outside the Box" on CORI Reform: Jobs for Ex-Offenders

At the beginning of my ten years teaching teenagers in a county lockup, years I chronicle in I Don’t Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine: Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup (Beacon

Press), I was always surprised, and yes, disappointed, when one of my students

got rearrested.





Jail’s a sobering place no matter how tough you want to think you are. The deprivation, brutality,…

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Added by David Chura on October 27, 2010 at 5:13pm — 3 Comments

The Prison Wives Movement 



The Prison Wives Movement is striving to be adopted by "Prison Wives" all

over the world, to unite and support one another.



A "Prison Wife" is simply a woman who has to deal with a prison system due

to her husband being incarcerated.



We want to help women all over to come out of…
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Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on October 27, 2010 at 11:17am — No Comments

THINK OF TOMORROW

NOTE: THIS IS A RECENT BLOGPOST FROM MY SON WHO IS IN PRISON IN COLORADO. I maintain a distribution list and email his posts to about 50 friends and family. We also use MySpace and Facebook. If you would like to read some of his earlier writing, or would like to be a friend online (Facebook primarily) or want to be added to the email list, just contact me. I am including this here for the…

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Added by Juanita Rice on October 21, 2010 at 1:00pm — 2 Comments

Stand by Me Lin Jensen opens his heart to a schoolyard, from Shambhala Sun Nov. 2010

The author of Deep Down Things, Lin Jensen is the founding

teacher of the Chico Zen Sangha in Chico, California.



A few years after I undertook Buddhist practice, I took the four bodhisattva vows, the first of which is, “Though beings are numberless, I vow to save them all.”

“All beings?” I asked. “People, birds, trees, stones?”

“All beings,” I was told.

“How,” I asked, “do I save all beings?”

The answer: “By… Continue

Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on October 15, 2010 at 6:48pm — 1 Comment

Prison Yoga by James Fox



“Hey Yogaman!” a guy yells as I’m buzzed through the gate at San Quentin State Prison. It’s a Tuesday, 2:30 P.M. I walk onto the yard past two correctional officers leaning against the building as they monitor the outdoor activities of inmates. On the way to the classroom two of my students intercept me, eager to help prepare our makeshift yoga studio. After tables and chairs are stacked, the floor mopped, and mats pulled out of storage, we’re… Continue

Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on October 11, 2010 at 12:32pm — 3 Comments

PRACTICAL YOGA OUTREACH TRAINING TO SERVE INCARCERATED COMMUNITIES

NOVEMBER 6-7, 2010





The Prison Yoga Project, Yoga Activist.org, and the Give Back Yoga Foundation are offering a special training for yoga teachers and students interested in working with the incarcerated.



James Fox, the founder and director of PYP, will lead the training drawing on his years of experience teaching yoga and meditation to incarcerated youth and adults including 8 years at San Quentin Prison.



This two-day training will include a wealth of… Continue

Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on October 11, 2010 at 12:25pm — No Comments

Juvenile Justice and Education Reform: The Children Still Left Behind

Statewide test day and Damian was psyched. He didn’t sleep much the night before from worrying. Still, he was there on time, ready to go. Now he sat hunched over his desk, head down, lips moving as he read, his pen

carefully inching across the paper.





He was like any other kid in his grade taking the mandated English exam. The only difference was that he was locked up in an adult county jail in Westchester,…

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Added by David Chura on October 8, 2010 at 10:43am — 3 Comments

A little shameless promotion

For those of you that liked that picture of the Dalai Lama I drew I decided up put it up on Ebay for auction. I had spoke with my spiritual mentor while in prison because I had some misgivings about charging to religious works but he assured me that as long as what I do with the money… Continue

Added by Jared Beekman on October 2, 2010 at 12:00pm — 6 Comments

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