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Prison Nonviolence Project
By Kate Olson for PBS, May 10, 2013
KATE OLSON, correspondent: For most of its 160 year history, San Quentin has been known as a tough place to do hard time. But over the past two decades, this has begun to change.
Thanks to thousands of engaged citizens…
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Washington prison brings together solitary inmates
By Shannon Dininny, Associated Press, May 12, 2013
Six inmates, each shackled and chained to a chair,…
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LIVE WELL: Yoga eases stress on prisoners
By Jen Mulson for The Gazette, April 30, 2013
There are a handful of yogic paths, and karma yoga is known as that of selfless service.
I've met several yoga teachers this year who are practicing karma yoga in our local criminal justice system. They are teaching prisoners and…
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German prisoners find their inner Zen
Feelings of guilt and hopelessness can put extreme pressure on prisoners. In one German prison, inmates are discovering a new sense of calm with regular meditation that also prepares them for life on the outside.
André S. recently celebrated his 32nd birthday behind bars. A…
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FILM: When the Iron Bird Flies
In 1959, the Chinese invasion of Tibet threw open the doors to the mysterious realm of Tibetan Buddhism and suddenly this rich, ancient tradition was propelled into the modern world. Half a century later, Padmasambhava’s prophecy has come true and the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism are found in every corner…
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Namaste: Doing yoga while doing time
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Voices from Solitary: A Sentence Worse Than Death
The following essay is by William Blake, who has been held in solitary confinement for nearly 26 years. Currently he is in administrative segregation at Elmira Correctional Facility, a maximum security facility located in south central New York State. In 1987, Blake, then 23 and in county court on a drug charge, murdered one deputy and wounded another in a failed escape attempt. He was sentenced to 77 years to life. …
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Finding Your Way Around Prison Mindfulness Institute
By Carter Tracy, PMI Admin & Books Behind Bars Coordinator
In 2012, PDN-headquarters changed the name of our primary organization to the Prison Mindfulness Institute. We created a brand new website reflecting our current projects and visions for new endeavors. The Prison Dharma…
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U.S. Prisons Don’t Fund Education, and Everybody Pays a Price
By Michael Fleischer for TakePart.com, March 1, 2013
After a murder charge at 13, Xavier McElrath-Bey earned a college degree behind bars and now saves lives. All convicts should have that chance.
Xavier McElrath-Bey was locked up as an accomplice to murder before his 14th birthday. A participant in a …
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San Quentin Prison Demo Day Gives Entrepreneurs Behind Bars A Second Chance
By Josh Constine for TechCrunch.com, February 22, 2013
Barbed wire and armed guards aren’t your typical intro to a startup pitch event. But today, San Quentin Prison hosted The Last Mile demo day featuring…
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Military Battle PTSD With Yoga
By David Wood for The Huffington Post, December 12, 2012
For a decade, troops returning from war with mental and physical trauma have been dosed with cocktails of numbing drugs and corralled into talk-therapy sessions, often with civilian clinicians who have no experience in combat…
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Dos and Don'ts When Teaching Mindfulness
By Deborah Schoberlein for the Huffington Post, February 12, 2012
In education, we always try to emphasize the positive and encourage best practices; after all,…
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Can Court Mandated Yoga and Meditation Keep Kids Out of Prison?
By Beth Navon for Good.is Feb. 13, 2013
The Lineage Project’s mission is to keep young people, ages 11 to 24, out of the juvenile/criminal…
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Minding Myself, Minding Others
Reflections on the Path of Freedom Webinar
By Joyce Greenberg for Daily Self Cure (blog), February 4, 2013
Besides the Zen meditation retreat I attended last weekend, I also had two mindfulness experiences last week that reinforced the value of my…
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A Series of Poses for Fitness, Inside and Out
By Mary Pilon for The New York Times, January 3, 2013
RICHMOND, Va. — Three times a week, Robbie Norris, a lean, 50-year-old …
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Reborn Behind Bars
By Sarah Drumm for Gainesville Today, November 15, 2012
Becky Porter spent three days in agony, her lower back and shoulders searing in painful protest of spending hours and hours each day seated cross-legged, upright, hands clasped, on a thin cushion in Lowell…
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Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche: "Being in the present...
"Being in the present is the core strategy of Buddhism to do whatever it takes to keep the mind present, to have ones mind from going astray... Ideally the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the fut
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Prisoners Find Hope and Healing with Meditation and Yoga
By Sam Settle for The Ecologist, November 5, 2012
As a new study shows prisoners who practice yoga and meditation are…
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New Book: Buddhas Behind Bars
Introduction and Afterthoughts by Tonen O'Connor, Resident Priest Emerita at Milwaukee Zen Center
The three inmates doing time for violent crime recount their early lives,…
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Yoga: How We Serve Diverse Populations
By Rob Schware for the Huffington Post, October 17, 2012
This is an interview with Nancy Candea, who started teaching teens, seniors, expectant mothers and children in Waimea, Hawaii back in 1997. She opened her studio for a free interfaith devotional, meditation, and dinner on Sundays.…
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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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Path of Freedom Webinar (Spring)
May 6, 2013 at 7pm to May 23, 2013 at 9pm – Online
With Fleet Maull May 6 - 23 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 program is…
Organized by Carter (PDN Admin) | Type: facilitator, training, webinar
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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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