Carter (PDN Admin)'s Blog – March 2012 Archive (13)
MBA Project’s Mindfulness Training for Incarcerated Youth Yields Effective Results
PDN Member Project ~ Khyentse Foundation, March 2012
Khyentse Foundation’s grant to the Mind Body Awareness Project (MBA) supported ground-breaking pilot programs that treat stress, anxiety, and insomnia with mindfulness-based practices. The programs also…
Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on March 26, 2012 at 11:30am — 3 Comments
Nonviolent Communication Teachings Bring Peace in Oregon Prisons
from Northwest Dharma News, Spring 2012
Is there a way to handle criminal justice that is more effective and humane than the current approach being used in the U.S, with its focus on long, mandatory prison sentences? Do…
ContinueAdded by Carter (PDN Admin) on March 26, 2012 at 10:00am — No Comments
Go to Trial: Crash the Justice System
By Michelle Alexander for the New York Times, March 11, 2012
AFTER years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless. But some questions a woman I know posed during a phone conversation one recent evening gave me pause: “What would happen if we organized thousands, even hundreds of…
ContinueAdded by Carter (PDN Admin) on March 19, 2012 at 2:30pm — No Comments
Using theater to prepare convicts for a better life
By Marianne de Nazareth for the WeekendLeader.com, Bangalore, India, March 15, 2012
Picture a burly, foul mouthed convict, condemned to life imprisonment for murder, roaming freely in your town as part of a theatre group and then returning to his cell along with prison officials after the show is…
Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on March 15, 2012 at 3:15pm — No Comments
Yoga helps inmates relax
by John Crave for WFMZ News, March 12, 2012
Many of us turn to yoga to relax, but in Easton, there's one class in the last place you might expect it.
"Inhale," said instructor Gary Warren. "Arms up."
At first glance, it looks like just another yoga class.…
ContinueAdded by Carter (PDN Admin) on March 15, 2012 at 2:55pm — No Comments
Prison Yoga Gets Colorado Man Reduced Sentence
for YogaDork, March 7, 2012
Twenty-eight-year-old Vaughn Barnett from Colorado got lucky (enlightened?) yesterday when a judge handed him a sentencing break: just 30 more days in jail. His crime?…
Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on March 15, 2012 at 2:45pm — No Comments
Dementia Behind Bars
By Pam Belluck for the New York Times, February 25, 2012
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Secel Montgomery Sr. stabbed a woman in the stomach, chest and throat so fiercely that he lost count of the wounds he inflicted. In the nearly 25 years he has been serving a life sentence, he has gotten into fights,…
Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on March 1, 2012 at 3:00pm — No Comments
Eight weeks to a better brain
by Sue McGreevey for the Harvard Gazette, Friday, January 21, 2011
Participating in an eight-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress. In a study that will appear in the Jan. 30 issue of…
Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on March 1, 2012 at 2:00pm — No Comments
Prison Yoga: Robbie Norris teaches yoga at the Richmond Jail
Prison Yoga from Spatial Affairs on Vimeo.
Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on March 1, 2012 at 12:30pm — No Comments
Mindfulness in Simple Tasks ~ Reflections on Path of Freedom
By Carter N. Tracy ~ PDN Admin Staff, February 14, 2012
This was my first time going inside The Rhode Island DOC, men's medium security prison as a Path of Freedom facilitator-in-training. I was a little bit nervous at first, but as the class got started, I felt at ease.
We started with a 12-minute…
ContinueAdded by Carter (PDN Admin) on March 1, 2012 at 11:59am — No Comments
Yoga program reaches out to Northampton County Prison inmates, juvenile offenders
Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on March 1, 2012 at 11:19am — No Comments
Yoga Guides Indian Prisoners to Freedom
By Amber Skorpenske for the Institute of International Journalism, Feb 15, 2012
Prisoners in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh are getting out of jail early if they complete yoga courses.
Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on March 1, 2012 at 10:44am — No Comments
Yoga Behind Bars: A Light in Every Cell
by Olivia Silver for the Prison Arts Coalition, February 8, 2012
Yoga Behind Bars - WA Women's Correctional Facility from Olivia Silver on Vimeo.
Yoga Behind Bars is a…
ContinueAdded by Carter (PDN Admin) on March 1, 2012 at 10:25am — No Comments
Latest Blog Posts
Most Popular Blog Posts
Blog Topics by Tags
- prison (19)
- of (16)
- yoga (14)
- Massachusetts (14)
- Path (10)
- Freedom (9)
- Prison (9)
- Fleet (8)
- Norfolk (8)
- Maull (8)
- recidivism (8)
- san (5)
- women (5)
- freedom (5)
- Yoga (5)
- meditation (5)
- Zen (5)
- Project (5)
- Correctional (5)
- justice (4)
- New (4)
- Center (4)
- path (4)
- shambala (4)
- State (4)
- York (4)
- quentin (4)
- India (4)
- River (4)
- San (3)
- juveniles (3)
- Justice (3)
- Chaplain (3)
- fleet (3)
- youth (3)
- communication (3)
- prisoners (3)
- maull (3)
- MCI (3)
- Quentin (3)
- County (3)
- Institution (3)
- awareness (3)
- Buddhism (3)
- retreat (3)
- Jail (3)
- James (2)
- security (2)
- california (2)
- United (2)
- University (2)
- Fox (2)
- Shambhala (2)
- film (2)
- Snake (2)
- for (2)
- Kingdom (2)
- GRIP (2)
- POF (2)
- poetry (2)
- practice (2)
- Law (2)
- Webinar (2)
- prisoner (2)
- Supermax (2)
- Yale (2)
- Hell (2)
- prisons (2)
- Lowell (2)
- project (2)
- corrections (2)
- system (2)
- men's (2)
- activism (2)
- criminal (2)
- mind (2)
- in (2)
- Incarceration (2)
- incarcerated (2)
- Department (2)
- Boulder (2)
- Rhode (2)
- music (2)
- Institute (2)
- inmates (2)
- new (2)
- International (2)
- Education (2)
- Island (2)
- Mindfulness (2)
- England (2)
- bodhicitta (2)
- book (1)
- Fish (1)
- officer (1)
- SMART (1)
- Alexander (1)
- emotional (1)
- Transcendental (1)
- Canada (1)
Donate!
Events
-
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!
0 Comments 1 Like
-
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
0 Comments 4 Likes
-
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
0 Comments 0 Likes
-
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
0 Comments 2 Likes
© 2013 Created by Kate Crisp (PDN Director).
