Practicing Yoga in Prison Completely Reshaped These Inmates' Lives

These inmates are using Yoga to rehabilitate. The Seattle-based company, Yoga Behind Bars, is one of about a dozen organizations using yoga and mindfulness in their approach to rehabilitation. Volunteer yoga teachers travel four to five hours each way via cars and ferries to the remote Clallam Bay Corrections Center (CBCC) to teach. CBCC houses as many as 858 inmates in medium to maximum security custody. Currently operating at 16 different facilities, Yoga Behind Bars’ network of 102 volunteers work with men, women and juveniles with varied backgrounds and traumatic pasts. Rosa Vissers, Executive Director of Yoga Behind Bars, believes that Yoga is a way for people of any background to discover their goodness and humanity, “I think it’s so important that people behind bars get that message - that they’re worthy, that they’re valuable and that we care about them.”
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