Healing is for all of us.
Since 2008, Yoga Behind Bars has brought trauma-informed yoga into jails, prisons, and detention centers.
We can’t fix our broken criminal legal system without addressing trauma.
YBB programs give people behind bars the opportunity to heal, grow, and prepare for their return to our communities by addressing a root cause of incarceration: trauma.
Our systems of incarceration have long targeted people of color. The fact is, Black people are incarcerated at five times the rate of white people. And the trauma that’s resulted from generations of systemic racism is both a contributor to and a product of our fundamentally flawed justice system. YBB works from the inside to help all incarcerated people heal.
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“Yoga pieced my body and soul back together.”
— YBB Student
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