by ybbadmin | Apr 2, 2020 | News
On March 13, due to the global Coronavirus pandemic, Yoga Behind Bars made the decision to temporarily halt our statewide volunteer teacher programs at 11 facilities. To us, this was a no-brainer, as it was in the best interest of our 45 volunteer teachers and their...
by ybbadmin | Apr 2, 2020 | News
I’ve always had this weird paranoid fear of some kind of critical event happening during my sentence before I get out, almost exactly like what’s happening now, so it’s surreal for me and I’m trying to keep a level head… not too much of a...
by ybbadmin | Mar 27, 2020 | News
During this time of a worldwide health crisis, where all of us are encouraged to shelter-in-place and distance ourselves from our loved ones for an indeterminate amount of time, we at YBB are looking to our students and incarcerated teachers for role models. We...
by Amara Oden | Feb 26, 2020 | News
Many people know we offer yoga to incarcerated people with the help of a core of volunteer yoga instructors. However, in addition to providing yoga through our core of 65 volunteers, we have 10 yoga teachers who are incarcerated themselves and teach to fellow inmates....
by Amara Oden | Jan 29, 2020 | Events, News, Student Stories
Can you imagine what it would feel like to go an entire year without being told you matter? Without knowing if others even know or care that you exist? This is the reality of many of my students at the Monroe Correctional Complex (MCC) Washington State Reformatory...
by Maggie Wegener | Dec 13, 2019 | News
Roisin McGlynn is one of YBB’s volunteer instructors at the Maleng Regional Justice Center, a county jail south of Seattle. Read her story about the impact of trauma-informed yoga on our students – and their impact on her. Yoga has never been just...
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