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Celebrity chef and businessman Levi Roots offers advice to people trying to stay healthy in prison, drawing on his own experience of serving time inside. If you have ever wanted to look and feel amazing, both in mind, body and spirit, I am here to tell you that it is possible to achieve it. Perhaps you have had doubts, lack of confidence or simply unable to focus and maintain an exercise program until you can see and feel the true continue reading
We spent a day with Emma, who teaches yoga and meditation to particularly vulnerable children aged 15-18 in a young offenders institution. The boys have various and complex needs, including neurodiversity, learning disabilities, special educational needs, behavioural problems, and lots of trauma. Some are serving long sentences of 15 years or more. Emma arrives with a big bag of yoga mats at a block is made up of 4 wings, each with 12 cells down one side, doors opening out continue reading
Ahead of the Women and Justice: A New Direction summit in London this week, the award-winning Prison Phoenix Trust (The PPT) has emphasised that addressing the mental health needs of women in prison is a fundamental aspect of justice reform. And it is sharing the latest findings from its mindful yoga and meditation programmes delivered in two women’s prisons throughout 2023 and 2024. According to recent government statistics, 82% of women in prison report mental health problems, and one third continue reading