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We are proud to welcome our 2026 Prison Yoga Teacher cohort — twenty‑two dedicated yoga teachers who have begun their specialist training to deliver trauma‑informed yoga and meditation inside prisons across the UK and Ireland. This year’s group was selected from more than 60 applicants. Each trainee brings a powerful combination of compassion, teaching experience, and a commitment to making yoga accessible to people who are often excluded from wellbeing spaces. Many also bring lived experience of the care system continue reading
Help Someone in Prison Take Their First Breath Toward Change When Jasper first woke up in a prison cell, he felt like a “broken human.” The weight of what he had done – and the harm he had caused – felt unbearable. He describes those early days as being “wrapped in cling film”: tight, suffocating, and impossible to escape. In the middle of that pressure, Jasper found something unexpected: a yoga mat. “Yoga gave me three inches of air around continue reading
A pioneering project in south‑west England is using yoga and meditation to support people with long histories of offending—and early signs suggest it’s making a real difference. Repeat offending is a major challenge for the criminal justice system. Adults with 11 or more previous offences make up around 39% of all adult offenders, yet they account for 78% of total adult reoffences. Helping this group to change course could significantly reduce crime and ease pressure on overcrowded prisons. But so‑called continue reading