Spotlight on PYP Ireland | Prison Yoga Project Global Programs

Prison Yoga Project offers a Restorative Justice practice that focuses on recovery from trauma, development of resilience, and cultivation of empathy, compassion, and personal responsibility. Our evidence-supported, trauma-informed approach to yoga and mindfulness supports people in facing and releasing unresolved trauma safely and effectively.

PYP was founded by James Fox at San Quentin Prison where he and his associate instructors have been teaching trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness classes to incarcerated people around the world since 2002.

Prison is extremely stressful, a chronic stress, and any physician can tell you about the effects of stress. Yoga attacks stress through movement, breathing, and meditation which lead to a calmer less stressed self.

D.R.

PYP Participant

It’s time we emphasize healing over punishment

Our mission goes beyond rehabilitation. We advocate for a transformative shift in our culture, from punitive judgment to healing-centered approaches. By investing in healing over punishment, we strive to change society’s perspective on the root causes of harm, addressing issues at their source and breaking the cycles that perpetuate suffering.