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Mission Statement

Living Yoga is a non-profit outreach program teaching yoga as a tool for personal change in prisons, drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers, transitional facilities, and to populations who would otherwise not have access to it. 

Since 1998, Living Yoga has been offering services out in the community to youth and adults to provide yoga as a platform for transformation and growth.

Both our experience, and research has shown that yoga is invaluable for rehabilitation and recovery; it develops the skills of serenity, mindfulness, impulse control, discernment in decision-making and emotional regulation, as well as interpersonal relationship skills. Ultimately yoga provides a transformational experience that is spiritual in nature and that can affect a permanent change in behavior.

We recognize that the populations we serve have something in common: they are all imprisoned in some way. Some live behind walls and barbed wire, others in the personal prisons created by addiction and abuse. Some of our students bring all of these challenges to the yoga mat.  As they open to the grace of yoga, we see them stepping into new ways of being; developing balance, flexibility, strength and freedom in their lives.