Yoga Education in Prisons Trust YEPT

Yoga Education in Prisons Trust is a registered Charitable Trust that has been providing yoga and mindfulness classes in New Zealand prisons since November 2009.

Our work is an important piece in the rehabilitation process, and international research provides the evidence that regular yoga classes increase self-awareness, enabling people to create long-lasting behavior change.

Yoga education programs are being used around the world in prisons, youth detention centers and rehabilitation centers, to help unravel the complex mix of anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction which many prisoners present with.

Most of these people suffer under the weight of past trauma, historical abuse and layers of addiction, and the physical and mental tools regular yoga classes offer helps them to manage stress, regulate behavior, and begin to understand their offending.

Your donations enable Yoga Education in Prison’s Trust to continue delivering quality yoga classes into prisons nationwide. To administer and gain certification for our nationwide distance learning course; a course with 200+ current enrollments offering material for the beginner through to becoming a peer-instructor.

Making a financial pledge to support Yoga in Prisons really is a chance to be part of the solution. We all want to feel reassured that our giving is going directly to that which creates change for the good, and that is where your pledge will go; healing brokenness, breaking harmful cycles, reuniting families.

Because hurt people hurt people, and healed people heal.