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Starting a Program like Street Yoga

If you're interested in starting a program like Street Yoga where you live and work, please read on for an informative essay by Street Yoga Director Mark Lilly.


original link: http://new.streetyoga.org/news/articles/starting-program-like-street-yoga

Yoga in Juvenile Detention

Working with teenagers is always a dance on the edge. Try it in jail and it's got to be hip-hop ballet just to get through the first five minutes. After that, the breathing takes over.


original link: http://new.streetyoga.org/news/articles/teaching-yoga-juvenile-detention

Food and Shelter are Not Enough

Homeless youth need more than a place to stay and copious food on paper plates. We all do. Read one view on this by Street Yoga's Program Director Katie Arrants.


original link: http://new.streetyoga.org/news/articles/food-shelter-not-enough

Teaching at Juvi -- Donald E. Long in Portland

The following was written in Winter, 2007 by Free Thomas, our primary Juvenile Justice teacher.

He writes: "I am now into my 3rd month teaching yoga to male teenagers in the RAD unit at Donald E. Long facility. I certainly knew from the beginning that this would be a challenge, yet I had no idea in what ways. Luckily, before I ever stepped foot in the unit, the staff had been talking up yoga and getting the guys excited because “Yoga” was coming!

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