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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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