Yoga can help even problem inmates become more compassionate, self-aware and hopeful.
It can be hard enough to develop a yoga-based personal development plan when your day-to-day life is crowded with work assignments, traffic jams, screaming kids and dirty dishes. But what if you were even more stuck? What if you were serving a sentence in prison?
Evidently, yoga and meditation are quite effective at calming down inmate populations and facilitating the creation of their personal development goals. According to Reuters, a nonprofit group in Mexico City is leading juvenile offenders in yoga classes a few days each week.
This population of teens, which by its very nature can be quite explosive, has lately been calmer, quieter and more optimistic, sources told the news organization. Reuters noted that the program reaches six detention centers in the city.
This is not the first time a yoga program has made headlines for reaching out to troubled youth. In April, the news source described the positive results of a yoga regimen being carried out among female prisoners in Pakistan.
Studies in journals like the Contemporary Justice Review and the Californian Journal of Health Promotion have indicated that yoga can help even problem inmates become more compassionate, self-aware and hopeful.
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