Increase resilience
60 min Prison Yoga For everyone with Josefin Wikström
About this session
Strengthening and balancing practices to strengthen the resilience in the nervous system and the mind. Through these movements, you can increase the resistance towards stress and strengthen both the body and mind. This class contains practices that underlie the randomized Swedish study 'Yoga in an institutional environment', published in 2016. The results in the study demonstrate yoga as an evidence based method for improving mental health for prisoners.
This class is a part of the Prison Yoga Project.
This class is a part of the Prison Yoga Project.
Your instructor
Josefin WikströmTraumatisk stress i fängelsemiljö, PTSD, Traumaanpassad yoga och dansterapi-program för mental hälsa · 39 classesJosefin Wikström has been bringing yoga and dance into the Swedish prisons since 2008. Josefin is responsible for developing the Prison Yoga Programs for Yogobe, she has been working as a full-time teacher focusing on yoga for trauma-exposed populations since 2003.