Amina Naru - "Yoga in the Criminal Justice System"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

Yoga, Health & Fitness, Yogateacher, Alternative Health, Yogaindustry, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Amina Naru, board member and project manager at the Yoga Service Council, owner of Posh Yoga, talks with J about her work bringing yoga into juvenile detention centers and prisons, and the new Best Practices for Yoga in the Criminal Justice System. They discuss her spiritual name, some of the trials and tribulations that have shaped her journey into yoga, her experience of being a black woman in a predominantly white profession, the process of creating community, and the profound gift of shared acceptance, wellness, and purpose.

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:11.8	Is that time again?
0:13.5	You are listening to Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:17.3	My name is Jay Brown.
0:19.2	Welcome and thanks to new and returning listeners.
0:24.7	Glad to be with you.
0:27.1	I am returned to the States, for those of you who have been following along.
0:32.0	I made it back from my European trip.
0:36.8	I did catch a bit of a cold on my last day in Switzerland, of course,
0:42.7	as I've been a bit under the weather upon returning, only now emerging from it. But it was a
0:50.5	great trip, and it's good to be back. It's really just wonderful to be with my family.
0:58.0	I'm so grateful for my wife and my two wonderful children.
1:03.1	I missed them.
1:04.9	And this morning, it was Sunday morning,
1:08.0	and I took my two daughters to go have brunch.
1:12.9	It's sort of been a thing that I've done with them.
1:15.2	You know, just go get eggs and potatoes and pancakes and a waffle.
1:19.0	We get everything.
1:20.0	And I ate way too much.
1:22.7	But it was so great.
1:24.1	They're getting so much older.
1:26.4	And my youngest, I'm so amazed, she's,
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