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James Fox - Meditation in Prisons

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Health & Fitness

4.3823 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

James Fox is the founder of the Prison Yoga Project, an organization that teaches yoga and meditation inside prisons. He works with prisoners who've been impacted by chronic interpersonal trauma most of their lives. His goal is meet these prisoners with dignity and understanding and to inspire positive behavioral change.

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0:31.9

Hello everyone and welcome to Untangle, the meditation podcast from Guyam.

0:36.5

I'm your host, Patricia Carpice. In this series,

0:39.6

we introduce you to real people with extraordinary stories and experts who have devoted their

0:44.4

lives to teaching and helping others through meditation. In today's episode, I sat down with

0:50.6

James Fox, founder of the Prison Yoga Project. This project was founded in the belief that yoga and mindfulness can bring about change in prisoners who've been impacted by chronic trauma for most of their lives.

1:04.1

His work has taken him inside San Quentin, where he's taught some of their most violent offenders.

1:11.8

Here's his story. Here's his story.

1:17.1

James, welcome to our podcast.

1:19.7

Thank you so much for coming in today.

1:21.8

I'm really happy to be here.

1:23.1

Yeah, so I've done a little bit of research on you, and I have to say over the last couple of days,

1:29.0

I've been emotionally connected to the work that you've been doing.

1:36.0

I even surprised myself.

1:37.4

I think I changed how I feel about the prisoner population a little bit just from really trying to understand the work you do and your

1:45.6

motivation for doing that work. So I want to start with understanding who you were as a kid.

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