Increase resilience

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.

About the instructor

Josefin Wikström

Josefin 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.

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