Prison yoga goes digital

In 2025 The PPT created a 12-week yoga course, Freedom Inside with Yoga, for people to follow in their cells in HMP Erlestoke on prison service laptops, known as Launchpads. Part of a 2-year research project, this is a collaboration with colleagues in His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service and Professor of Criminological Psychology Rosie Meek of Royal Holloway University of London. It aims to contribute to an evidence base that will help the wider criminal justice sector understand how continue reading

We are recruiting: could you be our Treasurer?

The Prison Phoenix Trust is recruiting a new voluntary position of TREASURER to join our Board of Trustees. Who we are We are the leading yoga charity in the UK and Ireland, sharing meditation and yoga with people in prison since 1988.

Meet the 2026 Prison Yoga Teacher Cohort

We are proud to welcome our 2026 Prison Yoga Teacher cohort — twenty‑two dedicated yoga teachers who have begun their specialist training to deliver trauma‑informed yoga and meditation inside prisons across the UK and Ireland. This year’s group was selected from more than 60 applicants. Each trainee brings a powerful combination of compassion, teaching experience, and a commitment to making yoga accessible to people who are often excluded from wellbeing spaces. Many also bring lived experience of the care system continue reading