For Prisons

Find out how yoga and meditation can benefit your prison regime and how we can help you.

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For Yoga Teachers

More information about teaching in prison and how we can work with you.

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Who We Are

The Prison Phoenix Trust encourages prisoners in the development of their spiritual welfare, through the practices of meditation and yoga, working with silence and the breath.

We offer personal support to prisoners around the UK and the Republic of Ireland through teaching, workshops, correspondence, books and newsletters – and to prison staff too. We work with people of any faith, or of none, and honour all religions.

“I still find it hard to get in touch with my feelings. My gut tells me sadness is something I have a lot of. Today after my morning sitting I stopped and thought about how I feel about myself. My awareness shot to the memory of me as a little boy, and I felt a cocktail of sadness, feeling sorry, and maybe compassion for this little boy, who I realise is still within me. Sometimes I feel a vast space down inside my body that is so still. Anger can come back like a tidal wave and if I’m quick I observe it and the flames die very quickly and I feel like I’ve grown or maybe changed. This is so empowering.”

Frank, HMP The Mount

Latest News

The Prison Phoenix Trust has reached a milestone of 10 contracts providing yoga, meditation or mindfulness programmes to prisons throughout England. People serving sentences in HMP Maidstone now have the chance to take care of their mental and physical health with regular yoga and meditation classes in the prison’s new sports hall. The contract to deliver a year of yoga classes was awarded through the Ministry of Justice Dynamic Purchasing System and guarantees reliability and certainty for prison staff and &hellip read more

Two new faces have joined The Prison Phoenix Trust, expanding and strengthening its staff team and board of trustees.   Rebecca Durrant, has joined as deputy director.  She has over 15 years of experience working in small charities in operations and deputy director roles, including most recently managing a food bank in East Oxford. She is helping the organisation plan and implement systems changes needed for it to meet the demand for its services from a growing prison population.   Stefan Lerche, &hellip read more

We are delighted to announce that The Prison Phoenix Trust has been Highly Commended for supporting the health and wellbeing of people in prison in the 2024 Inspire Justice Awards. Host Clive Myrie presented our Director Selina Sasse and the team with a Highly Commended Health and Wellbeing Employer of the Year award, saying: “Their work represents the best of us.” Helen Judge, Area Executive Director HMPPS, recognised The PPT’s work with ‘some of the most troubled in society’. In &hellip read more