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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.
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
Help Someone in Prison Take Their First Breath Toward Change When Jasper first woke up in a prison cell, he felt like a “broken human.” The weight of what he had done – and the harm he had caused – felt unbearable. He describes those early days as being “wrapped in cling film”: tight, suffocating, and impossible to escape. In the middle of that pressure, Jasper found something unexpected: a yoga mat. “Yoga gave me three inches of air around continue reading