In episode 43, Jivana interviews Bill Brown from Prison Yoga Project.
In this episode, Jivana and Bill discuss:
- Bill’s background and personal interests
- How Bill started his yoga practice
- How Bill ended up volunteering teaching in prison
- Childhood trauma
- How trauma is stored in the body
- What teaching in prison is like
- Society failing to care for people
- COVID disrupting Prison Yoga Project’s work
- The business back end for people who want to teach yoga in prisons
- Yoga as shamanistic soul retrieval and relationship building
- Accessible Yoga Training
- Prison and disenfranchised people
- Bill’s experience facilitating classes
- Supporting students with grounding and emotional release
- Subtlety in yoga practice
- Hierarchy and empowerment
- Neuroscience perspective
- Letting go of fear and moving into love and connection
