How teaching yoga in prisons changed my life… | Geoff O’Meara from Prison Yoga Project

A Stillpoint portrait of Geoff O’Meara, a Prison yoga educator and teacher who lives in Leicester, UK Geoff talks about how yoga changed his life and how it led him to teach yoga to incarcerated people. Geoff is now the UK head of Prison Yoga Project. — Prison Yoga Project envisions a cultural-shift toward a healing centered approach to addressing crime, substance use disorder, and mental health disorders. Their mission is to provide programs for rehabilitation and resilience rooted in yoga and embodied mindfulness. You can find out more about PYP here: https://prisonyoga.org/ — This portrait was filmed by Scott Johnson from Stillpoint Yoga London. You can find out more about Stillpoint and our in-person and online daily Ashtanga yoga classes here: https://tinyurl.com/mryssnae — Follow Scott Johnson on Instagram: https://tinyurl.com/yck4zj2u — Join The Still Space each week: https://tinyurl.com/yje7865a Support our work and have your own conversations like these at Stillpoint Online, our on-demand and weekly philosophy, meditation and discussion platform. For just £20 per month you can watch our on-demand videos and join our Monday night Still Space, where we have beautiful discussions and practices on the deeper aspects of yoga.