[YRL] International Prison Yoga Teaching Project - participants needed

[Suzanne.Newcombe]

Happy New Year to all!

I am getting in touch to seek your assistance. I am leading an international research project with colleagues based at  Åbo Akademi University, Finland, New Jersey City University and the University of California.

Our project seeks to understand the values, worldviews, and politics of prison yoga teachers who are either currently working in prisons or have previously done so. We hope this research will gain insights into the spiritual practices and conceptions of the health and wellbeing of prison yoga teachers (PYTs). We are seeking to establish whether there are differences in prison yoga teaching (and teachers) in different countries. Our findings may shape future prison yoga teacher training and/or policies that cover their work.

We originally captured data from PYTs working in the UK and USA but are now extending this to include PYTs working in any country worldwide.

A Participant Information Leaflet (PIL) accompanies this email and the survey can be found via this link:  E-lomake - Teaching Yoga in Prisons International<https://survey.abo.fi/lomakkeet/17307/lomake.html>

If you have taught prison yoga, please consider filling in this survey and, if possible, please complete both Part 1 and Part 2.

Please also feel free to share the survey link and PIL with any other Prison Yoga Teachers who you think would also like to participate.

If you have any questions or would like to discuss this further, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Kind regards, Rose

Rose Parkes (she/her)
LLB (Hons), MA, DipSW, DipBWY, SFHEA, PCCertHE, RSW, PEPS1&2
Part-Time PhD Student
Religious Studies/Criminology
FASS

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