Laotong Yoga Prison Project

The mission of Laotong Yoga is to share the practices of meditation and trauma informed yoga with individuals incarcerated in WV correctional facilities and with others involved with the criminal legal system, whether through re-entry, recovery, rehabilitation, or employment. 

Laotong Yoga is a beacon of social justice and mindfulness-based practices, and works with the criminal legal system in recognizing the humanity, potential, and value of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated persons.

The purpose of Laotong Yoga 

is to help individuals develop tools for self-empowerment, reduction of stress, healing of trauma, and promotion of safety, and that systems promote strategies incorporating principles of social justice into a transformed criminal legal system.