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About: Anneke Lucas

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Profile: Anneke Lucas is the director of Prison Yoga Project in New York. She currently teaches yoga and meditation at six facilities, to both male and female inmates, and places trained yoga instructors in prisons, jails and re-entry facilities. Serving in prisons synthesizes Anneke’s experiences with psycho-therapy, meditation and ashtanga yoga, bringing physical therapy, mindful awareness and peace to those most receptive to its benefits. Anneke graduated from the American Film Institute as a screenwriter and published a novel in her home country Belgium. She is currently working on a memoir about her childhood spent in circumstances as chaotic, violent and abusive as in any prison.
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Goal of Life in Maximum Security: Meet your new teacher.

by Anneke Lucas on Feb 9, 2012

“I’ve discovered that the energy of devotion is the same as the energy of gratitude. … Even here in a place like this it is easy to find gratitude for many things, like having yard every day, for having programs so we can rehabilitate ourselves, for having many like-minded people I can talk to, for getting three meals a day, for the sunshine…”

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Yoga at San Quentin: I could have been with monks in the Himalayas, surrounded by majestic mountain peaks.

by Anneke Lucas on Jan 11, 2012

During the finishing postures, a peaceful quiet settled over everyone, and we were spared the din of alarms, gunshots (from the shooting range in the nearby hills where CO’s and other officers hold their firing practice), and the testosterone-spiked clamor from the adjoining yard.

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Interview with San Quentin Yoga teacher: Video and class photos.

by Anneke Lucas on Jun 6, 2011

“When I first started teaching, I’d walk in with my yoga mat under my arm, and the guys on the yard would whistle at me.”

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Yoga at San Quentin: Prisoner Interviews and Photos.

by Anneke Lucas on May 6, 2011

“I stabbed an innocent person to death… and it is something I’m very ashamed of. When I started to get in touch with the harm and grief I caused, it was very, very hard to live with. I felt so guilty I couldn’t see how I could ever be good again.”

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Know about yoga & meditation for incarcerated & at-risk youth?

by Anneke Lucas on Mar 23, 2011

“Personally, I’m a little violent, but, you know, I think I need yoga and meditation, ’cause all the scars on my body and shit – ‘scuse my French – you know, I need something to calm me down besides hydros and liquor and girls and the purple.”

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