Yoga Behind Bars

Welcome to YBB Online!

Nearly 500 instructors have completed our  in-person in trauma-informed training.  Now, for the first time, our celebrated training is available online!

YBB Online™ offers an informed, inclusive and effective trauma-informed yoga training and classes to help people learn yoga, refine a regular practice or use in social service settings. You'll receive a practical and accessible roadmap for leveraging yoga’s potential impact on personal healing and reflection, community building, challenging stereotypes, and lasting social change. Study with teachers running a nationally recognized program that is being used to transform the criminal justice system from the inside out. Peace is an inside job. But it starts with you and with each other. Join us today. 

Check out our free  intro video inside the site!

About Yoga Behind Bars

Yoga Behind Bars (YBB) is a Washington State non-profit dedicated to bringing yoga and meditation to prisons, jails, and detention centers. Our programs promote rehabilitation, help to build safer , more resilient communities, and contribute to reform of the corrections system. Since 2008, we have equipped thousands of incarcerated adults and  youth with the physical and mental tools to change their lives from the inside out.

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About YBB Online

YBB Online™ offers an informed, inclusive and effective trauma-informed yoga training and classes to help people learn yoga, refine a regular practice or use in social service settings. You'll receive a practical and accessible roadmap for leveraging yoga’s potential impact on personal healing and reflection, community building, challenging stereotypes, and lasting social change.