Resources
Want to Know More?All prison volunteers have access to our Resource Library. It includes various forms of movement that can be offered in the prison setting, a non-sectarian Buddhist service, how to discuss difficult topics such as crime and karma, some considerations on re-entry and much more. As courses and additional material is developed, it will be added to this section of our website.
Download our most recent retreat handouts
- 20 Minute Yoga Session
- Buddhist Meditation Services
- Chair Yoga Poses
- COSA: Circle of Support and Accountability
- Crime and Karma
- Facilitating a Group Discussion
- Mission Statement
- Mountain Sun Sky Movement Practice
- Moving in Awareness Qigong
- Teacher and Volunteer Categories
- The Eightfold Path
Helpful information for volunteers
- Advice from Women Quaker Volunteers
- Common Questions Asked by Prison Participants New to Buddhism
- Offering Guided Meditation
- Qigong Movements Often Used During Our Service
- Volunteer Report on a Prison Visit
- Volunteer Training 7-27-15
- Yoga Asanas Often Used During Our Practice (from James Fox’s Yoga Prison Project)
Newsletters
- Winter 2017 Newsletter
- Summer 2016 Newsletter
- Winter 2015 – 2016 Newsletter
- Winter 2013-14 Volunteer Newsletter
- Newsletters (for Incarcerated People)
- Dharma Exchange 12-12
- Dharma Exchange 3-13
Books We Recommend
- How We Practice by Jeff Hardin (pdf)
- Mother California by Ken Hartman
- Razor Wire Dharma by Calvin Malone
- Sitting Inside: Buddhist Practice in America’s Prisons by Kobai Scott Whitney
- Dharma in Hell: The Prison Writings of Fleet Maul by Fleet Maul
- The Issue at Hand by Gil Fronsdal (please email us for information on how to get a copy)
- Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
- When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron
- Be Free Where You Are by Thich Nhat Hahn
DVDs and Organizations
- “Doing Time, Doing Vipassana”(DVD)
- Insight Prison Project
- Prison Dharma Network
- “Prison Yoga Project” by James Fox
- “The Dhamma Brothers”(DVD)
- YouTube: “short” of a 10 day prison retreat
