Richard is one of two men who will be speaking about their experiences of learning yoga and meditation while in prison at the OM Yoga Show later this year. He describes yoga as a “beacon of light” during his time behind bars after being introduced to the practice by a charity, The Prison Phoenix Trust (PPT).
Richard spent most of his early life in ‘the system’ — growing up in care, getting into trouble, serving time in detention centres and borstal, and eventually prison. During one five-year sentence he was moved 12 times. It was during a move to a new prison, at three in the morning, crammed into a prison van with
