Yoga Can Disrupt the School-to-Prison Pipeline
An interview with Niroga Institute founder, BK Bose.
Niroga News - 2012
Niroga offers free App: Manage Your Stress
Four simple techniques you can use anywhere, anytime, to manage stress in just two minutes. Video clips and descriptive text show you how. Use this app at your desk, standing in line, waiting for an appointment - anywhere anytime - to become more calm and relaxed in moments.
From Anger to Positivity in an Hour
Working with the particularly vulnerable students at De Anza High School in Richmond last semester, Niroga brought hour-long yoga classes twice a week to classrooms in the Transitional Education Placement (TEP) program, specifically for students with social/emotional special needs that typically translate into behavioral issues.
Compelling Evidence that TLS Works!
An independent Research Report finds that with TLS, "Students showed lower levels of perceived stress and greater levels of self-control, school engagement, emotional awareness, distress tolerance and altered attitude towards violence."
Finding Peace: A Life Transformed
A single mother of a child with special needs finds inner peace through yoga, and now aspires to teach yoga to low-income African Americans.
Transformative Life Skills for Public Safety
Alameda County public agencies, such as the Sheriff's Office, Health Care Services, and Probation are partnering together along with NGOs, including Niroga Institute, to provide wraparound support services to the inmates of Santa Rita County Jail, in an effort to move it from a detention facility to more of a 'correctional family treatment center'.
Niroga Response to "How Yoga can Wreck Your Body"
BK Bose addresses claims and implications made by the article, and offers some solutions to help bring safe and effective yoga instruction to all population segments.