Ep.9 Youth in Prisons with Leslie Booker

Prison Mindfulness

In this episode, Leslie Booker speaks with cohost Julie Paquette about her time working with incarcerated youth.

• “What do we do about it?” The inspiration to truly see the unseen
• The process of developing trust
• “The function of freedom is to free someone else"

LESLIE BOOKER Booker is a Buddhist Meditation Teacher, Writer and Lover of Liberation. She shared the practices of yoga and mindfulness with children who had been incarcerated in juvenile facilities and Rikers Island, and other vulnerable populations in NYC for over a decade. The gifts from this work have allowed Booker to show up with a fierce heart to cultivate a space of belonging. She is a co-author of ‘Best Practices for Yoga in a Criminal Justice Setting’, a contributor to Georgetown Law's report on ‘Gender & Trauma and contributed to Sharon Salzberg's book ‘Happiness at Work’. She is a co-founder of the Yoga Service Council at Omega Institute and the Meditation Working Group of Occupy Wall Street. In 2020 she was invited to be a Sojourner Truth Leadership Fellow through Auburn Seminary, graduated from Spirit Rock’s 4 year Retreat Teacher Training, and was voted by her peers as one of the 12 Powerful Women in the Mindfulness Movement.
To Learn More About the Prison Mindfulness Institute, please visit www.prisonmindfulness.org