Dear Friends of yogaHOPE,

yogaHOPE is in the midst of an exciting period of growth. We have completed our first pilot of the Trauma Informed Mind-Body program that more strategically targets vulnerable women in crisis and life transition. The TIMBo program provides teachers with a structured curriculum of 16 sessions that leaves students with tools to address their habituated patterns and symptoms that lead to recidivism, relapse, and entrapment in the cycle of trauma.

We are so excited to pilot the revised version of TIMBo at MCI Framingham (the states only all female prison) starting in October, and to present the program model and preliminary data at the American Society of Criminology Conference in Washington DC this November.

TIMBo offers a deliverable, research-based curriculum based on the ways in which mind-body practices allow for long-term traumatic stress recovery. People will leave our training with the skills and tools to be able to implement our program in their own communities.

With the roll-out of TIMBo, yogaHOPE aims to work with facilities and programs so that they may offer the most comprehensive, integrated and continuous system of care for women as they move toward independence and self-sufficiency. Simultaneously, we are strengthening our infrastructure so that we can expand as an organization, continuing to offer our trainings in and around Boston while offering new trainings throughout the region with an eye toward national work.

 

 

In gratitude

The Board, staff and women of yogaHOPE