{"id":6899,"date":"2008-06-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/06\/23\/yoga-helps-juvenile-offenders\/"},"modified":"2008-06-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T12:00:00","slug":"yoga-helps-juvenile-offenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/06\/23\/yoga-helps-juvenile-offenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoga Helps Juvenile Offenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/features\/lifestyle\/chi-offenders-yoga-fill-0611jun11,0,749898.story\">www.chicagotribune.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTES, June 23, 2006: A cramped room inside a locked school for juvenile offenders does not seem like the ideal setting in which to find inner peace. And yet, five teenage boys, each with a history of violent behavior, have gathered here to focus on their breath, test their strength in yoga poses and to escape. &#8220;You lose all the worries, you know what I mean?&#8221; said Jason, one of the youths, after an hour of yoga. <\/p>\n<p>Yoga for juvenile offenders is relatively rare, but yoga and similar stress-relieving practices such as meditation have been used in prisons for years. A study last year on mindfulness in Prison Journal, an international publication, evaluated 1,350 inmates who completed 113 courses. Improvement was found on &#8220;less hostility and mood disturbance, while self-esteem increased.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.chicagotribune.com BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTES, June 23, 2006: A cramped room inside a locked school for juvenile offenders does not seem like,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}