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Yoga for Youth provides incarcerated youth in Los Angeles County Detention Center camps with a yoga and meditation program conducted by accomplished yoga instructors, any of whom have 15-20 years of teaching experience and creative arts exposure and training with professional artists. The program consists of up to six months of Yoga and Meditation instruction to detention center youths prior to their release into the communities. The program is design to help facilitate their transaction into a more constructive life by teaching skills in anger management, stress reduction, and emotional control. Learning stress and anger management through Yoga and Mediation demonstrates alternative means to deal with their daily challenges and generates different cognitive ways of perceiving themselves and the world.

Participants at detention camps Kilpatrick, Miller, and Sylmar Juvenile Hall Yoga Classes, eagerly report how Yoga has helped them control their tempers more easily and keep calm when other inmates are trying to antagonize them. Their outlook on life invariably changes from one of hopelessness and despair in the early stages of the program to one of optimism and determination in the later weeks. It also demonstrates to their own potential growth, self-actualization, and for developing a feeling of competency.

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