An Education Officer from a prison in north Israel shares:
“Meditation groups teach the prisoner a language that helps him develop awareness and explore many subjects that come up in his life and preoccupy him. A prisoner who chooses meditation as a way of life, and who practices, can receive great benefit, and it will obviously effect the way he deals with his incarceration and […]
An Education Officer from a prison in central Israel shares:
“Meditation is a tool that can help prisoners in difficult mental states. While practicing meditation, the prisoner is solely focuses on himself and his thoughts, attentive to himself, aware of himself, connected to his subconscious and his simplest and innermost desires as a person. During meditation class, the prisoner has an opportunity to look within […]
An Education Officer from a prison in the north of Israel shares:
An inmate who was really angry restrained himself, walked to one side and took some breathes… he then read a chapter from the book, I think it was Chapter 9, and really practiced – and it worked! Not many share their experiences, but as far as I’m concerned, even one incident is success. If one […]
Meditation Groups
22 Meditation Groups Some of the meditation practice groups are for imprisoned inmates, and others are for released prisoners. Our volunteers facilitate regular groups that meet once a week to practice meditation and discuss the issues that come up during practice, as well as other issues that are relevant to inmates’ lives in prison and […]
Radio Program
A radio station, called Focus Radio, operates in the Israeli Prison system. The station is operated by inmates who completed a radio-broadcasting course as part of their rehabilitation program. The station is situated at Eilon Prison, and broadcasts to all prisons in Israel. The Quiet Within has a weekly meditation program that is broadcast live, […]
Meditation Book
Redirect to read a chapter from the book. The idea to write a meditation book for inmates was born from the thought, that prisoners in our groups only meet the facilitator once a week, and have no additional resources for practice, such as books, courses, independent practice groups and so forth. We wanted the book […]
The “Inner Peace” Wing
The “Inner Peace Wing” program is intended for an entire prison wing, with the idea that all inmates in the wing will participate.During the past 17 years we have led inmates weekly in meditation and have encouraged them to practice daily in-between sessions. The benefits from meditation increase substantially in the short and long term […]
Future activity: concentrated practice days for released prisoners
Released prisoners, who participate in the Israel Prison Authority’s rehabilitation program must stay solely at the place of work or home during the probation period (including “curfew”). The program we offer, of concentrated practice days, will allow them to leave the demanding environment and spend time in an environment that is physically different (nature and […]
Integrating meditation practice in Israel Prison Service’s Attention Centers
“I was a wild student, so my parents took me to an initial diagnosis,” said one of the inmates in the therapeutic program, aged 22. “But my parents couldn’t afford the other part of the diagnosis, and everything stopped. The first time I understood what I suffer from was in prison.” In Dr. Amalia Einat […]
Future Activity: Meditation Facilitators Training Program for Inmates
During the program, inmates who practice in meditation groups, and want to become meditation facilitators in prison, will receive the appropriate training during one year of study. Following this year of study, inmates who are granted permission will facilitate an inmate meditation group, with the continuous assistance of the Quiet Within volunteers. There are a […]