Josefin Wikstrom & James Fox

Josefin Wikström is the Prison Yoga Project’s (PYP) Program Director and Training Coordinator for Europe. She lives in Sweden where she teaches yoga and movement at a high security women’s prison, and at a maximum security men’s prison. She has co-created the Swedish evidence based prison yoga program, Krimyoga. She is currently developing therapeutic programs and staff training for Sweden’s forensic psychiatry units and their juvenile justice system. She is a licensed Minded Yoga therapist for working within health care systems. Additionally, she has extensive trainings in the field of trauma therapy with the Trauma Centre in Boston and the Trauma Research Foundation. She has taught teacher trainings for PYP in Europe, the U.S., Israel, Mexico and India (where she helped establish yoga programs in women’s jails). She has been working as a full-time teacher focusing on yoga for trauma-exposed populations since 2003. James Fox M.A is the founder of the Prison Yoga Project (PYP). He is a certified yoga instructor who has dedicated himself to developing a trauma informed approach to teaching yoga in correctional facilities, that has resulted in the establishment of yoga programs in prisons throughout the U.S., Mexico, Europe, Australia and other countries. A practitioner of yoga and mindfulness meditation for more than 30 years, upon receiving his teaching credentials in 2000, James began his mission of sharing the benefits of yoga with incarcerated people. He has taught yoga classes at San Quentin Prison since 2002. He is also trained in restorative justice principles and practices, and has experience facilitating victim/offender education, emotional literacy, and violence prevention courses with prisoners.