Trauma Informed Mindfulness In Jail with Snjezana Pruginic

In today’s show, Snjezana Pruginic shares her journey from working 1:1 with clients as a Shiatsu therapist to bringing mindfulness and body based healing work into the criminal justice system. As well as the impact that mindfulness, emotional resilience and body based practices can have on individuals who are inside the justice system.

Snjezana Pruginic is a Wellness  Professional (Trauma-informed Shiatsu Therapist, Meditation Instructor) Community Justice Worker + Youth Worker, and Writer with over 20 years experience intersecting well-being, health, healing and community practise through trauma aware, anti-oppressive and social justice frameworks. Her work is rooted in co-creation of individual and collective spaces for healing which are restorative and holistic in nature.

Currently, Snjezana’s focus is on looking at how we can create a more healing centered approach to our Criminal Justice System by advocating for and integrating trauma aware approaches which are body-mind based, anti-oppressive and restorative justice rooted

In addition to teaching and facilitating, Snjezana’s passion also sits with various opportunities in holding space for individuals to do their inner work around personal narratives and trauma so they can propel change they are looking for in their life. She is currently developing a self-study emotional resiliency program anchored in the belief that we can tap into the ease of our resilience when we hone our skill to respond instead of react to life.

PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS

• How Snjezana transitioned from being a shiatsu therapist to doing mindfulness + body based work in the criminal justice system
• What Snjezana’s work actually looks like inside of the justice system
• Where Snjezana felt her work with incarcerated individuals could be most impactful
• How mindfulness & body based practices actually create change for individuals within the justice system
• The trauma created by the justice system itself
• How emotional resiliency can help end the crime cycle
• How long it actually takes to see results from incorporating mindfulness & body based practices into the justice system
• What frustrates Snjezana most about the public perception of people who have been incarcerated
• Snjezana also shares several stories of what it's actually like inside of the jails for inmates

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