About One Love Prison Meditation Project
“I thank Tim for creating the One Love Prison Meditation Project. It gives us old timers on the path an opportunity to meet for meditation and satsang(group discussion) while providing newcomers a chance to learn about meditation and spirituality. Our Wednesday meetings have become the centerpiece of my life.”
Tim Bryant, Founder and Executive Director
Welcome to One Love Prison Meditation Project. I’ve been fortunate to conduct hundreds of prison meditation programs in the last 15 years. The first time I volunteered at Folsom Prison in California, I didn’t know what to expect. I was amazed at the love and peace I felt walking into the prison, and I didn’t expect to feel that. Eventually, I learned why, when an incarcerated man told me, “Many of us haven’t had visitors in years. Our families have gone. This isn’t a place where your spiritual well-being can be a priority. But when someone from the outside comes in to offer their spiritual support to us, it is priceless.” After 14 years of volunteering in prison and seeing firsthand the need and positive impact of teaching meditation classes, I started One Love Prison Meditation Project. Recently at our weekly class in Macon State Prison in Georgia, I discovered that some of our students were Muslim, Christian, and Buddhist. Still, there we all were, coming together to meditate and experience peace and use the practice of meditation to grow emotionally and spiritually, no matter our religion. It was such a beautiful sight. We do this work to give them the love and support to meditate so they may experience healing and so they may experience the peace and joy of their true selves. Thank you for your support.