Jim began practicing mindfulness mediation techniques in 2004 and began practicing yoga in 2011 in order to rehabilitate his body following a catastrophic injury. Jim found yoga to be a perfect compliment to his meditation practice. He began his first teacher training in 2012 and has been teaching yoga and meditation for free ever since. He began teaching inmates in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (“TDCJ”) in 2013 and has established yoga programs in four male and three female prisons.