Kiara Anthony sent me an article recently on my favorite topic: Yoga and Recovery. She is a regular blogger at Drugrehab.com and kindly lent her writing skill at sharing a piece here. I am passionate about the importance of adding yoga, all yoga practices, to recovery. The asana (physical) practice, the pranayama (breath) practices, meditation…
Preventing Relapse Five Ways I love my fellowship as a group and I love each person in the group. When one person is going through difficulty, we are all affected, and we all suffer when the disease takes one person out. This is a “cunning, baffling and powerful” disease and we must each remain vigilant…
I was speaking with a friend the other day and she boldly asked me that question: “Who is your teacher?” She was talking about yoga, but I heard it at a deep fundamental level. Who is my teacher? I have had many teachers, many guides, many angels who have helped me along the way. Some…
I teach a yoga class at a place that is up in the hills in South San Jose. We start at 9am so today I had this pleasant post rain drive up the hill to the center. While it is an urban drive, a frontage road paralleling a major freeway, there is also a pond…
Here is a great post from one of my favorite blogs: First 164: How about a real review? Here is a simple plan to re-aligning yourself with your daily recovery practice. Evaluate how you are doing energetically, physically, emotionally, intellectually and spiritually. Then take a moment to check in with your peeps. This can get you back…
Relapse prevention activities Basics 1 | Relapse Prevention Activities For anyone who is not yet following this blog – this is hugely worth a read. Kyczy Hawk E-RYT200 is a yoga instructor specializing in teaching yoga to people in recovery and the creator of the SOAR(tm) (Success Over Addiction and Relapse) certification program. Find…
Many of us in recovery have triggers: smells, sights, areas of town or even stories / dramas can trigger a memory. Even worse, some of these can trigger a craving. For instance where I once liked all manner of action shows I now can’t watch the ones with graphic scenes of drug use. I can’t…
I love my fellowship as a group and I love each person in the group. When one person is going through difficulty we are all affected, and we all suffer when the disease takes one person out. This is a “cunning, baffling and powerful” disease and we must each remain vigilant to avoid the being…
Yes – I can relapse – not my substance addiction but my emotional sobriety. How does this happen? How “unlovely” can I BE! What can I do to prevent it? Some event occurs. I come into it feeling vulnerable: insecure, unsure, fearful or uncared for. A conversation commences and does not go well. And I…
I was talking to a woman I sponsor the other day. We were talking about being active in the program (of AA), doing “the footwork” and other things we do to keep our practice of the program alive, when out of my mouth jumped this phrase “my recovery is like a shark; it will die…