Recovery Month Community Events

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MONTEREY NAR-ANON CONVENTION JAN 9-11, 2009

We will be holding a convention alongside the Monterey Bay Covention of Narcotics Anonymous (MBCNA)
www.mbcna.org

This is an opportunity for the addict and his/her family to attend conventions together!

1/9/2009 7:00 PM to 1/11/2009 11:00 PM

Portola Plaza Hotel and Spa
2 Portola Plaza
Monterey, CA 93940

To be announced! Please keep checking our convention website page:http://nar-anon.org/conventions3.htm

The entire community including doctors, therapists, high school principals and counselors along with the friends and families of addicts.

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Cathy K

22527 Crenshaw Blvd #200B
Torrance, CA  90505

(800) 477-6291

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Yoga of Recovery Certificate Course for Counselors

Yoga of Recovery is the first comprehensive course to combine Ayurveda and Yoga with traditional recovery tools to offer a more holistic mind, body, spirit approach to addiction and self-destructive behaviors.

1/23/2009 10:00 AM to 2/1/2009 12:00 AM

Holistic training focusing on recovery from all addictions

Location: Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas

Jan 23 - Feb 1, 2009 (arrive Jan 22, leave Feb 2, 11 nights)
(accommodation ($59-$89 per night)

Web: www.sivanandabahamas.org
Email: Nassau@sivananda.org
Phone: 1-866-446-5934 or 242-363-2902

PROGRAM INCLUDES:
Hatha Yoga:
Course students will practice hatha yoga 2 hours per day, the class will be suitable for all levels. This course does not qualify you as a hatha yoga teacher, it simply brings you to the awareness and experience of its benefits, within the context of the wider framework of yogic psychology and philosophy and the healing aspects of Ayurveda.

Ayurveda workshops:
-Causes of disease from the Ayurvedic perspective and its relation to addiction.
-Addictive tendencies of each doshic type and their underlying needs and vulnerabilities.
-Likely damage caused and some simple suggestions for balance.
-Simple, practical methods to revitalize the body's systems and boost the immune system such as proper daily and seasonal routines.
-How to be 'established in the self' - the best way to strengthen ongoing recovery.
- Ayurvedic nutrition.
-Seasonal and lifestyle suggestions.
- Simple yet essential detoxification practices.
-Counseling practices most useful for each type.


Tools of Recovery workshops:
Become able to correlate and discuss the many similarities between the foundations of Classical Yoga and those of the 12 Step Programs. This course expands your awareness and understanding of the 4 Paths of Yoga and how these spiritual practices can be integrated with the tools of 12 Step Programs.

Open 12-step meetings:
Many people who work in the field of recovery are themselves in recovery. Here we talk about our experience, strength and hope around any addictive habits that we are recovering from. This helps us develop more openness and compassion around both our own lingering compulsions and the struggle of different 'drug of choice' than ours. These meetings will also be a very beneficial experience for those not in recovery, to see what meetings are like, what their clients are involved with.

Teachers
This course is co-facilitated by Swami Sitaramananda and Durga.

Swami Sitaramananda is a gifted speaker and teacher of Yoga and Meditation, serving for more than twenty-five years in the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Ashrams & Centers. Swami Sitaramananda's great experience of the intricacy of spiritual life, her vedic knowledge and her love of spiritual seekers have made her an able spiritual teacher.

She is an internationally respected teacher who presents the intricate yoga philosophy and practice in a simple, down to earth and humorous manner. She is an expert in teaching Positive thinking and how to deal with the mind and the emotions.

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This course is for therapists, social workers, addiction counselors, sponsors, yoga teachers, Ayurvedic practitioners etc. Anyone interested in a more holistic and complete view of the problem and its solution. Bringing the west (12 Steps) and the East (Yoga and Ayurveda) together offers us a truly empowering approach to counseling those who embark on a program of recovery. It is the evolution of the solution.

Upon completion of the course you will have the skills to introduce the healing potential of the holistic sciences of Ayurveda and Yoga into your own life and those around you.

For those in counseling roles the course will offer you additional tools and a deeper understanding of the comprehensive approach to wellness, emotional sobriety and sustained spiritual development using Ayurveda and Yoga as extension therapies to any 12 Step work. If you are already a Yoga teacher, this course will make you uniquely qualified and more confident to teach yoga in rehabs or to people in recovery from any addiction. You will fully understand the root of the problem and the holistic approach, extended from limited understanding of substance abuse/behavioral problems to be treated with asana alone, to a full range of therapies for mind, body and spirit from these powerful healing modalities.

reception or  any staff member

Yoga Retreat
Paradise Island,   00108

242-363-2902

Durga 

242-363-2902

http://www.yogaofrecovery.com

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Yoga of Recovery Weekend Workshops

Integrate the wisdom of Yoga and Ayurveda with the tools of 12-Step Recovery.

2/27/2009 12:00 PM to 3/1/2009 12:00 AM

Weekend Workshops

Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center, Marina Del Ray, Los Angeles, CA

13325 Beach Ave, Marina Del Ray, CA 90292
Tel: 310 822 9642
www.sivananda.org/la/
losangeles@sivananda.org

Friday February 27, 2009:
7-8.30pm,
Free Introductory Talk: Yoga and Ayurveda and 12 step: The integrated treatment of addiction and self destructive behaviors in the 21st century

Saturday, February 28, 2009:
10.30am Yoga Asana class
12-2pm Life is Sweet (the roots of our addictive behaviors)
2.30-4.30pm Ayurveda: The Addictive Tendencies of the Doshas
5-7pm Addiction's energetic movement ? down and out

Cost: $75 for the day including one asana class or $25 per YoR session

Sunday, March 1, 2009:
10.30am or 5pm Yoga Asana class

12-2pm Balancing the doshas
2.30-4.30pm Ayurvedic nutrition ? an uplifting diet to support recovery

Cost: $50 for the day including one asana class or $25 per YoR session

Full weekend rate $120
Advance Booking/member rate for full weekend, booked and paid before 02.14.09 - $108 (includes all YoR workshops and one yoga class per day)

Individual Consultations Monday - Wednesday, March 2-5, 2009 by appointment.

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Open to all who are looking to overcome self-destructive or addictive tendencies or those affected by addictions in others.

reception or  any staff member

13325 Beach Ave
Marina Del Ray, CA  90292

(310) 822-9642

Durga 

http://www.yogaofrecovery.com

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Yoga of Recovery Certificate Course for Counselors

Yoga of Recovery is the first comprehensive course to combine Ayurveda and Yoga with traditional recovery tools to offer a more holistic mind, body, spirit approach to addiction and self-destructive behaviors.

7/30/2009 8:00 AM to 8/9/2009 12:00 AM

Holistic training focusing on recovery from all addictions

Grass Valley, California, USA
(accommodations $50-$85 per night)

Web: sivananda.org/yogafarm
Email: yogafarm@sivananda.org
Phone: 800-469-9642 or 530-272-9322

PROGRAM INCLUDES:
Hatha Yoga:
Course students will practice hatha yoga 2 hours per day, the class will be suitable for all levels. This course does not qualify you as a hatha yoga teacher, it simply brings you to the awareness and experience of its benefits, within the context of the wider framework of yogic psychology and philosophy and the healing aspects of Ayurveda.

Ayurveda workshops:
-Causes of disease from the Ayurvedic perspective and its relation to addiction.
-Addictive tendencies of each doshic type and their underlying needs and vulnerabilities.
-Likely damage caused and some simple suggestions for balance.
-Simple, practical methods to revitalize the body?s systems and boost the immune system such as proper daily and seasonal routines.
-How to be 'established in the self' -the best way to strengthen ongoing recovery.
-Ayurvedic nutrition.
-Seasonal and lifestyle suggestions.
-Simple yet essential detoxification practices.
-Counseling practices most useful for each type.


Tools of Recovery workshops:
Become able to correlate and discuss the many similarities between the foundations of Classical Yoga and those of the 12 Step Programs. This course expands your awareness and understanding of the 4 Paths of Yoga and how these spiritual practices can be integrated with the tools of 12 Step Programs.

Open 12-step meetings:
Many people who work in the field of recovery are themselves in recovery. Here we talk about our experience, strength and hope around any addictive habits that we are recovering from. This helps us develop more openness and compassion around both our own lingering compulsions and the struggle of different 'drug of choice' than ours. These meetings will also be a very beneficial experience for those not in recovery, to see what meetings are like, what their clients are involved with.

Durga has been involved with the 12 Step Fellowship for over 9 years and has developed Yoga of Recovery and led retreats internationally since then. She is a RYT-500, having completed both the Sivananda Yoga teachers Training Course and the Advanced Yoga Training. She is also extensively trained in Meditation and Vedanta.
Durga is a Clinical Ayurvedic and Pancha Karma Specialist, trained at the California College of Ayurveda and also in Kerala, India. She is the Director of the Ayurveda Programs at the Yoga Farm in California and leads several Ayurvedic Retreats at International Sivananda Yoga Ashrams.

"Durga brings a profound understanding of the psychological issues associated with addiction and recovery to her knowledge of the powerful healing traditions of Yoga and Ayurveda in her retreats and teaching. A recovery retreat led by Durga initiates and supports the process of deep inner work to create lasting change. Attending one of the Yoga, Ayurveda and Recovery Retreats is a personal gift that can last a lifetime."

Felicia M. Tomasko
Editor, LA YOGA Ayurveda and Health magazine
Board member, National Ayurvedic Medical Association
Boardmember, California Association of Ayurvedic Medicine

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This course is for therapists, social workers, addiction counselors, sponsors, yoga teachers, Ayurvedic practitioners etc. Anyone interested in a more holistic and complete view of the problem and its solution. Bringing the west (12 Steps) and the East (Yoga and Ayurveda) together offers us a truly empowering approach to counseling those who embark on a program of recovery. It is the evolution of the solution.

Upon completion of the course you will have the skills to introduce the healing potential of the holistic sciences of Ayurveda and Yoga into your own life and those around you.

For those in counseling roles the course will offer you additional tools and a deeper understanding of the comprehensive approach to wellness, emotional sobriety and sustained spiritual development using Ayurveda and Yoga as extension therapies to any 12 Step work. If you are already a Yoga teacher, this course will make you uniquely qualified and more confident to teach yoga in rehabs or to people in recovery from any addiction. You will fully understand the root of the problem and the holistic approach, extended from limited understanding of substance abuse/behavioral problems to be treated with asana alone, to a full range of therapies for mind, body and spirit from these powerful healing modalities.

reception or  any staff member

Yoga Farm
Grass Valley, CA  95949

530-272-9322

Durga or any staff member

800-469-9642

http://www.yogaofrecovery.com

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Yoga of Recovery 5-day Retreat

For those familiar with any 12-Step Program, the most remarkable aspect of these is the fact that only the first of the twelve steps makes any mention of the addictive substance or act. Sobriety/abstinence is described as a ?daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition?. Our opportunity for genuine spiritual fulfillment is strengthened when we weave together the ancient wisdom of Yoga and Ayurveda with the practical tools of recovery programs. Together they offer us a truly empowering personal program of recovery. 12-Step Programs also recommend an ?occasional retreat from the outside world where we can quiet down for an undisturbed day or so of self-overhaul and meditation?. Yoga of Recovery offers retreats in beautiful, peaceful locations where you can relax, recover, and rejuvenate.

8/9/2009 8:01 PM to 8/14/2009 12:00 AM

5-day retreat

Web: yogafarm.org
Email: yogafarm@sivananda.org
Phone: 800-469-9642 or 530-272-9322

The Yoga Farm is located in the foothills of California's Sierra Mountains, situated in the heart of California's Mother Lode Country. It is surrounded by rolling hills, forests of oak and pine, and clear streams. Here are 70 acres of secluded peace and solitude, where the sounds of nature soothe the mind and body - ideal for yoga retreats and meditation.
In spring and summer yoga classes are held on the outdoor deck shaded by a grove of oak trees. You can take a meditative walk in our Peace Miracle Labyrinth; casual, contemplative walks around the beautiful 40 acres, and the adjacent 30 acres or hike the 108 steps to Siva hill. A cedar sauna is open year round.

Pleasant, simple lodging in dorms, double occupancy rooms or cabins. Our cabins are set on the hillside overlooking the pond and surrounded by the natural beauty of the ashram, providing total peace and tranq

The Yoga of Recovery retreat brings together three powerful healing modalities - Yoga, Ayurveda and 12-Step Recovery. This is the first and only retreat that offers this powerful combination. It is "the evolution of the solution".

Typical Daily Schedule includes?

* Meditation;
* Yoga Asana & Pranayama Class for all levels, ending with Conscious Relaxation session;
* Ayurveda workshops;
* Open 12-Step Meetings;
* Tools of Recovery Workshops - introduces Positive Thinking techniques, the mind and how it works and Meditation training.
* Vegetarian Meals;
* Ayurvedic Consultations and Ayurvedic body treatments are also available. Book early to ensure availability of therapists.

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Open to all who are looking to overcome self-destructive or addictive tendencies and those affected by addictions of others.

reception or  any staff member

Yoga Farm
Grass Valley, CA  95949

530-272-9322

Durga or any staff member

800-469-9642

http://www.yogaofrecovery.com

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RecoveryFest '09 (San Jose, CA)

Bring the Recovery Community Together for a fun day in the Sun.

9/19/2009 12:00 AM to 9/19/2009 5:00 PM

Picnic

Vasona Lake County Park
333 Blossom Hill Rd, Los Gatos, CA 95032

TBA

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The Recovery Community

Karl Sitterle

16845 Hicks Road
Los Gatos, CA  95124

(408) 202-1946

Judy  Birmingham

16845 Hicks Road
Los Gatos CA  95032

(408) 771-6714