Recovery Month Community Events

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Yoga of Recovery 7-day Retreat in the Bahamas

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.

1/16/2009 11:00 AM to 1/22/2009 9:00 PM

7-day retreat in Nassau, Bahamas

7-day retreat $450 plus accommodation, Ayurvedic Consultation and Body Treatment available for additional fee. Book early to ensure availability of therapists.

The Retreat is built around a semi-closed outdoor meditation temple. There are spacious exercise platforms facing the warm blue green water of the Caribbean. Swaying palms provide you with shade and shelter. You can stay in one of our cozy wooden cabins, or if you prefer, you may pitch a tent in the quiet coconut grove. Here is the perfect environment for you to enjoy the warm companionship of like-minded people from around the world.

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

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 the addictions of others.

reception or  any staff member

Yoga Retreat
Paradise Island, FL  00108

242-363-2902

Durga 

242-363-2902

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.

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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CENTRAL FLORIDA CHRISTIAN RALLY

Church and Community gathering making an announcement of essay winner for the CMTN Community Youth Award.and there will be groups performing,speakers,dancers other activities happening at this event.

7/10/2009 6:00 PM to 7/10/2009 9:00 PM

Youth Event

peggy center
1101 North Atlantic Avenue
Daytona Beach, Florida

celebration: Central Florida Community Youth Leadership Month.

please contact about invitatation

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contact cmtn

Sammy  Jackson

P.O. Box 10782
Daytona Beach, FL  32120

386-257-6784

http://www.christiansmergingtogether.org

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The "Silent Epidemic"

Prescription drug abuse is a significant problem in the
United States, and has been coined the Silent Epidemic.
This activity is focusing on this implicit issue.

9/12/2009 7:30 AM to 9/12/2009 4:40 PM

Conference (Continuing Medical Education-CME)

Vince Carter Sanctuary
301 Justice Lane
Bunnell, FL 32110
www.vincecartersanctuary.org/

7:30-8:15 am-Registration
8:15-8:25 am-Introduction
8:25-9:05 am-Neurobiology of Addiction
9:05-9:50 am-Pain Management for the Addict
9:50-10:05 am-Break
10:05-10:50 am-Risk Management Strategies When Utilizing Controlled Substances for the Treatment of Chronic Pain
10:50-11:35 am-Treatment Options for Opiate Dependence
11:35 am-Noon-Panel Discussion-Audience Question and Answers
12:15-1:00 pm-Lunch
1:00-1:45-Psychiatric Comorbidities of Addiction and Chronic Pain
1:45-2:30 pm-Silent Epidemic- Prescription Drug Abuse
2:30-2:45 pm-Break
2:45-3:30 pm-New Abuse Deterrent Formulations for the Treatment of Pain
3:30-4:15 pm-Non-Opiate Techniques of Pain Management
4:15-4:40 pm-Panel-Audience Question and Answers
4:40pm-Activity Concludes

Sanford M. Sliverman-Conference Chair

Speakers:
Douglas J. Davies, MD-invited
Brenton Thrasher, MD-invited
Lora L. Brown, MD, DABIPP
Sanford M. Silverman, MD
Tom Antonek, PhD-invited

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Target Audience: Physicians of all specialties (Primary Care, Neurologists, Psychiatrists, Pain Management); Nurses (RN, LPN, Case Mangers); Mental Health Professionals (Psychologists, Psychotherapists, LHMC); Legal Professionals (Attorneys, Judges)

Linda S.  Knapp

301 Justice Lane
Bunnell, FL  32110

386-675-6750

Gloria Canaan

301 Justice Lane
Bunnell FL  32110

386-675-6750

http://floridarecoverymonth.com/

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We have a reason to sing

9/18/09 Recovery March to the State Capitol Building. Speakers, Songs and Recovery Testimonies
9/19/09 2nd annual Recovery Gospel Fest

9/18/2009 8:30 AM to 9/19/2009 2:30 PM

March and Music Fest

9/18/09 March from KC Steel Bus Terminal to the Capitol Building

9/19/09 Christian Heritage Church

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Cassie  Hammock

808 W Brevard Street
Tallahassee, FL  32304

(850) 222-5151

Charles  Roberts

808 W Brevard Street
Tallahasse FL  32304

(850) 222-5151

http://Frenchtown Outreac.org

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KKDF September Recovery Month

Offering free health screenings, information from various vendors. Concessions, live entertainment, Ride For Recovery motorcycle Run.
Shine & Show motorcycle contest. Art exhibit.

9/19/2009 10:00 AM to 9/19/2009 5:00 PM

Public Celebration/Health Fair

Metro Park
Jacksonville, Florida

In the planning stages

Mayor John Peyton
Director Bill Janes, Office of Drug Control

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Freda  Colley

555 Stockton St.
Jacksonville, FL  32204

904-493-5423

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RIDE FOR RECOVERY

Ride will begin at Destination Daytona with stops along the way for raffles, prizes and lunch, ending at the Band Shell in Daytona Beach.

(No alcohol will be served since we are "Celebrating Recovery for Addictions")

Join us after the "Ride for Recovery" for entertainment, line dancing and more can be expected at the Daytona Band Shell

9/26/2009 1:00 PM to 9/26/2009 5:00 PM

Motorcycle Ride

Destination Daytona,
1637 North US Highway 1
Ormond Beach, Florida

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Vicki Kress

1220 Willis Avenue
Daytona Beach, FL  32114

(386) 236-3200

http://www.floridarecoverymonth.com/