Recovery Month Community Events

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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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Recovery Messaging Training

Join us on Thursday March 5th in Kentucky or Thursday March 19th in Indiana, to take part in an exciting training on recovery messaging, conducted by Mike Barry, President of People Advocating Recovery, Kentucky.

This training has been developed by Faces & Voices of Recovery and is the result of in-depth public opinion research with members of the recovery community and the general public. Mike Barry, Faces & Voices Representative and our trainer for the event, will share with you effective language that you can use to talk with the public and policy makers about recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs, as well as introduce public policy issues affecting those in treatment and recovery in the greater Cincinnati region.

Sponsored by organizations from all over the region, you are invited to attend a training to conduct recovery messaging for those in recovery from alcohol or other drug addiction, their families, friends and others who are interest. The training offers an effective means of supporting recovery and working together to change local, state and national policies that restrict access to recovery and remove barriers to sustained recovery.

3/19/2009 1:00 PM to 3/19/2009 4:00 PM

Communication/Messaging Training

Agner Hall
Lawrenceburg Fairgrounds
1 Speedway Drive
Lawrenceburg, IN 47025

Mike Barry, President
People Advocating Recovery, Kentucky

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People in recovery and their families and friends

Jeff Stewart

2330 Victory Parkway
Cincinnati, OH  45206

513-490-1858

http://recovery.drugfreecincinnati.org

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Additions in the Congregation? The Role of Faith & Community in Recovery

NAMI FaithCEP's 8th Annual Mending the Mind & Minding the Soul Mental Health Education Conference*

Addictions in the Congregation? The Role of Faith and Community in Recovery --

Dr. David Holling's presentations, Addictions in the Congregation? will help participants understand:
o The meaning, scope, and key elements of addictive behavior
o Spiritual dimensions of addiction, how faith, religion and faith communities help in recovery and prevention
o Practical ways to assist the addict, his/her family, and the community

Dr. Joan Lafuze's seminar, Understanding the Biology of Addictions: Smoothing the Road to Recovery, will help attendees be able to
o identify the areas of the brain associated with addiction.
o explain the influence of genetic factors in addiction
o discuss the vulnerability of adolescents to addictions

No charge for conference but pre- registration is required; lunch included
CEU contact hours: 6

4/27/2009 9:00 AM to 4/27/2009 4:00 PM

Conference

Christian Theological Seminary, Shelton Auditorium
1000 W. 42nd St., Indianapolis, Indiana

8:30-9:00 - Check in, coffee and Exhibitors
9:00 - 9:15 - Welcome, Announcements
9:15 - 10:30 - Dr. David Holling - Part I -
10:30 - 10:50 - Break, coffee & Exhibitors
10:50 - 12:00 - Dr. David Holling - Part II-
12:00- 1:00 - Lunch, Exhibitors
1:00 - 2:15 - Joan Lafuze - The Brain Biology of Addiction
2:15 - 2:35 - Break, & Exhibitors
2:35 - 3:45 - Resource Panel (agencies that provide recovery programs & counseling) with Q&A
3:45 - 4:00 - Wrap Up

David Holling, M.Div., M.S., Ph.D. with Pastoral Counseling Certification in Faith & Addictions

Dr. Joan Esterline Lafuze, M.S. Ph.D. with specialty in the brain biology of addictions

Exhibitors and Panel will include Providers of Addictions Treatment and Recovery Programs in Indianapolis

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For Clergy & Congregational Leaders of all Faith Traditions; other caregivers and interested parties welcome.

Carole Wills

8940 Dandy Creek Drive
Indianapolis, IN  46234

317-299-4570

Lynnette  Lewis

PO Box 40866
Indianapol IN  46240

317-257-7517

http://www.namiindy.org