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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Run for Recovery, Run for the Children

Run for Recovery, Run for the Children
Invites you to join us and learn more about participating in the Marine Corps Marathon - October 25, 2009
at the
Marathon Charity Partner 2009 Orientation
Saturday, May 2, 2009
From 12 to 6 pm

5/2/2009 12:00 PM to 5/2/2009 6:00 PM

Marine Corps Marathon Training Orientation

Marriot Courtyard
2700 Eisenhower Avenue
Alexandria, Virginia

In the hallway leading to Washington Room, from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM Run for Recovery, Run for the Children will have a presentation table with materials about the two charities and details on running for their cause.

Join the Fun, Run for a Reason!

Schedule for the Day:
Washington Room - MCP 2009 Orientation

12:00 PM AID Marathon Fundraising Program Info Session
1:00 PM MCP Training Program Orientation Session
2:00 PM Nick Panebianco - Fundraising for Charity Trainees
2:30 PM Ben Cooke, Buying Your First Pair of Running Shoes
3:00 PM MCP Training Program Orientation Session
4:00 PM Walt Cline, Active Dynamic Warm-up
4:30 PM John Steitz, Hydration for Marathon Training
5:00 PM MCP Training Program Orientation Session

Courtyard Cafe - PRRM College of Running

2:00 PM - Intro/Welcome - J. Steitz
2:05 PM - Ben Cooke, New Trends in Running Shoes
2:30 PM - John Steitz, Hydration for Race Day Performance
3:15 PM - Walt Cline, Active Dynamic Warm-up
4:00 PM - Dr. Bernard Etherly, Footstrike and Injury Prevention

Marathon Charity Partners

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Anyone interested in running a marathon for a cause or volunteering to help Run for Recovery, Run for the Children's team reach the finish line.

Jackie Endicott

11426 Rockville Pike, Suite 301
Rockville, MD  20852

301-468-0985

http://www.nacoa.org/partners.html

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Recovery Fest

Annual music/family picnic and recovery informational display. Thousands of recovery people and their family, and friends attend. Over 30 recovery providers present. Free and open to public.

9/12/2009 12:00 PM to 9/12/2009 6:00 PM

State wide marketed

Mount Vernon Baptist Church 11220 Nuckols Road, Richmond, VA 23059

Several bands and speakers. Cook out all day. Plenty of children activities.

We always invite the entire Virginia State, Federal and local delegations.

3000

statewide Recovery community, statewide and national recovery provider, general population.

John Shinholser

2300 Dumbarton rd.
Richmond, VA  23228

804-249-1845

Daniel  Payne

2300 Dumbarton rd.
Richmond VA  23228

804-249-1845

http://www.mcshin.org