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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Call to Recovery - Radio Program KBJS 90.3 FM

Live call-in radio show to promote recovery through the understanding of addictions and personal testimony's...can be heard at www.kbjs.org, just click on listen live

3/21/2009 8:00 PM to 12/31/2009 9:00 PM

live call-in radio show

www.kbjs.org, kbjs 90.3 fm, 903-586-5257

live-call in radio show dealing with recovery from addictions, to offer help, hope, and a way out...every Saturday night from 8-9pm CST...new time slot beginning 4/4/09...will be 7-8 pm CST

Hosted by Dan Hosch, licensed by the state of Texas as a Chemical Dependency Counselor (over 19 years in the field) and clean and sober date 9/8/89

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all interested in addictions, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, and the resources to overcome them

Daniel Hosch

PO Box 501
Brownsboro, TX  75756

903-597-1351

http://www.kbjs.org

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South Dallas Community Walk for Recovery

My Second Chance, Inc, The LaSima Foundation and Welcome House, Inc. will host the first annual "South Dallas Walk for Recovery"'. There will be speakers, food, music, games for the children and grown ups and fun, fun, fun!

9/5/2009 7:00 AM to 9/5/2009 8:08 PM

Community Observance

Tenative location:
Glendale Park
1300 E. Ledbetter Dr

City Officals, Recovery and Treatment Community.

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Royce Adams

434 W. Kiest Blvd
Dallas, TX  75224

214-448-3106

Carolyn Williams

434 W. Kiest Blvd
Dallas TX  75224

214-374-1104

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2nd Annual Balloon Launch & Lunch

A balloon launch will take place at 11:30 am to remember those who have lost their struggle or are still struggling with addiction and to honor those in recovery.
People will be allowed to attach a persons name they want to remember or honor and a brief ceremony to remember & honor will be held prior to the balloon launch.

A lunch for invited professionals and officials will be held from 12-1 pm with an invited Keynote Speaker

9/8/2009 11:30 AM to 9/8/2009 1:00 PM

Lunch and Balloon Launch

Breckenridge Texas at the Texas State Technical College Campus

11:30 Balloon Launch Ceremony

12 - 1 pm Lunch with Keynote Speaker

Jim Keffer - State Representative
Craig Estes _ State Senator
Randy Naugebaur - Congressman
as well as many local officials

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Substance abuse professionals and the above officials as well as our CDC students

Laurie Eccleston

307 N Breckenridge Ave
Breckenridge, TX  76424

254-559-7720

http://laurie.eccleston@tstc.edu

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2nd Annual Balloon Launch & Lunch

Balloons will be launched to remember those struggling or who have lost their struggle with addiction and to honor those in recovery.

Names can be attached to the balloons in memory or in honor of and a brief ceremony will be held prior to the balloon launch to celebrate recovery

9/9/2009 11:30 AM to 9/9/2009 1:00 PM

Balloon Launch & Lunch

Texas State Technical College Brownwood Texas

11:30 am Balloon Launch Ceremony Celebrating Recovery
12 - 1pm Lunch with Keynote Speaker

Jim Keffer - state representative
Craig Estes - State Senator
Randy Naugebauer - Congressman
Other local officials

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All of the above as well as CDC students and other invited guests

Laurie Eccleston

307 N Breckenridge Ave
Breckenridge, TX  76424

254-559-7720

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3rd Annual 3K Recovery Walk SA & Family Fun Day

San Antonio Fighting Back, Inc., in collaboration with many of San Antonio's non-profit agencies, will join in hosting this 3rd annual walk event for prevention educators, treatment providers, clients, families, and interested individuals. The mission for the 3K Recovery Walk SA is to promote awareness of recovery initiatives and celebrate the achievements of all individuals in recovery. There will be a short program to kick off the event followed by the walk through the park. Participants will then return to the pavilion for a Texas style concert, barbeque lunch, and community resource fair. Participants are encouraged to bring family, friends, and pets. Some of the collaborating partners include; San Antonio Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, B.E.A.T. AIDS, The Patrician Movement, Palmer Drug Abuse Program, Center for Healthcare Services, and many others.
Participation in the walk is FREE and open to the public.
Online registration begins in July at www.safb.org

9/12/2009 9:00 AM to 9/12/2009 1:30 PM

3K Walk and Family Picnic

Historic Brackenridge Park (Koehler Pavilion)

9:00 AM... Onsite Registration and Pre Registered Check In opens
10:00 AM... Opening program begins in the pavilion.
10:30 AM... 3K Walk through the park
11:30 AM... Lunch served - DJ takes stage-local youth entertainment
12:00 PM Guest Speakers
12:30 PM Tejano performance by International Recording Artist Patsy Torres
2:00 The Clean Up!
(Door prizes drawings throughout the day.)

Invited;
SAMHSA Senior Policy Advisor Beverly Watts-Davis
Texas State Representative Ruth Jones McClendon
San Antonio City Council Members
Former NFL Super Bowl I and IV player and Chairman of the Board for San Antonio Fighting Back, Inc. Willie Mitchell

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All collaborating agencies staff and clients/consumers, individuals and families experiencing recovery, and general public.

Cleo Garcia

2803 E. Commerce
San Antonio, TX  78203

210-271-7232

Boyd Baxter

2803 E. Commerce
San Antoni TX  78203

210-271-7232

http://www.safb.org