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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Joel Hernandez Walk for Recovery

The first annual Joel Hernandez (1941-2006) Walk for Recovery takes place in Tucson, Arizona on May 30, 2009. This walk is to help raise awareness for those who are rehabilitated from alcohol and/or drug abuse. In Joel?s fight for recovery, he witnessed on behalf of faith in Christ and treatment centers to the U.S. Supreme Court that one can overcome the disease of addiction and fight for a place back into society. This walk honors those who are recovered and who are determined to become an active member in our nation?s workforce.

All proceeds of the walk will go to Faces & Voices of Recovery. Faces & Voices of Recovery is a national 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to organizing and mobilizing the millions of Americans in long-term recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs, our families, friends, and allies to speak with one voice. The organization is working to change public perceptions of recovery, promote effective public policy in Washington, D.C. and in all 50 states, and demonstrate that recovery is working for millions of Americans.

5/30/2009 9:00 AM to 5/30/2009 11:30 AM

Walk for Recovery

Tucson, Arizona at Gene C. Reid Park. Start at Ramada 6.

Begin with a Welcome; summary of Joel's advocacy; and overview of future walks.

Sponsored by Women in New Recovery WINR

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Stefanie Gamez

1101 W Longhorn Dr
Chandler, AZ  85286

480-221-3550

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2009 Walk and Rally For Recovery

A day of celebrating Recovery! Food, fun, booths of information & resources, speakers, alumni appreciation and a walk to honor Recovery Month.

9/12/2009 12:00 PM to 9/12/2009 4:00 PM

860 North Center
Mesa, Az 85201

Tentative 12pm beginning of event 12:15-12:25 opening welcome, Patricia Henderson, Founder, Executive Director, Women In New Recovery 12:30-12:35 Proclamation Reading 12:35-1:30 Speaker 1:35-1:45 Line up for walk 1:45-2:30 Recovery Walk 2:35-4:00 Appreciation Awards, Closing

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Shawna Nelson

860 North Center
Mesa, AZ  85201

480-464-5764

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5th Annual Art of Recovery Expo-Phoenix

The 5th Annual Art of Recovery Expo is a free to the public, offering education, resources and solutions for addiction recovery and mental illness. FREE WORKSHOPS, FREE ADMISSION

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

FREE EXPO- Open to Public

Phoenix Convention Center
100 N. 3rd Street
Phoenix Az HALL G
Corner of 3rd Street and Jefferson

Workshops begin at
10:30 to 5 pm
Keynote: 12:45 pm

Christopher Kennedy Lawford
Mayor Gordon
Governor Jan Brewer

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Open to anyone interested in learning about the hope addiction recovery offers. Together we inspire success on the road to recovery.

Barbara Nicholson-Brown

PO Box 5629
Scottsdale, AZ  85261

480-767-7880

Bill Brown

same as above
Scottsdale AZ  

602-315-7523

http://www.artofrecoveryexpo.com