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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"Things my mother gave me" Art Exhibition

Recovery requires us to look at our past and reflect upon the feelings we have for those who most influenced us along the way. This show is dedicated to the "mothers" who changed our metaphorical diapers.

This is a open Call for Artists, Writers, Musicians and Poets in Recovery and people who
support our mission -- to submit work that honestly reflects who influences your life. Meghan C., is our guest currator (work must be submitted by 1.9.09, 5 pm).

2/6/2009 6:30 PM to 2/6/2009 9:00 PM

Public Opening & Reception (exhibition ends March 27)

Refuge: Center for Artists in Recovery
4811 Main St.
Skokie, IL 60077

Opening presentation by some of the artists, board presentation of mission, upcoming events and invitation to participate and, or volunteer. Appetizers and refreshments served.

Local state representatives, city officials, and area recovery institutions.

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Artists, family, friends, the Chicagoland art, recovery community and general public.

William Current

4811 Main Street
Skokie, IL  60077

847-673-3737

http://www.refuge.com

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Recovery in your Community

Keynote speaker, Phillip Valentine, Executive Director for the Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery, will provide an in-depth overview on the integration of recovering individuals in community mobilization efforts. Strategies will be provided on efforts recovering individuals may become involved in throughout the community, including building capacity within community-based coalitions to address substance abuse within youth and adult populations. A ? hour will be allotted from 11:30am-12:00pm for question/answer session with Mr. Valentine, for community-specific questions and strategies which may be prevalent for individuals attending this workshop.

2/26/2009 10:00 AM to 2/26/2009 2:00 PM

Workshop/ luncheon

Danville Area Community College
Bremer Theater
2000 E Main
Danville, IL 61834

Keynote Speaker: Phillip Valentine

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Betty  Seidel

718 Killarney
Urbana, IL  61802

217-693-3053

Sherri Rudicil

718 Killarney
Urbana IL  61802

217-693-3016

http://www.prairie-center.com

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Recovery Celebration

The Recovery Celebration is held each Septmber and focuses individuals in recovery and also celebrates each milestone on the journey of recovery. The important role that family and friends play in the recovery journey is also recognized.

The Recovery Celebration includes informational sessions, presenteres who speak on recovery topics and other activities.

9/10/2009 1:00 PM to 9/10/2009 7:30 PM

Open House

Sinnissippi Centers
325 Illinois Route 2
Dixon, IL 61021

TBA

TBA

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Those in recovery and the family members, friends and others who support them in their recovery process

Andrew Jackson

325 Illinois Route 2
Dixon, IL  61021

815-284-6611

http://www.sinnissippi.com