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 - Faces & Voices of Recovery and the National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACoA) are national organizations that support and give hope to individuals, children and families across the country who are struggling with the impact of addiction to alcohol and other drugs, and to those who know the reality of long-term recovery.

Both organizations are working to broaden public understanding of how addiction and recovery affect children, families and our communities. They are promoting effective public policy at the national, state, and local levels; advancing professional knowledge; educating the public that prevention and recovery support services can and do work; and demonstrating the promise and reality of recovery.

This year Faces & Voices of Recovery and the National Association for Children of Alcoholics are partnering for the 34th Marine Corps Marathon to raise public awareness and celebrate and honor recovery in all its diversity. Join us ? make the commitment to get fit and have fun while speaking for the families who need a voice.

10/25/2009 7:00 AM to 10/25/2009 6:00 PM

Running for a cause

The Marine Corps Marathon has a wonderful race route throughout the Washington, DC area around the mall and past many monuments ending at the Iwo Jima Memorial. There is a gathering tent before going to the race corals and a post race finish party!

Run for Recovery, Run for the Children is an approved charity and we have 50 registration slots for the Marine Corps Marathon.

Marathon Charity Partners will be providing our training program starting May 9, 2009 until race day October 25, 2009.

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Anyone interested in getting fit, meeting new people and running for a cause.

Jackie  Endicott

11426 Rockville Pike, suite 301
Rockville, MD  20852

301-468-0985

Dannie Greenberg

1010 Vermont Ave., #708
Washington DC  20005

202-737-0695

http://www.nacoa.org/r4rr4c_home.html