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    SOAR: Teaching Yoga to Those in Recovery
    SOAR: Teaching Yoga to Those in Recovery
    SOAR: Teaching Yoga to Those in Recovery
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    SOAR: Teaching Yoga to Those in Recovery

    By Kyczy Hawk

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    A comprehensive guide for yoga teachers who wish to teach in recovery and treatment centers and to present addiction recovery infused classes in studios. This book gives outlines and methods for teaching, educates the reader about some concerns in addressing trauma, and provides tools to enhace relapse prevention. Many resources and references are included. Useful information about designing and marketing classes and workshops help the yoga teacher makes create vital offerings.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKyczy Hawk
    Release dateAug 23, 2012
    ISBN9781476421001
    SOAR: Teaching Yoga to Those in Recovery
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    Kyczy Hawk

    I am a person in recovery and yoga teacher. I teach people in recovery in various venues - from jails to studios. I present workshops on various subjects relating to yoga and recovery, lead S.O.A.R.TM teacher certification courses and work closely with Nikki Myers, 500 ERYT and the Yoga of 12 Step Recovery trainings and classes. I have a great family life and stay close to my recovery principles. I used to work in accounting, most recently in industry, and I was able to bring my yoga and recovery to my daily life there as well.

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      SOAR - Kyczy Hawk

      SOAR

      SUCCESS OVER ADDICTION AND RELAPSE

      TEACHING YOGA FOR RECOVERY

      AND RELAPSE PREVENTION (revised)

      By KYCZY HAWK

      AUTHOR OF YOGA AND THE TWELVE STEP PATH

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2012 by Kyczy Hawk

      All Rights Reserved.

      Introduction

      This manual serves as guidance for yoga instructors, those who are teaching people recovering from addictions.

      From the author of Yoga and The Twelve Step Path

      This book in not a pose guide. This book is not an initial yoga teacher training. It is not a guide on how to recover from addictions. This book is a guide for those who want to bring yoga to people recovering from addictions. There are a multitude of recovery situations, of stages in recovery, and needs of the students. This guide is an invitation to investigate these with a compassionate heart and a generous spirit.

      Addictions have many forms and causes. There are addictive behaviors of excess and the more rare forms of the addictive behaviors of renunciation. There is anorexia and isolation, there is sex/love addiction, and addictions such gambling and drugs /alcoholism as well as codependency. One thing they all have in common is the disassociation of the body, mind and spirit from itself and from other beings that occurs. Addiction is a disease of separation. Yoga is a practice of integration. It is a holistic answer to a holistic disease. Many students — those in recovery, those seeking recovery, and those who do not yet know if they need help in that area— find peace on the mat. The breath, the physical activity, and the knitting together of the effort and ease in final relaxation are immensely soothing. Some know how to bring this into the rest of their day, off the mat, and others come to the mat as the single place where this can be found. A yoga teacher can often guide the latter student to become the former. The challenge in this journey from mat to life can be great when destructive behaviors and substances are involved. An informed and compassionate guide can ease this transition.

      Addiction also comes with an un-invited guest: relapse. Most people in recovery have had this interloper come calling. Some have invited him in; others have had him come crashing through their gates of resistance. Having as many tools as possible is crucial. Having tools of self-awareness to avoid getting into a fragile state is even more important. Yoga and the benefits of a practice, understanding the tenets and having a community can help build defenses so that potential relapse can be held at bay. Yoga can give one skills to recognize imbalances in the body, mind and spirit. Coupled with a regular 12 Step program these can be powerful remedies to a potentially fatal disease.

      In the process described in this book we will be employing Raja yoga. Raja yoga is the eight-limbed path of yoga that is designed to quiet the mind. The eight limbs are the yamas (restraints), the niyamas (observances), hatha (physical practice), pranayama (breath practice), pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses), dharana (concentration), dhyana, (meditation), and samadhi (blissful awareness, super consciousness). There are several ways to approach the integration of the philosophies of yoga and recovery in the yoga room. One can start with the steps of recovery and relate the focus, the underlying teaching, of each step to similar concepts from the Raja yoga tradition. One can start with the limbs of Raja yoga and knit this together with the lessons and suggestions from the conference approved recovery literature. And one can dance and flow between the two. Finding an approach that is most appropriate for each setting is key. Each approach will be outlined in this book with examples and with student feedback. Being well grounded in a program of recovery as well as being comfortable with both teaching and understanding Raja yoga will enhance a teacher’s competence on the mat, in the circle of the students.

      Many students who come to the mat have additional issues that they are dealing with outside of addiction recovery. There may be emotional /mental challenges. These take care and compassion but cannot be addressed directly by the yoga teacher. A student may have experienced trauma, in fact most of us have. It is the degree to which the trauma is still active in the body that we must be sensitive. There are several ways that trauma occurs: developmentally (over the course of time – no single causative factor), from an accident, or from some type of abuse among other causes. It matter not how the trauma has occurred; the effects are often locked in knotted muscles and can be experienced as trapped energy in the body. In addition to physical tightness or restriction of motion, there can be an increased number of life sensitivities and situational triggers. The yoga teacher must be aware of and sensitive to these situations. A chapter in this book is devoted to this subject. Being clear that we are not therapists, and few of us will teach in a class that is trauma identified (meaning that we are teaching specifically to those who are coming to the mat to deal with trauma directly) mindfulness is the key word. There are those who do have certifications: training and internships that prepare them for this fragile group. This book is not such a program. We deal with the general population here. The chapter dealing with trauma has several tools and resources to address the majority of situations with which one will be faced.

      Getting your own house in order: it cannot be stressed enough. One’s personal journey and challenges need to be addressed before stepping onto the teacher’s mat. This does not mean that we don’t change and grow; it means that we have come to a place of peace and stability within ourselves. We have a support system and are able to care for ourselves. The students do not play a part in our self-care. We can derive satisfaction and great pleasure from teaching; but that is a by-product of the service, not the reason for it. The best classes come when the ego is checked at the door. Hopefully this can be done more often than not. Compassion and love for our true selves can help this become true. We will explore assumptions and expectations, hopes and intentions in a chapter on taking care of the teacher.

      Finding a class or how to put yourself out there. A chapter will be devoted to how classes can be formed and how opportunities can be found. It can be daunting to find your mission, your

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