Kripalu Yoga for Recovery | Kripalu Yoga, Sivananda Yoga, and Nia classes and private lessons in Knoxville, TN
Yoga, and Kripalu Yoga in particular, offers an arsenal of tools for the recovering addict and alcoholic.
Yoga stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system, allowing the body to relax and find more creative solutions to problems than you can while drinking coffee and talking or thinking negatively about yourself.
In yoga, we learn to practice ahimsa — non-violence — including abstention from violence in thought, word and deed against oneself.
Yoga allows the release of trapped emotion and shame through the movement of life energy (called prana in yoga), so change can be visceral and lasting.
Not only that, but through different yoga poses we can target parts of the body particularly stressed from drinking/using, like the liver, pituitary, pineal gland, colon, and so on.
Yoga can be very helpful in healing the physical, energetic, and emotional body, allowing true transformation to occur in your recovery from alcoholism and/or drug addiction.
Though the fundamental philosophies behind yoga and the 12 steps differ to a certain degree, the fact of the matter is that yoga can play a major positive role in your recovery. The self-awareness fostered through 12 step programs becomes self-transcendence through yoga, allowing real and lasting change to occur in any area of your life.
When and Where: Please see the schedule for times and locations.
Wear: Clothes to move in.
Bring: A yoga mat or a large beach towel (required); a water bottle, props like a strap, block, bolster, and blanket (all optional).
Cost: Depends on location.
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Note: This class is not currently on the schedule.
Please use the contact form to find out about private one-to-one Yoga for Recovery instruction or to find out how to bring this class to your church or organization.
