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Yoga of Recovery – 12 week course

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Between the Mat and the Meeting
ONLINE — Jan 21 – Apr 8
This 12 week online course is about how Ayurveda can support our recovery journey.

Features:
– Prerecorded ‘lecture/teaching’ videos with the topic coming up for review and discussion in our

– Live zoom sessions: Thursdays 4-6pm PST from 1/21 to 4/8/21. You will be able to access the recordings of these if you are unable to attend live. 4/20.

– Live 12 step recovery – Saturdays 8am PST (ends 4/10/21) all fellowships together, open meeting (no teaching just sharing)

– Live Book Discussion (not 12 step, book TBD) – Tuesdays 2pm PST (from 1/26/21, ends 4/6/21)

– 6 months unlimited yoga classes on IYTV when you sign up here, via Integral Yoga San Francisco website!

Continuing Education Opportunities
Yoga Alliance – 50 hours
YACP Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider®
IAYT – 27 APD hours
Advanced Professional Development – International Association of Yoga Therapists; and
NAMA PACE – 50 hours
National Ayurvedic Medical Association – Professional Advanced Continuing Education

Embody health in recovery from all addictive disorders, (substances, food/sugar and behaviors) through Ayurveda, framed in the most accessible, relatable and practical way.  Address the needs and vulnerabilities that underlie these habits with pioneering look at our stress-response tendencies.  We’ll look at our ‘acting out’ tendencies, and how physical practices and daily routines can widen the window of tolerance.  We come to deeper self-understanding and self-regulation for resilience one day at a time.

Yoga of Recovery works with everyone whose lives have been affected by addiction, in themselves or loved ones – people who have sex addiction, eating disorders, codependents with no substance abuse, and others where substance abuse is present but it is not the primary presenting issue. The program is also open to anyone who wants to learn lifestyle and stress management skills.

Health and recovery from addiction and disease involve fully living in the wholeness that you are. By recognizing your innate strengths you can learn to revitalize your body’s systems rather than to depend on addictive, unhealthy behaviors. Build a strong foundation for living well, and learn about stress, digestion, sleep hygiene, and detoxification. Practice deep self-care and emotional regulation through simple Ayurvedic daily routines that you can practice at home.

The program is an integration of the philosophy and psychology of yoga and Ayurveda – offering many physical practices to allow us to embody our recovery pathway.

When you sign up through Integral Yoga San Francisco you’ll also receive 6 months unlimited yoga classes on IYTV.

Course Details:

YoR BMM 12 week online session consists of:

  1. Live zoom class once per week for 2 hours (Thursdays 4-6pm PST / 7-9pm EST; 1/21/21 – 4/8/21).  Here we review, discuss and share about the week’s class topic – with a Buddy check in and also group break out sessions and Q&A with me – slightly different each week.  This is recorded in case they’re not able to make the live session.

  2. Pre-recorded videos you can watch before we meet to review and discuss this topic in our live class (about 11 hours over the 12 weeks, released each week) and

  3. We have 2 YoR Recovery Meetings per week – one an open, all-fellowship 12 step meeting; the other will be a book study (non-12 step).  These are not recorded  – day/time TBA

Upon completion of this course you can submit to receive continuing education credits with 3 major Yoga certification organizations

  • Yoga Alliance – 50 hours — YACP Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider®

  • IAYT – 27 APD hours — Advanced Professional Development with the International Association of Yoga Therapists

  • NAMA PACE – 50 hours – National Ayurvedic Medical Association – Professional Advanced Continuing Education

Course Fee $1200

  • Offering 20% discount to those in need of financial assistance. Use code “discount”
  • Please email us if a scholarship rate is what is needed for you to join us:  durga@yogaofrecovery.com

 

Durga Leela, Founder of Yoga for Recovery, B.A., C.A.S., holds the RYT-500 qualification, having completed both the Sivananda Yoga teacher training course and an advanced Yoga training. She is also extensively trained in meditation and Vedanta. Durga is a clinical Ayurvedic and Pancha Karma specialist, trained in both the United States and India, and has served as the director of the Ayurveda programs at the Yoga Farm, in California, since 2003. She is a professional member of and speaker for the National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) and International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) and a member of Yoga Alliance.

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More Inspiration for the Spiritual Journey

We are so sorry to say that this event has been canceled.

 

Join Swamis Ramananda and Asokananda for more inspiration and encouragement on the spiritual journey. In this second online workshop, they will share the teachings and practices that have most impacted their lives and guided them towards spiritual equilibrium.
The spiritual path is beset with challenges and pitfalls, and progress is slow. Almost all of us will greatly benefit from having friends who have traveled this road, who can share their experience, and who care enough to want to support us. These two senior and respected Integral Yoga swamis will discuss what has sustained them for many years and what is inspiring to them at this time.

Half of the session will be dedicated to Q&A. Please bring your heartfelt questions. All are welcome regardless of whether or not the first program was attended.

 

Testimonials
“Sw. Asokananda is so knowledgeable and willing to share with honesty. It’s always a pleasure to hear him speak.” — Devi Peterson

“Studying with Asokananda, experiencing and listening to his guidance and insights is so refreshing to my soul. I loved what he offered to solidify our understanding of experience.” — Sevika Douglass

“Swami Ramananda has deep personal knowledge of the topics and uses his personal experience and compassion to share these valuable teachings in a genuine and compelling way.” — Anne Tedesco

“Ramananda has such a wealth of information…I love learning from him, and I gathered so much. Thank you Ramanandaji. Such a gift to spend time with you, even virtually. Your presence is so powerful.” — Rashmi Galliano

 

About

Swamis Ramananda is the Executive Director of the Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco and a greatly respected senior teacher in the Integral Yoga tradition, who has been practicing Yoga for over 45 years. Ramananda offers practical methods of integrating the timeless teachings and practices of Yoga into daily life, and transforming the painful aspects of human experience into steps toward realizing one’s full potential. He leads beginner, intermediate and advanced level Yoga teacher training programs in San Francisco, and offers a variety of programs in many locations in the U.S., Europe and South America. Ramananda co-developed the Stress Management Teacher Training program with Swami Vidyananda, has trained many teachers to bring Yoga into corporate, hospital and medical settings, and has taught mind/body wellness programs in many locations. He is a certified Yoga therapist and founding board member of the Yoga Alliance, a national registry that supports and promotes yoga teachers as professionals. He is a co-founder of The Spiritual Action Initiative (SAI) which brings together individuals committed to working for social justice for all beings and for the care and healing of our natural world. His warmth, wisdom and sense of humor have endeared him to many.

 

Swami Asokananda, E-RYT 500, a monk since 1973, is one of Integral Yoga’s foremost teachers—known for his warmth, intelligence, and good humor. His teaching comes out of his own practice and experience, having absorbed the wisdom of his Guru, Sri Swami Satchidananda.
While he enjoys sharing the practical wisdom of yogic philosophy (especially the great Indian scripture, the Bhagavad Gita), he also loves his practice of Hatha Yoga. He is one of Yogaville’s primary instructors for intermediate and advanced Hatha Yoga teacher trainings.

He presently serves as president at the Integral Yoga Institute in New York City. Before this position, he served as the President of Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville and Integral Yoga International.

 

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Therapeutic Core Strengthening

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$20 Early bird, ends on March 7th
$25

Please register in advance, a Zoom link and passcode will be provided via confirmation email.

Yoga Therapy Clinic presents:

Learn to understand the importance of core strength as support for balance, lower back and more.

We will look at the anatomy just briefly and then in movement we will recognize and feel the different parts of the core and how they can engage in movement together with the rest of the body. We will explore what happens when we use or don’t use the core, and how to teach the body to start using these muscles again.

We will practice in a gentle way series of strengthening practices for your core. It will be done in a chair, standing and on the floor.

All levels of practitioners are welcome.

Diana Meltsner, C-IAYT and e-RYT500, has been teaching yoga in the Bay Area since 2001. The classes she teaches include chair/gentle, various levels of Hatha yoga, prenatal, guided mindfulness meditations and yoga and meditation workshops. Diana has been a lead teacher trainer for 200-hour Integral Yoga Teacher Trainings since 2012. She is C-IAYT certified yoga therapist and offers individual therapeutic sessions with focus on physical and mental wellness. Her offerings help people to find a deeper sense of well-being and ability to move through life with increased ease, intuition, and stress resilience. www.dianameltsner.com

 

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Health Benefits of Yoga

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$35 Early bird, ends Feb. 20th |  $40 Regular

Please register in advance, a Zoom link and passcode will be provided via confirmation email.

Yoga Therapy Clinic presents:

Join Dr. Amrita for an interactive talk on the Health Benefits of Yoga:

  • learn the basics of a yogic diet, including superfoods that fight heart disease and cancer
  • explore the all-important role that laughter and love play in keeping you healthy
  • learn about the wellness benefits of a yogic lifestyle

She will introduce the current scientific research on health benefits of Hatha Yoga, pranayama, Yoga Nidra, and meditation.

About Dr. Amrita McLanahan

Dr. Sandra Amrita McLanahan founded Integral Health Services, America’s first integrative medicine health center in 1977. For twenty years, Dr. Sandra Amrita McLanahan served as director of stress management for Dr. Dean Ornish’s research using Yoga and lifestyle changes to reverse heart disease and cancer. She now practices integrative medicine at Yogaville.
Dr. Amrita is the co-author of the book, Surgery and Its Alternatives: How to Make the Right Choices for Your Health, and was the medical consultant for the book Dr. Yoga: A Complete Guide to the Medical Benefits of Yoga (Yoga for Health) and helped to write After Cancer Care: The Definitive Self-Care Guide to Getting and Staying Well for Patients with Cancer.
Her newest book Take a Deep Breath: A Simple Exercise Guide to Increasing Your Oxygen Intake is addressing the topic of healing benefits of pranayama. It is available online at iydistribution.com and on Amazon.

 

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