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Yogic Journey Step Study
Yogic Journey Step Study (YJSS), alternate Thursdays starting January 14th, 2010 @ 829 Worthington St. San Diego, CA 92114: A step a month (Jan.-Step 1, Feb.-Step 2, etc...) committed step study (closed after step 4). Format 45 min. yoga and meditation, 45 min. writing and sharing. No charge for step study and yoga is $15/class, discount $250/12 months (25 classes).
Yogic Journey Teacher Training
Yogic Journey Through The Twelve Steps Level One
The Yogic Journey through the Twelve Steps: This series of yoga and meditation classes is designed to help individuals in recovery begin and/or continue to develop a spiritual practice. Yoga means integration of the body, mind and spirit. We each have a body, a mind and a spirit to attend to in our recovery. The regular practice of yoga and meditation offers a profound spiritual experience and deepens the practitioner’s connection with a higher power. The Yogic Journey consists of classes focusing on one or more of the spiritual principles offered in the 12 steps. Each class includes stillness, movement, reflection and meditation. Through the practice of postures of the hands and body, breathing, and meditation techniques such as learning how to focus mentally, we can reduce cravings and obsessive and compulsive thinking to experience peace of mind and serenity. All the yoga and meditations are taught as did the Master of Kundalini Yoga, Yogi Bhajan, and are contained in the book entitled, The Yogic Journey through the Twelve Steps by Lori Jones.
Level One: Level One of the Yogic Journey though the Twelve Steps is designed to teach the practitioner how to develop a yoga practice to support their personal recovery and/or if desired to begin teaching to others. It follows the principle that the best way to learn something is to teach oneself and/or others. There are no prerequisites. Learn:
The structure of Yogic Journey text and class
*To get centered
*Yoga sets for each of the twelve steps
*Meditations for each of the twelve steps
*Learn to deeply relax
*Resources in Yogic Journey
*Establish a regular personal yoga and meditation practice
Yogic Journey Step Study (YJSS), alternate Thursdays starting January 14th, 2010 @ 829 Worthington St. San Diego, CA 92114: A step a month (Jan.-Step 1, Feb.-Step 2, etc...) committed step study (closed after step 4). Format 45 min. yoga and meditation, 45 min. writing and sharing. No charge for step study and yoga is $15/class, discount $250/12 months (25 classes).
Yogic Journey Teacher Training
Yogic Journey Through The Twelve Steps Level One
The Yogic Journey through the Twelve Steps: This series of yoga and meditation classes is designed to help individuals in recovery begin and/or continue to develop a spiritual practice. Yoga means integration of the body, mind and spirit. We each have a body, a mind and a spirit to attend to in our recovery. The regular practice of yoga and meditation offers a profound spiritual experience and deepens the practitioner’s connection with a higher power. The Yogic Journey consists of classes focusing on one or more of the spiritual principles offered in the 12 steps. Each class includes stillness, movement, reflection and meditation. Through the practice of postures of the hands and body, breathing, and meditation techniques such as learning how to focus mentally, we can reduce cravings and obsessive and compulsive thinking to experience peace of mind and serenity. All the yoga and meditations are taught as did the Master of Kundalini Yoga, Yogi Bhajan, and are contained in the book entitled, The Yogic Journey through the Twelve Steps by Lori Jones.
Level One: Level One of the Yogic Journey though the Twelve Steps is designed to teach the practitioner how to develop a yoga practice to support their personal recovery and/or if desired to begin teaching to others. It follows the principle that the best way to learn something is to teach oneself and/or others. There are no prerequisites. Learn:
The structure of Yogic Journey text and class
*To get centered
*Yoga sets for each of the twelve steps
*Meditations for each of the twelve steps
*Learn to deeply relax
*Resources in Yogic Journey
*Establish a regular personal yoga and meditation practice
Lori would love to hear about your experiences practicing yoga and meditation to support your recovery.
If you are interested in attending a step study and/or participating in teacher training Call 619.667-0676 or click here to e-mail Lori.
If you are interested in attending a step study and/or participating in teacher training Call 619.667-0676 or click here to e-mail Lori.
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My qualifications to write a book. I am an active member of Twelve-Step Recovery programs and I enjoy the love, support, and insight of all the tools of recovery including meetings, the twelve steps, sponsorship and fellowship. I have been clean and sober since 1989 by the grace of a loving higher power. During that time, I have worked the twelve steps with the help of sponsors and meetings to recover from addictive behaviors including the abuse of alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, and caffeine. In addition, I have modified unhealthy behaviors including people pleasing, incurring debt, controlling others, over functioning, over eating and desperately trying to fix my outside circumstances so I could feel alright in my own skin. I have come to understand that my happiness is an inside job.
EXCERPT FROM PREFACE THE YOGIC JOURNEY THROUGH THE TWELVE STEPS
Upon approaching my first decade of sobriety, I realized that for most of my recovery I had felt incapable of fully working the eleventh step. I was unable to be still and meditate. One of my greatest fears has been to be alone with myself. Coupled with a lifetime history of difficulty dealing with my emotions, I became motivated to seek help to learn how to calm my mind and deepen my connection with my higher power. I sought out and began attending Kundalini Yoga and Meditation classes. Through the practice of yoga and meditation, I found a safe place to be with, experience, and develop a strong sense of myself. There is a recovery slogan "to thine own self be true". I needed to learn how to be with myself before I could be true to myself. However, I needed help to learn how to be still with myself.
From the first days of my recovery until today, meetings and the spiritual principles of the program have been an integral part of my daily life. Similarly, my practice of yoga and meditation has become important to my overall sense of well-being. I am aware of how much my behaviors have changed. I have developed the ability to control my emotions rather than my emotions controlling me. In addition, I have learned to “respond to” rather than “react to” people and events in my life. I attribute this to my commitment to the continued practice of the principles of recovery and yoga and meditation.
In 2002, I attended an intensive yoga teacher training with Yogi Bhajan Ph.D, the yogi master who brought the teachings of Kundalini Yoga to the United States from India. I was certified as an instructor by the Kundalini Research Institute and I have been teaching yoga classes since that time. In 2003, on my 14th AA anniversary, I taught my first “Yoga to Support Recovery” class. Since that time, I have been teaching classes that emphasize how yoga can support working each of the Twelve Steps. I have taught all of the yoga and meditations contained in the book to students that are in recovery and their comments are included in the book.
I love nothing more than sharing the ancient and life changing teachings of yoga and meditation with individuals who desire to grow spiritually such as those in recovery. Twelve-Step programs teach us that we have a spiritual malady and our cure is to begin our own indiviudal journey on a spiritual path. Yoga and meditation have profoundly enhanced my own spiritual journey.
In our Western culture, yoga has often been thought of as exercises or postures; the spiritual aspect of yoga is not always emphasized in yoga classes. The true meaning of the word yoga is union of the body, mind and spirit. Through practicing yoga as part of my recovery, I have experienced an integration of my own body, mind and spirit. It was in a yoga class where I first felt safe in my own body and was able to relax, be still, and begin to listen to my intuition and higher self.
The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions originating from AA (Alcoholic Anonymous) are the basis of my own recovery and the basis of the fellowship, which has helped hundreds of thousands of alcoholics and addicts to recover. I honor these steps and traditions and I do not propose to alter them in any way. Similarly, I consider the yogic teaching shared with me by many Kundalini yoga teachers including Yogi Bhajan and Sada Anand Kaur Khalsa to be sacred. Sharing these teachings as they have been passed along a golden chain, I see myself as a link in a lineage of spiritual students and teachers. Both Twelve-Step Recovery and Kundalini Yoga and Meditation are whole and complete practices in their own right.
My practice of these two approaches to spirituality has greatly enhanced my own integration and right living. I am sharing in the book and classes my experiences in spiritual healing because I choose to fully live my destiny. I have been blessed by the love and support of many friends and yoga students and the book is a collaborative effort. It is my sincere hope that you will find additional spiritual tools for your recovery tool kit in the book. It is my heartfelt desire that anyone on the path of spiritual growth find their pure light within to guide them on their road to happy destiny.