Yoga of 12-Step Recovery Leadership Training

The Yoga of 12-Step Recovery Leadership Training gives participants the tools to offer weekly Yoga of 12-Step Recovery classes in their communities.

Participants learn to:

• Create safe, sacred, open, inclusive space that welcomes all those dealing with their own addictive behavior or are affected by the addictive behavior of others.
• Understand the 12-step process of addiction recovery as well as recognizing the symptomology of unresolved trauma, and a dys-regulated nervous system.
• Use yoga and its practices to provide relapse prevention tools and sustainable ways for managing internal states.
• Take advantage of teachable moments, help resolve ambivalence and work with those who are struggling emotionally.
• Use social learning theory to model new behavior through observational learning.
• Recognize the traps of projection, transference, countertransference, boundary violation, spiritual bypass/arrogance.
• Work collaboratively within the group setting and with institutions.
• Develop a network of professionals including trauma experts and others in the addiction/recovery treatment field.

As a result of the CITYOGA Yoga of 12-Step Recovery Leadership training, there are now 12-step recovery based yoga classes held all over the United States.