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Yoga & addiction recovery

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5 Yoga Teachers Who Overcame Addiction

Yoga teachers Tommy Rosen, Kia Miller, Nikki Myers, Rolf Gates, and Vinnie Marino talk about their addictions and how coming to the mat helped their recovery and renewal.

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How Yoga and Exercise Help with Addiction Recovery

Certain types of yoga can produce a natural “high” that can help those recovering from addiction. For Troy Jackson, yoga proved to be such a powerful recovery tool that he’s now a yoga teacher.

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Yoga Is a Stress Reliever—But It Can Also Help Beat Addiction

In a 2017 pilot study out of UCLA, when adults who were addicted to cocaine or methamphetamines participated in an eight-week MBRP program that included some yoga practice, they experienced less substance use and showed improvements in the severity of depression, anxiety, and other psychiatric...

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Daily Reflections on Addiction, Yoga, and Getting Well

Rolf Gates, author of Meditations from the Mat, has walked the walk of the 12-step method of recovery while traveling down the Buddhist eightfold way and practicing the Eight Limbs of Classical Yoga. His integrated approach has been the key to his understanding of sobriety for over 25 years.

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Episode 103: Dr. Gabor Maté

On the wisdom of trauma, the difference between healthy and unhealthy anger, our issues as our finest teachers, and the coping child within each of us.

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Episode 100: Ask Elena

Answering your questions on topics from scheduling to sobriety, parenting to prioritizing steadiness, Elena and her collaborator Michelle Martello of Minima Designs celebrate the 100th episode of Practice You.

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Achieving Peace, Harmony, Balance, and Success

Unity in Yoga host Maya Breuer chats with special guest Berry Murray who attributes her success as the owner of a thriving IT Business and Five Star Bed and breakfast, the Brooklyn Coffee Tea Guest House, to her yoga practice.

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Episode 53: Laura McKowen

On the road to sobriety, the questions we need to ask, and the ways we need to listen.

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Episode 47: Kim Krans

On the practice of allowing healing to be revealed; on art as a vehicle for recovery.

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Episode 33: Ritual of Recovery

The Ritual of Recovery: Elena’s first spoken word piece to honour her five years of sobriety.

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