About the course instructor:
Durga is a Clinical Ayurvedic and Pancha Karma Specialist, trained at California College of Ayurveda and also in Kerala, India. She leads several Ayurvedic Retreats at International Sivananda Yoga Ashrams. Durga has been involved with the 12-Step Fellowship for over 8 years. She completed her Sivananda Yoga Teachers Training Course in May 2002, the Meditation Immersion Course in January 2005 and the Advanced Yoga Teachers Training Course in March 2006.
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"Durga brings a profound understanding of the psychological issues associated with addiction and recovery to her knowledge of the powerful healing traditions of Yoga and Ayurveda in her retreats and teaching. A recovery retreat led by Durga initiates and supports the process of deep inner work to create lasting change. Attending one of the Yoga, Ayurveda and Recovery Retreats is a personal gift that can last a lifetime."
Felicia M. Tomasko
Editor, LA YOGA Ayurveda and Health magazine
Board member, National Ayurvedic Medical Association
Boardmember, California Association of Ayurvedic Medicine
Yoga of Recovery for Counselors
Certificate Course
Aug 1-10, 2008 (11 nights)
(arrive July 31, leave Aug 10)
Prerequisites
Alcohol/ chemically dependent guests are required to have at least 3 months of continuous sobriety.
Certification
Graduates will receive a joint certficate from Yoga of Recovery and the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm, part of the Sivananda Vedanta Centers International
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of the course you will have the skills to introduce the healing potential of the holistic sciences of Ayurveda and Yoga into your own life and those around you.
For those in counseling roles the course will offer you additional tools and a deeper understanding of the comprehensive approach to wellness, emotional sobriety and sustained spiritual development using Ayurveda and Yoga as extension therapies to any 12 Step work.
As a yoga teacher you will become uniquely qualified and more confident to teach yoga in rehabilitation settings or to people in recovery from any addiction. You will fully understand the root of the problem and the holistic approach, extended from limited understanding of substance abuse/behavioral problems to be treated with asana alone, to a full range of therapies for mind, body and spirit from these powerful healing modalities.
Manual has been specifically written for this course.
What is Ayurveda?
Ayurveda is the healing branch of yogic science, it uses yogic methods, like Yoga postures and breathing exercises, to treat physical disease. It also recommends diet and lifestyle changes as well as herbs to reduce the emotional need for addicting substances, to repair tissue damage and to detoxify body and mind. Yoga is a science of spiritual development aiming at Self-realization.
Yoga of Recovery is the first comprehensive course to combine Ayurveda and Yoga with traditional recovery tools to offer a more holistic mind, body, spirit approach to addiction and self-destructive behaviors.
Yoga of Recovery for Counselors Certificate Course is for therapists, social workers, addiction counselors, sponsors, yoga teachers, Ayurvedic practitioners, etc. and anyone interested in a more holistic and complete view of addiction and its solution. Bringing the West (12 Steps) and the East (Yoga and Ayurveda) together offers us a truly empowering approach to counseling those who embark on a program of recovery. It is the evolution of the solution.
