FEATURE: YOGA AND ADDICTION RECOVERY
[Recovery] is prakriti, which means it’s
always changing. Everything’s changing.
There are stages of recovery like there are
stages of asana practice. My asana practice
at 62 years old is different from my asana
practice when I was 30. Somewhere between six and eight years [of recovery],
there’s a stage shift, and there’s another shift
a little later on. And we have to acknowledge those shifts. Like in asana, we’re more
precarious and more likely to get hurt during transitions.
EH: I like the fact that you frame Y12SR
as relapse prevention instead of calling it a
“program of recovery.”
NM: Absolutely not! It’s an adjunct. It’s just
another piece of a platform, and there’s
more needed…We emphasize that this is
not a replacement for a 12-step meeting,
a sponsor, or anything like that. This is an
adjunct. It