Y12SR Trainings in 2023

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Yoga, Writing, & Recovery SerieS & Workshops in 2022

The Yoga, Writing, and Recovery Series was created to offer a bridge between the body, the mind, and the spirit- between the head, the heart and the voice. Writing in community creates a space for shared experience, support and healing. We include embodied practice, meditation, writing, and sharing stories.

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Y12SR Weekly Meetings in 2022

  • EVERY TUESDAY, 7-8:30 pm EDT, online, by donation (topic, sharing, practice, open to anyone on a path of recovery from any addiction, or affected by the addictive behavior of others). Link to register below, or visit y12sr.com.

    Register for Tuesday Y12SR Resource and Recovery Meeting

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ON “SERVICE”

Most of what I offer falls, for me, in the category of service.

I really can’t say enough about service. And I feel often the word is quite loaded.

I'm calling for a "rebranding" of service as a guiding principle and a way of being. 

Sometimes we think this has to be a huge, sweeping, bold thing– skywriter territory– but really, service begins when we pause, take a deep breath, and look for the common threads between self and other. And when we acquire the willingness, as practitioners, we can trust that it’s also possible to look at how our conditioning severs those common threads. There is such a need for more of this, and a lot of future anguish might not happen if folks regularly practice presence and deep listening. As Patanjali's Yoga Sutra 2:16 states, heyam dukham anagatam: The suffering that has not yet come can be avoided.

Check out this piece I wrote about service for teach.yoga.

“Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every pla…

“Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”

~ John Burroughs, The Divine Soil, April 1908