Yoga and the Twelve-Step Path

by Kyczy Hawk

Overview

The powerful practice of yoga, with all its diverse approaches and time-honored traditions, meets twelve-step recovery.

Those in recovery who yearn to connect more fully in the suggested "prayer and meditation" of Step Eleven will welcome this delightful book from a fresh voice in recovery literature. Kyczy Hawk's experiences of addiction and recovery make her a relatable, compassionate guide to an integrative practice that addresses the threefold aspects of addiction―body, mind, and spirit―for a new experience of recovery and of physical and spiritual health.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936290888
Publisher:	Central Recovery Press, LLC
Publication date:	04/16/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	258
Sales rank:	843,962
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Kyczy (Keet-ski) Hawk is a yoga teacher and potter living and working in San Jose, California, where her primary focus is teaching yoga classes designed for people recovering from addictions. Traveling to recovery homes, halfway houses, and detention centers, she has been involved with the Art of Yoga Project and the Niroga Institute; both organizations work with at risk youth. She is a certified Yoga of Recovery (YoR) Counselor.

She is in long term recovery. This is her first book.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Chapter One My Story
Chapter Two What Is Yoga?
Chapter Three What Is Addiction?
Chapter Four Combining Yoga and the Twelve Steps of Recovery
Chapter Five The Yamas
Chapter Six The Niyamas
Chapter Seven Hatha Yoga
Chapter Eight Pranayama
Chapter Nine Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana and Samahdi
Chapter Ten The Gunas and the Mind States
Chapter Eleven Ayurveda and the Doshas
Chapter Twelve Bringing It All Together
Appendix I Styles of Yoga
Appendix II Ayurvedic Resources
Appendix III Asana Sequences and Guide
Appendix IV Twelve-Step Principles

Editorial Reviews

Hawk offers a way for people in recovery from addiction to work their Twelve-Step program in a way that will enhance their physical, mental, and spiritual health: through the practice of yoga. A yoga teacher, potter, and recovering addict, Hawk has walked the walk. Twelve-Steppers and counselors, the likeliest readers of the book, should know that Hawk concentrates on explaining yoga – its postures and other practices – and not the steps, though her grounding in the latter is clear. Her simple walk-through the parts of a true yoga practice, which includes rules for behavior, physical exercise, and breath and meditation practices, make a basic yoga practice highly attainable. She rightly cautions that a teacher is needed to learn the physical postures; the book's instructions can be hard to follow, and there aren't many, or good, photos to illustrate. A chapter on ayurvedic health concepts seems unnecessary. The book is best for those looking to enrich their recovery by developing more physical, and mental, flexibility. (Apr. 16)

Publishers Weekly