Recovery Dharma
2018-12-12 19:00 - 20:00, 2018-12-15 10:30 - 11:30, 2018-12-10 18:00 - 19:00 UTC
Recovery Dharma is a Buddhist-oriented path to freedom from addiction. This is an approach to recovery that understands: “All individuals have the power and potential to free themselves from the suffering that is caused by addiction.” We feel confident in the power of the Dharma, if applied, to relieve suffering of all kinds, including the suffering of addiction. This is a process that cultivates a path of awakening, the path of recovering from the addictions and delusions that have created so much suffering in our lives and in this world.

Recovery Dharma is a systematic approach to training our hearts and minds to see clearly and respond to our lives with understanding and non-harming. You are entering a way of life that may be familiar to some and foreign to others. In the beginning some of it may seem confusing or counter-instinctual, and some of it is. But you will find that with time, familiarity and experience, it will all make perfect sense and will gradually become a more and more natural way of being.

ILLUMAN
2018-12-30 14:00 - 15:30
MEET OTHER MEN COMMITTED TO BECOMING BETTER, MORE AUTHENTIC MEN

Illuman is a not for profit organization for men who are simply interested in becoming better, more authentic men. We welcome all men to our work without regard for your ethnicity, class, education, sexual orientation, religion or any other characteristic that might make you feel excluded.
Illuman’s Implementation Of Council
The Way of Council is Illuman’s primary practice, implemented at all levels of our work, from rites of passage to chapter meetings, from our homes to our wider communities. We respect this enough to equip men to do it well, but we acknowledge that council emerges apart from our efforts to control it. Circles have an archetypal life of their own. Council is the best teacher of council.

The Four Intentions of Council

Listen from the heart.
Speak from the heart.
Be spontaneous and authentic.
Be lean of expression.

GRASP Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing
2019-01-04 18:00 - 19:00, 2018-12-21 18:00 - 19:00
Anyone who has lost a loved one through substance use knows that society treats this loss differently than a death from any other cause. There is the belief that the one who died must have somehow been a bad person. And for those of us left behind, that we too must have somehow been a bad person. We must have been a bad parent, a bad spouse, a bad partner, a bad sibling, a bad friend, or the person we love wouldn’t have died. But we are not bad people. The one we lost was not a bad person. There is no blame here. For them or for you. They did their best. They struggled with their disease but, ultimately, this disease took their life. And however you tried to save them, you did your best. Because that’s what love does.

Grief Recovery After Substance Passing (GRASP) was created to offer understanding, compassion, and support for those who have lost someone they love through addiction and overdose. Too many times we suffer not only the death of the person we love, but we become isolated in our grief. We feel, and too many times it is true, that no one understands our pain. But at GRASP, we do. We have suffered this same kind of loss and we have found the love and connection that only those who have lived this loss can give another. And while the pain of this loss will always be with us, we have found through GRASP that we don’t have to walk the road that is our pain alone. We walk it together; hand in hand and heart to heart.
Come, join us. And become a part of the healing community that is GRASP!

Contact Lori Ritter at 205-910-0789 or loricritter@bellsouth.net for information and to pre-register

Y12SR Birmingham
2019-03-03 17:30 - 19:30, 2019-03-17 17:30 - 19:30
50 minute 12-step like discussion and 50 minute yoga practice with a 10 minute break. By donation only.
Discussion Topic: Spiritual principles of the first 3 steps include HOW (Honesty, Open-mindedness, Willingness), Acceptance, Surrender, Hope, Faith, Trust. How do we apply them in our everyday lives?
Yoga Practice: The Panchamaya Kosha Model (The 5 Bodies)
What are they? How the human system is an integrated whole and what happens when there is an imbalance.

Grounding Practice: Radiant Heart Breath
Pranayama (Breathwork): Nadi Shodhana (Alternate Nostril Breathing)
Asana (Poses): Gentle and preparatory for Meditation
Meditation: Yoga Nidra Practice (Yogic Sleep), Pure Awareness
