The Moore Institute

Recovery Dharma
2019-05-11 10:30 - 11:30, 2019-05-13 18:00 - 19:00, 2019-05-15 19:00 - 20:00, 2019-05-18 10:30 - 11:30, 2019-05-20 18:00 - 19:00, 2019-05-22 19:00 - 20:00, 2019-05-25 10:30 - 11:30, 2019-05-27 18:00 - 19:00 UTC and 2 more dates | AL
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.

Refuge Recovery
2019-05-13 18:00 - 19:00, 2019-05-20 18:00 - 19:00, 2019-05-27 18:00 - 19:00 | The Moore Institute, 4126 Autumn Ln, Birmingham, AL, 35243, United States
Buddhist inspired recovery

SMART Recovery and SMART for Friends and Family
2019-05-14 18:00 - 19:30, 2019-05-21 18:00 - 19:30, 2019-05-28 18:00 - 19:30 | AL
CBT Recovery for Addicts/ Alcoholism
CBT Recovery For Friends and Family

Bright Spot Drug Addict Anonymous Meeting Tuesdays at 8 pm
2019-05-14 20:00 - 21:00, 2019-05-21 20:00 - 21:00, 2019-05-28 20:00 - 21:00 | AL, United States
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Drug Addicts Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who have recovered from addiction and are committed to helping those who still suffer. We have recovered by using the Twelve Steps as outlined in the book of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Drug Addicts Anonymous is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization, or institution, does not engage in any controversy, and neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to recover from our addiction and help other addicts to achieve the same freedom. Drug Addicts Anonymous is not dedicated to users of any one specific drug, and use of no single drug was predominant among our members.

Drug Addicts Anonymous is fully supported by voluntary contributions from its members and declines outside donations.

The Twelve Step program is a fact-finding and fact-facing process. It requires action on the part of the addict and, if worked properly, will be intensive and enlightening. Newcomers may choose to be guided through the steps by experienced members of Drug Addicts Anonymous who have had deep and effective spiritual experiences as the result of working the steps themselves.

Once we were able to admit that we had been defeated by addiction, all that was required to begin the program was willingness, honesty, and open-mindedness.

Drug Addicts Anonymous DOES NOT:

• Keep attendance records.
• Monitor or control members.
• Recruit or solicit members.
• Provide detox, rehab, hospitalization, medication, or psychiatric treatment.
• Offer religious services.
• Dispense food, clothing, jobs, money, or other social services.
• Provide letters of reference to parole boards, lawyers, or courts.

Refuge Recovery
2019-05-15 10:30 - 11:30, 2019-05-22 10:30 - 11:30, 2019-05-29 10:30 - 11:30 | AL
Buddhist Inspired Recovery From All Addictions
All Are Welcomed!!

GRASP Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing
2019-05-17 18:00 - 19:00 | AL
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

C3 Sangha
2019-05-18 09:00 - 10:00, 2019-05-25 09:00 - 10:00, 2019-06-01 09:00 - 10:00 | The Moore Institute, 4126 Autumn Ln, Birmingham, AL, 35243, United States
A formal meditation followed by a study of Buddhist principals. Every Saturday from 9:00 am until 10:15 am

Y12SR Birmingham
2019-05-19 17:30 - 19:30, 2019-06-02 17:30 - 19:30 | AL
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

ILLUMAN
2019-05-26 14:00 - 15:30 | AL
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.

The Cultivation of Happiness: Life in Recovery
2019-06-01 | The Moore Institute, 4126 Autumn Ln, Birmingham, AL, 35243, United States
Refuge Recovery
One Day Retreat
Saturday June 1, 2019
9am to 4pm
with Jean Tuller, Executive Director of Refuge Recovery

The Cultivation of Happiness: Life in Recovery

So much of addiction is craving for that which brings momentary happiness. We will work with that which brings enduring happiness which exists outside of craving.
There will be guided meditations, large and small group discussion and collaborative work.
Lunch included
At C3, 4126 Autumn Lane, Birmingham Alabama 35243
All donations accepted, generosity applies. Suggestion is $45 per person
All proceeds from this event will benefit Refuge Recovery Organization’s effort to reaffirm itself legally independent of any representative individual teacher(s) in order to continue to be a resource and global community infrastructure for those seeking a buddist path to recovery
