Luminous Recovery Yoga Podcast

Taking a break | Burnout ❤️Welcome to the Luminous Recovery Yoga YouTube channel! Our mission is to create high-quality yoga videos for people in Twelve Step Recovery programs. In these videos you will find simple, but powerful yoga and meditation practices that support sustainable recovery. We welcome all levels, all bodies, all genders, and all recovery programs! SUBSCRIBE to the channel to join our recovery family! Discover new yoga practices and recovery themed talks that include recovery principles with yoga. Learn what it feels like to practice these principles in all of your poses! - - - - - - - - -

My Recovery from Cannabis Use Disorder | My Sober Story | Meditation ❤️Welcome to the Luminous Recovery Yoga YouTube channel! Our mission is to create high-quality yoga videos for people in Twelve Step Recovery programs. In these videos you will find simple, but powerful yoga and meditation practices that support sustainable recovery. We welcome all levels, all bodies, all genders, and all recovery programs! SUBSCRIBE to the channel to join our recovery family! Discover new yoga practices and recovery themed talks that include recovery principles with yoga. Learn what it feels like to practice these principles in all of your poses! - - - - - - - - - Join the Luminous Recovery Yoga online studio! Your online membership includes LIVE weekly yoga classes with Kari and access to a full video-on-demand library with styles like Vinyasa, Yang/Yin, Mellow flows, Power flows, and Recovery themed yoga practices. This is your one stop shop for yoga, recovery, meditation, and all things Luminous!

Ever met someone and instantly thought, "Yup, we're destined to be yoga BFFs?"    That's how I felt back in April 2019 when I attended the Baptiste Institute's Assisting Course in San Francisco, led by the amazing Melissa Leach!   Melissa is not only a total bad@$$ yoga teacher but also down-to-earth, knowledgeable, and highly experienced in her understanding of yoga, functional anatomy, trauma, and mental health.   During that course, she introduced me to the world of assists in teaching yoga – a game-changing approach that focuses on co-creation between student and teacher, rather than just correcting or adjusting.   Fast forward to today, and I'm thrilled to share that Melissa is joining me on this week's episode of the Luminous Recovery Yoga Podcast!

❤️Welcome to the Luminous Recovery Yoga YouTube channel! Our mission is to create high-quality yoga videos for people in Twelve Step Recovery programs. In these videos you will find simple, but powerful yoga and meditation practices that support sustainable recovery. We welcome all levels, all bodies, all genders, and all recovery programs! SUBSCRIBE to the channel to join our recovery family! Discover new yoga practices and recovery themed talks that include recovery principles with yoga. Learn what it feels like to practice these principles in all of your poses! _____________________________________________ Join the Luminous Recovery Yoga online studio! Your online membership includes LIVE weekly yoga classes with Kari and access to a full video-on-demand library with styles like Vinyasa, Yang/Yin, Mellow flows, Power flows, and Recovery themed yoga practices. This is your one stop shop for yoga, recovery, meditation, and all things Luminous!

Yoga of Recovery | Interview with Durga Leela | Luminous Recovery Yoga podcast ❤️Welcome to the Luminous Recovery Yoga podcast! Our mission is to create high-quality recordings for people in Twelve Step Recovery programs. In these audios you will find simple, but powerful yoga and meditation practices that support sustainable recovery. We welcome all levels, all bodies, all genders, and all recovery programs! SUBSCRIBE to the channel to join our recovery family! Discover new yoga practices and recovery themed talks that include recovery principles with yoga. Learn what it feels like to practice these principles in all of your poses! _____________________________________________ Join the Luminous Recovery Yoga online studio! Your online membership includes LIVE weekly yoga classes with Kari and access to a full video-on-demand library with styles like Vinyasa, Yang/Yin, Mellow flows, Power flows, and Recovery themed yoga practices. This is your one stop shop for yoga, recovery, meditation, and all things Luminous!

The Gift of Confusion | Luminous Recovery Yoga ❤️Welcome to the Luminous Recovery Yoga YouTube channel! Our mission is to create high-quality yoga videos for people in Twelve Step Recovery programs. In these videos you will find simple, but powerful yoga and meditation practices that support sustainable recovery. We welcome all levels, all bodies, all genders, and all recovery programs! SUBSCRIBE to the channel to join our recovery family! Discover new yoga practices and recovery themed talks that include recovery principles with yoga. Learn what it feels like to practice these principles in all of your poses! _________________________________________________ Join the Luminous Recovery Yoga online studio! Your online membership includes LIVE weekly yoga classes with Kari and access to a full video-on-demand library with styles like Vinyasa, Yang/Yin, Mellow flows, Power flows, and Recovery themed yoga practices. This is your one stop shop for yoga, recovery, meditation, and all things Luminous!

Starting Your Own Business as Recovery | interview with Amy Porterfield ❤️Welcome to the Luminous Recovery Yoga podcast! Our mission is to create high-quality yoga and recovery materials for people in Twelve Step Recovery programs. In this podcast you will find simple, but powerful yoga and meditation practices that support sustainable recovery. We welcome all levels, all bodies, all genders, and all recovery programs! SUBSCRIBE to the channel to join our recovery family! Discover new yoga practices and recovery themed talks that include recovery principles with yoga. Learn what it feels like to practice these principles in all of your poses! _________________________________________________ Join the Luminous Recovery Yoga online studio! Your online membership includes LIVE weekly yoga classes with Kari and access to a full video-on-demand library with styles like Vinyasa, Yang/Yin, Mellow flows, Power flows, and Recovery themed yoga practices. This is your one stop shop for yoga, recovery, meditation, and all things Luminous!

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Download your FREE episode guide➡️➡️➡️https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/accept Maybe you can relate—The end of the year always brings up a lot of reflection time for me. Honestly, if you would've asked me this time last year how my life would look a year from now in December 2022, nothing could've prepared me for all the changes that were to come. I've left relationships, a business, started a new business, I moved, and I even saw Lizzo in the front row. (I could see her boob sweat. I was so close!) There have been (and still are) many moments of uncertainty. Many moments of disbelief that my life looks so different than it did this time last year. And yet, if there's one thing I've had to do in order to keep moving, it's accept the things I cannot change. That's why this week's episode of the Luminous Recovery Yoga podcast is about learning to accept the things I cannot change. This phrase comes from a line in the serenity prayer. Over the course of the next few episodes, I'll be breaking down the serenity prayer into three components. If you're not familiar with the Serenity Prayer, it's a jam packed little goodie that helps in many of life's sticky situations, and it goes like this: Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Often times, in a moment of distress over people, places, things and situations over which I cannot control, I take a moment to break down a situation into three components: 1. Things I can't change. 2. Things I can change. 3. Wisdom to know the difference. Maybe you can relate—-when I am not in acceptance of life's circumstances, I can start to spin out. When I'm wishing things were different, I am not being present to life as it is, and it causes suffering of varying degrees. When I'm in a pit of despair—aka suffering—I am not open to the gift of serenity. One of my favorite quotes from the AA Big Book on acceptance says: “When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation—some fact of my life—unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.” (Mic drop

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Download your FREE Savasana practice guide➡️➡️https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/20 In our modern, fast moving society, rest feels like a luxury. In this episode I talk about Savasana and how rest is not only a human right, but overall makes us more productive. I offer my experience, strength, and hope in recovery and why savasana practice matters. Every episode includes a little bit of yoga too. #yoga #baptiste #recovery #savasana #rest

➡️➡️➡️Join me for Yoga of Twelve Step Recovery https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/yoga-of-12-step-recovery In this episode of Luminous Recovery Yoga podcast I discuss the idea of J.A.D.E, which stands for justify, argue, defend, explain. This is an acronym that I love to use in order to assess how much information I need to offer in any given situation. If I find myself offering an explanation for myself as a way of people pleasing, then I ask myself if I really need to share this information. J.A.D.E helps me to remember that I don't have to explain my motives when I'm engaging in self care or needing to do what's best for me. This is a recovery tool that I also find works well when I bring it to my yoga practice. Every episode has a little bit of yoga for embodied understanding. If you enjoy this content, please consider subscribing to my channel and leaving a comment. #yoga #recovery #yogaphilosophy #baptiste

➡️➡️➡️Join me for Yoga of Twelve Step Recovery https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/yoga-of-12-step-recovery In this episode of Luminous Recovery Yoga podcast I discuss the idea of "neti, neti," or "not that, not that." I think of this as our misidentifications and what we believe gives us value. The wise sages would say "neti, neti" whenever someone would try to describe ultimate reality or samadhi. It's not that, not that!, they would say. Every episode has a little bit of yoga for embodied understanding. If you enjoy this content, please consider subscribing to my channel and leaving a comment. #yoga #recovery #yogaphilosophy #baptiste

➡️➡️➡️Join me for Yoga of Twelve Step Recovery https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/yoga-of-12-step-recovery In this episode of the Luminous Recovery Yoga Podcast I share about how I learned to listen. Through my practice of yoga and recovery, I learned to cultivate listening skills in a way that serves me in all areas of my life. If you're interested in learning how to listen I suggest you check out Stone Cairns website as they teach a technique called CLARA, which stands for center, listen, affirm, respond, and add. Stone is an incredible teacher and these practice listening sessions are free! To learn more about Stone and the CLARA method, check out: https://www.findstonecairns.com

➡️➡️➡️Join me for Yoga of Twelve Step Recovery https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/yoga-of-12-step-recovery In this episode of Luminous Recovery Yoga podcast, I explore the principle of contrary action. Basically, do the opposite. One of my favorite episodes of Seinfeld is "Opposite George." George realizes all of his instincts are wrong, so he does the opposite and has impeccable results. Sometimes, when we're changing our behaviors we don't know what the right action may be. So, we can try to do the opposite. If it feels like natural to be impulsive, what happens if you do nothing. If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got. This could be a way to try on new behaviors with low impact. It's also written in the Yoga Sutras (2.33). "When negative thoughts present themselves, cultivate the opposite."

➡️➡️➡️Join me for Yoga of Twelve Step Recovery https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/yoga-of-12-step-recovery One of the most revolutionary things that I learned about boundaries is that they are to contain my own behavior. When I talk about this to most folks for the first time, they usually ask me to say it again slower. lol. It's a pretty interesting idea to consider that boundaries are not things I place on other, but rather tools for keeping myself in check.

➡️➡️➡️Join me for Yoga of Twelve Step Recovery https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/yoga-of-12-step-recovery Last week, we discussed mantras, affirmations, and slogans. This week I share my favorite slogan called T.H.I.N.K. It stands for Thoughtful, Honest, Intelligent, Necessary, Kind. This is my five point checklist whenever I need to respond to something. Whatever text, email, or correspondence I'm engaged in needs to pass all five thresholds. When I do this, it keeps me out of trouble and in my own lane. Let me know if this works for you too!

➡️➡️➡️Join me for Yoga of Twelve Step Recovery https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/yoga-of-12-step-recovery Slogans, affirmations, and mantras are instruments to guide our thinking. In this episode, I offer the Sanskrit meaning of the word "mantra" which means an instrument for thinking. This helps guide my understanding of how short, powerful phrases can pull our thinking out of obsession and downward spiral. What slogans, mantras, and affirmations work in your life today? Every episode includes a little bit of yoga for embodied understanding.

➡️➡️➡️Join me for Yoga of Twelve Step Recovery https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/yoga-of-12-step-recovery In this episode of Luminous Recovery Yoga, I explore one of my favorite recovery concepts "do the next right thing." This helps me both on and off the yoga mat. When I practice doing the next right thing on my mat, it teaches me how to bring this into the rest of my life. Whether it's the next right pose to take or time for a rest, this is something that takes practice. When I do the next right thing, I become more available in the moment to the great unfolding of life.

➡️➡️➡️Join me for Yoga of Twelve Step Recovery https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/yoga-of-12-step-recovery In this episode of Luminous Recovery Podcast I talk about the yogic principle and practice of drishti. Drishti is setting a focused gaze in the pose. I find that drishti helps me immensely on and off the mat. Anytime my mind starts to wander and I become lost in my thoughts, drishti brings me back to the present moment.

➡️➡️➡️Join me for Yoga of Twelve Step Recovery https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/yoga-of-12-step-recovery In this episode of Luminous Recovery Yoga, I explore the word "should." Or as I like to say "should-ing all over." The definition of 'should': used to indicate obligation, duty, or correctness typically when criticizing someone's actions. How often are you "should-ing" on yourself and others? Where does this tend to come up for you?

➡️➡️➡️Join me for Yoga of Twelve Step Recovery https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/yoga-of-12-step-recovery In this episode I share my experience, strength, and hope on the cause of suffering as laid out by the second noble truth of Buddhism. This ancient wisdom tells us that the root of suffering is wishing things were different and not accepting things as they are. This hit me like a ton of bricks this week. Every episode includes a little bit of yoga. I hope you enjoy it.

➡️➡️➡️Attend a Yoga of Twelve Step Recovery Meeting with Kari https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/yoga-of-12-step-recovery If hard doesn't do, easy does it. This episode explores how easy does it helps me through the hard stuff. Life can be challenging, but often times I make it harder. We can get through challenging stuff without adding in the extra hard. Where in your life are you making it harder than it needs to be? Let me know in the comments.

➡️➡️➡️Support the show This episode gets real honest. I share things in this episode that I tend to leave out of my recovery story. Lately, I've been struggling. Part of my struggle is that I'm not sharing what's really going on. So, I'm going to share that now and with you. It takes courage to change, and the first part of that is becoming aware. Thank you for listening.

➡️➡️➡️Sign up for a FREE class with me https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/free-class This episode explores the topic of "stinking thinking." If you're familiar with the rooms of recovery, this is something you'll hear about. It references the idea that our thinking can become distorted and sometimes feels like it's turning on us. The practices of yoga, meditation, and recovery can help us to recognize when our thinking becomes distorted and we can choose something different. In this episode I reference the Alanon daily reader Courage to Change April 14th. Check out my website https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com

There's an idea I've heard before in the rooms of recovery called "right-sizing." As I've worked to raise my self-esteem and self-awareness, this concept of right-sizing has helped me to find myself more clearly in the present. What do you think about right-sizing and how does this play out for you?

In this episode I explore presence. I struggle with presence like every other modern human on earth. I explore different tools that help me to access presence. Breath and higher power are only available to me in the present moment. I am in the process of healing my relationship with the present moment.

In this episode I explore the grief I'm going through. In recovery we talk about "grief of the dream." Grief doesn't only happen when we experience death. Loss can often feel very similarly to death, even if everyone is alive and well. In this episode I share my recent experiences with grief and how I'm using yoga and my twelve step recovery to process this. Every episode is an exploration about how I use the Twelve Steps of recovery and yoga to manage the stress and beauty of life.

In this episode, Kari shares about her struggle with transitions. Kari talks about "the pose" in yoga being a metaphor for life and whether we are transitioning from one pose to the next or one life situation to the next, it can bring up triggers. Change is a challenge for many people, so if you find this episode relatable, please share it. The episode also includes about 10 minutes of yoga to explore the topic of transitions. Every episode is an exploration about how I use the Twelve Steps of recovery and yoga to manage the stress and beauty of life.

Join Kari for the first episode of Luminous Recovery Yoga. In this episode you will learn more about who Kari Doherty is and why she created Luminous Recovery Yoga podcast. Kari is a woman in recovery, a yoga student and teacher. This podcast is an opportunity to share about my yoga and recovery journey and each episode will include a little bit of yoga. Every episode is an exploration about how I use the Twelve Steps of recovery and yoga to manage the stress and beauty of life.