Guest guest Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 One of my teacher trainers at my small retreat in Maine is a crisis intervention social worker and asked about this.. thanks for any help Sat Nam Amrita Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 Sat Nam! I know two books about this topic: - Mending Alcoholism and Substance Abuse (by Deva Singh Khalsa) - Meditations for Addictive Behavior (by Mukta Kaur Khalsa) Blessings! Sujan S. - " Donna Davidge " <amrita " Kundalini-Yoga " <Kundalini-Yoga > Monday, November 09, 2009 12:11 PM anyone have research on addiction and KY? > One of my teacher trainers at my small retreat in Maine is a crisis > intervention social worker and asked about this.. > > thanks for any help > > Sat Nam > Amrita Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 You might want to contact Sat Dharam Kaur, ND in Owen Sound Ontario. She has developed a series of workshops for addiction recovery. Here's her website www.trilliumhealingarts.ca Kundalini-Yoga , Donna Davidge <amrita wrote: > > One of my teacher trainers at my small retreat in Maine is a crisis > intervention social worker and asked about this.. > > thanks for any help > > Sat Nam > Amrita > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 Have you looked at David Shannahoff-Khalsa's book " Kundalini Yoga Meditations " (available on Amazon)? It has a chapter on compulsive behavior, and a really good practice for it. I used that practice to eliminate my chocolate habit and it worked wonders for me. Kundalini-Yoga , Donna Davidge <amrita wrote: > > One of my teacher trainers at my small retreat in Maine is a crisis > intervention social worker and asked about this.. > > thanks for any help > > Sat Nam > Amrita > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 Sat Nam. Look at Sat Santokh's workshops. His 'Self-Worth' workshops take one through a healing journey through to ones childhood wounds and help provide the healing and the love needed to initiate inner healing. The results are better self-esteem of course, but deeper still is the healing of the root causes and sources of addiction and associated compulsive thoughts, neurosis and behaviors. WWW.SATSANTOKH.COM The Superhealth program is also an invaluable source for experiential results in this area. Well worth researching. Fateh Singh Kundalini-Yoga , " maryprtchrd " <maryp1313 wrote: > > Have you looked at David Shannahoff-Khalsa's book " Kundalini Yoga Meditations " (available on Amazon)? It has a chapter on compulsive behavior, and a really good practice for it. I used that practice to eliminate my chocolate habit and it worked wonders for me. > > Kundalini-Yoga , Donna Davidge <amrita@> wrote: > > > > One of my teacher trainers at my small retreat in Maine is a crisis > > intervention social worker and asked about this.. > > > > thanks for any help > > > > Sat Nam > > Amrita > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 Without any doubt, the single person with the most knowledge in this area is Mukta Kaur Khalsa. She is a close friend, and when I first read the book she recently published on the subject, I immediately wrote a review of it for Amazon. Here's the review. Hope this is helpful: I have been teaching yoga and meditation for over thirty years, and I recently received my copy of " Meditations for Addictive Behavior " by Mukta Kaur Khalsa, Ph.D. After examining it from beginning to end, I'm feeling the need to passionately recommend it to all yoga and meditation teachers, to anyone personally struggling to break addictive behavior patterns of any kind, and to anyone involved with these problems in the health care industry. The book is beautiful, totally sweet, and truly elegant in its simplicity - " user friendly, " not intimidating in any way, and aesthetically lovely. It contains twelve meditations, with twelve dietary tips, and twelve powerful poignant pithy quotations from Yogi Bhajan, the master of Kundalini Yoga who first came to the West from India in 1969. Mukta Kaur Khalsa was one of Yogi Bhajan's first American students. Some of these meditations were given to her personally by Yogi Bhajan, and before now, the only source for them were the handwritten scrawls on small note papers she had kept for decades. The meditations are " accessible, " the presentation of the book is friendly and warm, the book could be picked up by someone with virtually no experience with yoga or meditation and be used safely and effectively. I can't say enough about the beauty of this work, delivering a Master's teachings on breaking addictions so gracefully, by a student so dedicated to spreading this invaluable information. This little book is a gem, totally unique and utterly elegant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 15, 2009 Report Share Posted November 15, 2009 i second that, you could get the part of addictive behaviors for free if you google it. meditation as medicine also has some info on addiction. To be honest, there are some addiction that is hard to beat with yoga alone than other addictions, since yoga focuses on building an energy pattern, and certain addictions seem to break that delicate energy built by KY. Kundalini-Yoga , " maryprtchrd " <maryp1313 wrote: > > Have you looked at David Shannahoff-Khalsa's book " Kundalini Yoga Meditations " (available on Amazon)? It has a chapter on compulsive behavior, and a really good practice for it. I used that practice to eliminate my chocolate habit and it worked wonders for me. > > Kundalini-Yoga , Donna Davidge <amrita@> wrote: > > > > One of my teacher trainers at my small retreat in Maine is a crisis > > intervention social worker and asked about this.. > > > > thanks for any help > > > > Sat Nam > > Amrita > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 Addiction is a interesting path and challenge. In my view, as it stands, to get the most out of KY and addiction it helps to see yoga as just one piece to the puzzle. Going to AA meetings and doing the 12-steps helps share the experience and give support. KY helps bring up the issues to the fore so that they are ready to be released - Teacher Training was like a re-birthing for me. White Tantric and Summer Solstice can help remove and identify all the surrounding subconscious issues and hang-ups surrounding addiction. Healing Journeys like Sat Santokh's work help get down to the root causes and deliver the deeper healing needed to repair past wounds that caused the addiction in the first place. Meditation helps balance you so that you don't fall backwards too much in your forward progress and makes you a better person - making fewer mistakes. This is just a few of the puzzle pieces I've found that worked in the healing of my addictive past and change me as a person. And once you can work in all the pieces, you can actually begin to use your addictive past as a road map to healing to even greater degrees yourself and all those around you, and bring your own unique and creative purpose to fruition. FS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 Here you go: Khalsa, S. B. S., Khalsa, G. S., Khalsa, H. K., & Khalsa, M. K. (2008). Evaluation of a residential Kundalini Yoga lifestyle pilot program for addiction in India. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 7, 67-79. Hope this helps, Nina Kundalini-Yoga , Donna Davidge <amrita wrote: > > One of my teacher trainers at my small retreat in Maine is a crisis > intervention social worker and asked about this.. > > thanks for any help > > Sat Nam > Amrita > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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