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Drinking Alcohol: A Big No-No for Serious Yogis?

October 30, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 14 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat It was one of those behaviours or activities that started softly, softly, slipping in under the mat and under awareness. A shared bottle of wine once a week. A shared bottle of wine twice a week. A bottle of vodka in the house - a cocktail before dinner four or five times a week, then a glass or two of wine. Never more than two or three drinks in a night, never every night of the week. But still... As time went by, this behaviour  began to tug at my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat, What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi? Tagged With: alcohol, drinking, gunas, tamas

Is our addiction to Spirits a symptom of an UnSpirited society?

October 9, 2012 by Melissa Billington 18 Comments

by Melissa Billington MYOGA’s second focus in the deeper part of winter has been on the 7th chakra -  Sahasrara - a place of surrender, acceptance, unity consciousness and spirit. As I let my vision be filled by these ideas, I became more and more aware of society’s mass disconnection from a sense of anything larger than ourselves – from Source - and how this shows up in our levels of medication and self-medication. It is no accident that alcohol is called ‘spirits’ - it shares the same … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yoga & Community Tagged With: alcohol, drinking, drunk, medicating, medication, sahasrara, seventh chakra, Source, Spirit, surrender

How yoga helped me… recover from drug and alcohol addiction

November 22, 2010 by Guest Author 1 Comment

Looking for belonging

  This is an on-going series of yoga stories from readers about how yoga has made a difference their life. To contribute your story, click here. Submitted by Clare S. (not her real name) of New Zealand Coming from a dysfunctional family, it is not really a surprise that I got involved with punk rockers and street kids in my early teens. I felt a sense of belonging, I was needed. I brought them food and snuck them home for showers and meals. It didn't take long for me … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me Tagged With: addiction, alcohol, drugs, recovery

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