No experience or equipment needed!
All levels welcome!
Recovery Yoga is a class specifically designed to provide a safe and comfortable space for people healing from substance use disorder. An excellent instructor, with lived experience in recovery, guides people of all health, fitness, and experience levels, through gentle-to-moderate Yoga postures and sequences. Goals are for participants to improve both physical and emotional wellness, by achieving relaxation and gaining fitness, confidence, self-acceptance, and personal empowerment.
Recovery Yoga is on break for the summer. Class will resume in the fall.
Classes will be held in Studio 1 at The Bangor Region YMCA
COST: FREE to all Participants
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
In the Spring, our Y and St Joseph Healthcare ran a pilot program for this class, thanks to Miki MacDonald, with St Joseph Healthcare, who earned a grant to cover the expenses.
The grant consists of two parts, both seeking to aid people on their road to recovery from substance use disorder (SUD). One part involves providing sober housing, and another part – ours – involves running a yoga program, lead by a yoga instructor, who is in long-term recovery herself and whose journey was aided by her positive experiences with yoga.
Engaging in exercise can empower individuals striving for sober living, by enabling them to improve physical fitness and enhance their psychological well-being, including their sense of self-efficacy. Certainly, engagement in group exercise and engagement with a community like the Y can also enhance psychological sense of community. We hope to play a role in all of this… in getting people through the doors, in enhancing health, in growing confidence, and in expanding sense of community. All of these things can reduce anxiety, depression, isolation, and risk of relapse.
The program is for those identifying with being in recovery. It is free to all participants. Those who want to attend Recovery Yoga will receive a 5-punch day pass. With this day pass, participants can go to the Monday yoga class and after class concludes, may even enjoy the rest of the facilities our Y has to offer. This punch pass is only redeemable on Recovery Yoga Mondays.
For more information about Recovery Yoga, email Nicole Mullins, Fitness & Health Director or email Miki Macdonald, Nurse Practitioner at St. Joseph Healthcare.