Live Be Yoga | Stories From The Road – Turning Point Center

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there's something called positive addictions there are some good things you can be addicted to that are going to make your life better this would be one of them the turning point center of Burlington Vermont is a peer-to-peer drug treatment in recovery center it helps people transition to healthy and fulfilled lives the center is tackling burlington's opioid epidemic in a very unique way by creating a community recovery yoga program people who are you know within days of coming out of treatment or coming out of prison or you know Correctional Facility or coming off the street because they just decided it's time this is where they come facilities and resources and support here absolutely amazing and the people are incredible when make came in said Gary I would you considered having us to a yoga program here I said absolutely because there's the the whole spiritual side the connecting side the social is the the physical side of just getting people distressed and relaxed and focused on themselves those are very important powerful pieces to recovery I personally think I might be addicted to yoga I do it compulsively I feel bad when I don't do yoga after a few days I've been clean and sober for 60 months I struggled with opioids prescription medication I struggle with anxiety and depression and I've been doing yoga here the turning point to combat all these issues rather than self-medicate like I used to there's a lot of us who turn to alcohol and drugs we have that feeling like we and get them manual you know that this how do people know how to do this life and when yoga or some other practice allows us to feel like we've hit a comfort zone like we're in our bodies were in this moment we you know it's like the stuff that happens with yoga but then knowing that there's this underpinning of the recovery that it's deepening the recovery at the same time it just I don't know I can't put words on it together we can do a lot by ourself we're limited didn't take much for me to see that this was a very special place that there were lives being saved here there were lies being rebuilt here and that giving people who are moving from a life of addiction to one of recovery was an extraordinary thing for them to accomplish and an extraordinary place that could support that