Addiction is a highly complex, chronic condition that necessitates a multidisciplinary approach. This course moves beyond a narrow focus on the biology and psychology of the individual to look at the socioeconomic, environmental, and systemic issues impacting the etiology of addiction, as well as the quality of treatment and recovery.

Addiction is rarely a simple failure of will; it is often a profound, aching search for safety and connection in a world that feels divided and overwhelming. This brand-new 10-hour training takes complex systemic stressors and maps them directly to the brain, illustrating how childhood adversity and environmental deficits fundamentally alter our neural pathways. Bridging cutting-edge research with the humanizing heart of yoga, you will learn to apply targeted somatic and mindfulness-based interventions to promote sustained recovery and post-traumatic growth.

By shifting from abstinence-only metrics to holistic paradigms emphasizing whole-person well-being, this course examines yoga’s unique potential to support individuals in an evolving process of change as they navigate the continuum of care. You will learn targeted techniques to repair the brain’s reward system, attenuate cravings, regulate strong emotions, and slowly build distress tolerance over time.

What if recovery wasn’t about fixing a broken version of yourself but a process of remembering your way home? Combine breathwork, movement, myofascial release, mindfulness, and yoga nidra into multicomponent practices to soothe dysregulated nervous systems, promote reparative and adaptive neuroplasticity, and guide students back to the innate, inviolable wholeness that has always lived inside.