You Are Loved- It's Already Alright (All Right)

Sometimes it is hard to let it in. There are moments when you may feel your heart stretching so much that can be close to painful. We may not recognize this foreign sensation because we have denied it for so long. Breathe it in, let it saturate your being. You are loved. You are loved by those who you thought might never accept you again. You are loved by those with whom you have had troubles. You are loved by those with whom you have had an easy time. You are loved, even in the deep recesses and corners of your being, by yourself. 

Let today be a day that you let that all in. You are loved. 

​"  Be aware of the warmth and good will from others toward you. Sense your connecting to others, how you are supported by a net of relationships. They don’t have to be perfect. Some people do care about you. You are almost certainly loved.Feel carried by consciousness, the effortless knowing of perception and thought. When stress, worry, pressure, or pain appear in the mind, see that the fabric of this suffering—the underlying operating of the mind—is itself fine, is always already fine." - Rick Hanson- JOT​

Kyczy Hawk- author of "Yogic Tools For Recovery; A Guide For Working The Twelve Steps", "Life in Bit Sized Morsels" and "Yoga And The Twelve Step Path" is also a yoga teacher and a specialist in teaching techniques for introducing yoga to people in recovery S.O.A.R.= Success Over Addcition And Relapse.  Read more at www.yogarecovery.com 

Non-Lying, Non- Hiding

I do pretty well on telling the truth - you ask me a question and I tell you no lies sort of thing. I am good with that. I even have brought truth into my ability to set limits in my life- I am practicing the art of non-over-extension. I don't make up stories anymore about why I prefer not to do something, join in, or volunteer.

Just because there is nothing written next to a certain time on my calendar does not mean that I have to fill it - to say yes. I need to have commas in my day, moments of non doing.

The problem is that I still lie to myself; I don't need this rest, I must do this thing, I am not worthy, I look too (fill in the blank). I hide the truth from myself and I hide behind a lie. This lie is often based on special rules I have for myself that I would not have for any other being.  The "you should, you must, everyone else is and you should too" sort of thing. Can I, today, avoid these lies and perhaps let my love and self respect come out of hiding? 

First I must avoid fighting it, perhaps make friends with this character defect. Then work on taming it. :-)

Non-Lying 

Fully facing, getting to know, and actually welcoming the various kinds of liar that I am gives me a taste of not excluding anything; a taste of no inside, no outside. The more I can do this with no outcome or gaining idea in mind, the more truth-speaking and selflessness can naturally arise.

Roshi Nancy Mujo Baker, "Non-Lying"

Kyczy Hawk RYT E-500

Author “Yoga and the Twelve Step Path” and “Life in Bite-Sized Morsels” and “From Burnout to Balance” among others. She is the founder of S.O.A.R.(™) Success Over Addiction and Relapse

You can join Kyczy and a host of other people in recovery every Sunday morning at 7am PT (10 am ET) on In The Rooms for the Yoga Recovery meeting.

Kyczy has been teaching recovery focused yoga classes since 2008.  Taking the foundation of a traditional yoga training she received from the Lotus Yoga Teacher Association (of the Himalayan Yoga Institute), she has combined the wisdom and inspiration from other teachers along the way.  

Publishing “Yoga and the Twelve Step Path” was the happy conclusion to years of study and research into the inter-relationship between the philosophy of yoga and the principles of 12 Step recovery.  

A leader of Y12SR (Yoga of 12 Step Recovery) classes for nearly five years and a devoted teacher to people in treatment centers and in jail- Kyczy created a teacher training program for others who wish to work in this field.  Trauma sensitivity and the somatics of moving home into your body are some of the basics taught in S.O.A.R.(™) Success Over Addiction and Relapse

With deep bows she thanks her teachers; Sarla Walters, Durga Leela, Annalisa Cunningham and Nikki Myers.

More about her work can be found at www.yogarecovery.com.

Start From Where You Are

Start from where you are - WHOLE heartedly- accepting yourself in this present moment. Start from where you are - rather than the place you wish were were, you hoped to be, or thought you should be. 

Start from where you are - loving yourself in this perfect moment, this correct time. There is no other place or condition or feeling that you could be or have. This IS you, right now. Be THIS fully, be this with compassion.

Start from where you are - accepting this moment is the doorway to the next; this is the way to be in this next moment fully. It is one of the cosmic jokes; you can't change until you ARE.

The paradox of our practice is that the most effective way of transformation is to leave ourselves alone. The more we let everything be just what it is, the more we relax into an open, attentive awareness of one moment after another.-  Barry Magid, "Five Practices to Change Your Mind"

Kyczy Hawk E-RYT200, RTY500 is the author of “Yoga and the Twelve Step Path” (2012) and “Life In Bite Sized Morsels” (2015).

In The Rooms  sponsors an online Yoga Recovery meeting Sunday 7am PST.  Log in and join her there.

She leads two Y12SR, yoga of twelve step recovery, classes a week for the public at Willow Glen Yoga in San Jose. Kyczy is the creator of SOAR(tm) (Success Over Addiction and Relapse) instructing teachers about the unique needs of the recovery population. This certification training now available in an ONLINE study course.  http://www.yogarecovery.com/SOAR__tm__Cert_all.html

Check out her ONLINE RECOVERY INFUSED YOGA CLASSES:

http://yogarecovery.studiolivetv.com/MemberRegistrationYR.aspx 

Relationship with Yourself - Love Can Be Difficult

IN RELATIONSHIPS; WITH OTHERS AND WITH YOURSELF

Remember... you are in relationship with yourself - so the best you bring to ANY relationship - you also bring to yourself. Do be kind, and loving and patient, forgiving and disciplined with yourself.  With permission and with guidance - grow in the direction of your sun; your internal goodness and your higher power.

Love Can be Hard

“Love can be hard. Love requires you to be kind when you are angry, patient when you feel anxious, compassionate when you judge others, caring when you feel apathetic, trust when you've been wronged, let go when you want to hold on, know that the other person is you, take risks when you're scared, to always see the lesson and never look back once you've decided."

- Jackson Kiddard

Kyczy Hawk is the author of "Yoga and the Twelve Step Path" and founder of S.O.A.R.(tm) Success Over Addiction and Relapse. She offers training on line and teaches in person in Treatment Centers, and Jail. She also leads Y12SR classes at Willow Glen Yoga in the Silicon Valley area of California.
www.yogarecovery.com

Breathe In Your Dignity

Breathe In Your Dignity

Dignity is such a powerful word.  In our yoga practice aligning ourselves in tadasana - standing mountain- I conclude the description of finding alignment, righting our stature, with the words "balancing your head with dignity".   I use those words purposefully - to bring the ideas of the head (the mind) in alignment with our physical body and our feeling body - to bring them all together -  in a way that opens us up to our own wonderful be-ing.  

Standing tall with foundation, integration and dignity we can feel our self ESTEEM, our own self regard and self respect.  It is in finding those qualities in ourselves that we can be authentically familiar with them and offer them to others.

My own practice of lovingkindness has opened me to the power of compassion and to the fact that all beings want to be happy. Everybody wants to have their innate dignity recognized and to recognize the innate dignity of others.

- Sharon Salzberg, "Why I Support Fast Food Workers"

Kyczy Hawk is the author of "Yoga and the Twelve Step Path" and founder of S.O.A.R.(tm) Success Over Addiction and Relapse. She offers training on line and teaches in person in Treatment Centers, and Jail. She also leads Y12SR classes at Willow Glen Yoga in the Silicon Valley area of California.

www.yogarecovery.com