Yoga for Addiction: Using Yoga and the Twelve Steps to Find Peace in Recovery [16pt Large Print Edition]

Yoga provides a crucial ingredient for lasting recovery from addiction: a way to relate to the body so that we can live in it comfortably without the need to numb it. In Yoga for Addiction, readers will find a gentle yoga practice that supports and complements traditional twelve step programs, so they can manage emotions, find freedom from addiction, and live a more joyful life.

Katy Cryer, MS, is founder and director of Square One Yoga, a chain of yoga studios in the San Francisco Bay Area. Cryer's founding mission for Square One is the same mission in her writing: to present and teach yoga in a way that is accessible and unintimidating for every body. Sober since 2006, Cryer credits yoga for giving her the skills and freedom to stay grounded in recovery.Judith Hanson Lasater, PhD, PT, has taught yoga around the world and in almost all fifty states in the US since 1971. She is a founder of Yoga Journal magazine, and holds a senior teaching certificate given to her directly by B.K.S. Iyengar in 1983. She is author of ten books, including her most recent, Yoga Myths.