WORKSHOPS
Healing at the Root: A 12-Month Embodied Journey Through the Twelve Steps
Live Online
Jan 7-Dec 30 , 2026
Healing at the Root is a yearlong immersion that brings the Twelve Steps into lived experience — through yoga philosophy, neuroscience, trauma-informed somatic practices, and the collective wisdom of multiple 12-Step traditions. Each month, we explore one Step in depth, moving from the head into the body, from concept into lived truth.
Rooted in the understanding that the issues live in the tissues, this journey integrates cognitive insight, spiritual grounding, nervous-system regulation, and community connection. Together, we work the Steps in a way that honors the full human experience — mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual.
This program is for anyone seeking a grounded, honest, and holistic pathway to recovery and transformation — whether you are engaged in a 12-Step program, connected to recovery through other traditions, or simply longing to heal at the root and live with more integrity, freedom, and connection.
Intro to Y12SR with Lynn gifford
Live Online
July 18 , 2026
The Yoga of 12-Step Recovery (Y12SR) is a relapse prevention program that was created as a holistic model to address the physical, mental and spiritual dis-ease of addiction. Informed by the latest research in neuroscience and trauma healing, Y12SR “connects the dots” by combining the ancient wisdom and somatic approach of yoga with the cognitive approach of the most well-known addictive recovery program in the world, the 12-step recovery model.
Y12SR’s sustainable recovery program is based in the yoga sutra 2.16 ~ “Future suffering can be avoided.” There is a solution. The path and purpose of yoga and the 12-step recovery program are similar and two-fold: freedom / emancipation (from suffering) and fulfillment (to skillfully navigate through the world while thriving in every area of life).
The Embodied Middle: Truth Before Transcendence and the Art of Sustainable Living and Teaching
with Nikki Myers
Live Online
November 6-8 , 2026
Designed for anyone drawn to deeper inquiry, The Embodied Middle is a four-part immersion exploring balance as capacity: biological, relational, and collective.
The four sessions together form a coherent and complete arc. You’ll encounter a complete experience of discourse, embodied practice, and meaningful exploration.
In uncertain and demanding times, it’s easy to reach for transcendence, to try to rise above what feels uncomfortable or overwhelming. But sustainable living and sustainable teaching begin somewhere else. They begin with truth. Truth about our nervous systems. Truth about our personal patterns. And truth about the cultural conditioning and collective programming that shape how we react, speak, lead, and show up.
This work approaches balance not as an idea, but as an embodied capacity. We’ll explore how regulation influences our steadiness, how dysregulation subtly shapes our language and leadership, and how practice can widen our window of tolerance rather than reinforce performance, over-efforting, or collapse.
Across the weekend we move from Truth Before Transcendence into balance as biology, balance as pedagogy, and balance as sustainability. Each session includes thoughtful discourse, a 75–90 minute embodied practice, and experiential exploration. We’ll examine effort and ease as physiological realities, authority and humility as relational dynamics, and the middle as something we practice, not something we achieve once and for all.
This is a place to get honest. To acknowledge how culture lives in the body, how hyper-individualism, productivity pressure, and inherited narratives shape our internal landscape and our teaching presence. Cultivating capacity within ourselves cannot be separated from understanding the forces that shape us collectively.
When the middle is embodied, it becomes more than personal balance. It becomes relational steadiness and communal resilience. The way we regulate ourselves influences the rooms we enter. The way we speak shapes the culture we participate in. Sustainable teaching requires sustainable nervous systems, and that requires awareness, practice, and truth.