Yoga and Addiction with Nikki Myers
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Today's guest, Nikki Myers, a yoga therapist and the founder of Y12SR (Yoga of 12-Step Recovery), shares how yoga has helped with her personal struggles with addiction and helped thousands of people through Y12SR.
Even if you've never been touched personally by addiction, her insights and advice apply to anyone who's had to overcome a challenge in life.
We talk about:
* Nikki's personal road to recovery, what she learned along the way, and how yoga helped her heal
* Why an important part of practicing yoga is embracing ALL sides of yourself, and why it's important not to deny or hide the things you're less proud of
* How the 12-step program is similar to yoga and why yoga is such a great complement to the 12 steps
* Nikki and Andrea share their thoughts on the opioid crisis and how, as bad as things are, the good that has come from it. It's forcing government officials and the healthcare establishment to take a look at the emotional side behind the disease of addiction
* What co-dependency really is and how it relates to addiction
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti, and this is episode 120 of Yoga Land. |
| 0:08.0 | Today my guest is Nicky Myers. I have had Nicky Myers on my list of potential guests for so long and I'm so I'm so happy to have her on the |
| 0:17.2 | podcast and to share this episode with you. |
| 0:19.8 | Nicky is a yoga therapist, she's a somatic experiencing practitioner. |
| 0:25.0 | She is a certified addiction recovery specialist. |
| 0:28.8 | She has her MBA. |
| 0:30.2 | And she is the founder of Y12 SR.R. or the Yoga of 12 Step Recovery. |
| 0:36.0 | And this organization was born out of her own personal struggle with addiction, |
| 0:40.0 | which she talks through on the episode. It combines the cognitive |
| 0:45.1 | teachings of 12-step recovery with the somatic teachings of yoga and again you |
| 0:52.0 | know it was born out of her own experience and her own feeling that |
| 0:55.0 | she needed both of these systems in order to prevent relapse and so that's that's |
| 1:01.1 | what she does for thousands of other people. |
| 1:04.2 | As I was preparing for this interview, |
| 1:06.5 | I couldn't help but think about the opioid crisis. |
| 1:10.1 | And I dug up this little something from the former Director of Health and Human Services |
| 1:18.0 | who declared the opioid crisis of public health emergency in 2017 and he says as we think about pain we |
| 1:26.3 | must not forget the types of pain that can hurt the most but are often the |
| 1:30.2 | hardest to treat the pain of loneliness and despair of feeling unloved or |
| 1:34.2 | unvalued the pain of living with a broken heart and I was just really struck by |
| 1:39.0 | that because I don't feel like it's something that often comes out of a government |
| 1:41.8 | official first of all. |
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