Main description:

By offering an empowering personal program of self-care in recovery, this book provides guidance for everyone affected by widespread modern 'addictiveness'.

The book explores Ayurveda's understanding of both the problem of our 'one addiction process' and its solution. It offers holistic techniques that enhance any of the traditional recovery pathways and beyond any of the common diet/exercise dogma from mainstream media. It covers the stress/addictive tendencies of the doshic types, and links this to how stress affects metabolism, the main determinant of health. The program offered in the book is an integration of the philosophy, psychology and physical practices of Yoga and Ayurveda to help people shift their life trajectory.

With Yoga of Recovery, author Durga Leela presents a complete resource for working with individuals recovering from addiction.

Contents:

1. The root of all disease is spiritual. 2. Ayurveda and recovery. 3. The Gunas. 4. The Gunas - stages of healing. 5. A new operating system - our elemental self. 6 Misuse of the senses. 7. Daily routine solutions. 8. Constitution - principles before personalities. 9. Gunas and Doshas. 10. Sattva, Guna and the Doshas. 11. State of imbalance - symptomatic concerns. 12. Effects of time and environment. 13. Digestion under stress. 14. Addictive tendencies of the Doshas. 15. Counselling the Dosha types. 16. Detoxification of the mind.