Connecting Mind, Body & Soul:
Yoga for Recovery
Presented by Tracy Soos-Walker, LCPC, CADC

 Friday, April 17, 2020 - 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
McHenry County Mental Health Board

 Free: 3 CEUs  (IAODAPCA included) 
                              Intended Audience: Counselors, Case Managers, Therapists, Psychologists,                                  Social Workers, and other mental health professionals.

While yoga is far from a cure for drug and alcohol addiction, incorporating yoga into recovery can help promote a lasting recovery.  

In this experiential workshop participants can expect to learn about Yoga & Recovery and the 8 fold yoga path.  This workshop will include a discussion on yoga and how the practices of yoga can strengthen mental, physical and spiritual wellness of the practitioner.  Workshop participants will leave with 15 Yoga Recovery Practices for home (personal) or office (professional use/strategies to use in session). 

• Opening Experiential Yoga Practice
  
• Yoga 101
• Meditations for Recovery
• Parallels Between Yoga and 12 Step Recovery
• How Yoga can Strengthen Spiritual, Mental and Physical Well Being
• The Roll of Yoga in SUD
• Mindfulness and Relapse Prevention Strategies
• Yoga & Meditation in Action
• Forms Yoga & 15 take home Yoga for Recovery applications
• Closing Practices
• Q & A

Presenter: Tracy Soos-Walker, LCPC, CADC 

Tracy is the owner & operator of Nurture Yoga & Massage.  She is also, a Master’s level, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, Certified Addictions Counselor, and Certified Yoga and Meditation Instructor trained through the Himalayan Yoga & Meditation Center and member of Yoga Alliance as an E-RYT. Tracy also has specialized training in teaching gentle yoga, yin yoga, yoga for healthy joints and glands, hot yoga, prenatal yoga and both hatha and vinyasa flow and yoga nidra meditation.

Tracy truly believes in nurturing one's soul. Tracy has done extensive research on the benefits of using yoga to cultivate the life you want and deserve and its healing properties when dealing with stress, anxiety and an overabundance of emotions. Her approach the yogic process is individualized and client-centered.  Tracy believes happiness can be attained and optimism can be learned. Tracy's approach includes teaching her clients about the body-mind connection and she works with the “whole person."  Tracy believes that yoga is a tool to help individuals find their own path to the mind-body-spirit connection. Tracy is known to be very respectful of each person’s individual needs and situation while working through the process of change and growth.  

Tracy strongly believes, that people are not what happened to them, they are what they choose to become, an inspiration by Carl Jung.