Suzula Bidon’s hippie parents named her after a word they found in the bylines of a Grateful Dead album. Growing up in the woods of Wisconsin in a counterculture lifestyle, Suzula struggled with isolation and depression all through her childhood. This led her to self-medicating with gateway drugs like alcohol and tobacco and ended with heroin and methamphetamines. Her addiction … [Read more...]
SHAIR 172: Recovery 2.0 with Tommy Rosen
How can a person can get from a rock bottom life in addiction to an extraordinary life in sobriety? Just listen to Tommy Rosen’s story of true transformation. Not only will Tommy be celebrating 27 years of sobriety, he is the founder of Recovery 2.0, a yoga teacher, and an author. He’s built a mecca for recovery and has created an enormous resource for people who want to get clean and sober … [Read more...]
SHAIR 139: Social Anxiety, Self-Image, and Addiction with Sasha Tozzi
Sasha Tozzi is a recovery lifestyle coach, a Y12SR (Yoga for 12 Step Recovery) instructor, a Reiki practitioner, and a writer. She helps individuals with physical and emotional sobriety, self-sabotage, and codependent relationships. As a teenager, Sasha suffered from clinical depression and social anxiety. When she found alcohol, she thought it was the answer to all her problems. Later, she … [Read more...]
SHAIR 137: Yoga for Internal Healing from Addiction with Kyczy Hawk
Kyczy Hawk was raised by an alcoholic mother who was incapable of taking care of the family. She graduated early so she could dive head-first into the counter-culture, drug-filled world of 1960s San Fransisco. She became an alcoholic and an IV drug user, and let herself be abused by men to the point where she had but one thread of dignity left. That last thread brought her to Alcoholics Anonymous … [Read more...]
SHAIR 94: “Balance and Breathe ” with Esther Nagle, Beating Addiction through Yoga!
Esther Nagle joins us today on The SHAIR Podcast. Esther is the founder of Balance and Breathe Recovery Support through Yoga. Esther spent most of her adult life living with addiction and mental illness and has come out the other side older, wiser, happier, and free. She is also the Author of Bent Back into Shape, Beating Addiction through Yoga. Esther Nagle spent years of her … [Read more...]
TSP 068: “The Scorpion Pose” with Yancy Scot Schwartz, the Spiritual Gangster!
Yancy Scot Schwartz took his first class in the Dominican Republic while on a skate tour. He initially loved yoga solely because it improved his skateboarding. In 2008, at the encouragement of the owner, Yancy attended the Yoga to the People 200 hour Teacher Certification. He was then sent out to open and build Yoga to the People in San Francisco in 2009. In 2011 he moved back to New York where he … [Read more...]
BLAB 01: Focus on Meditation – Sobriety, Recovery and Beyond
On today's Episode of The SHAIR Podcast our focus will be on meditation. Our featured guest will be my wife Marcela Diaz and she will be answering questions from our listeners that would like tips on how to get the most out of their own meditation practice. Michael Hilton, Stephanie Schilling and I host a BLAB online meeting every other Sunday called Sobriety, Recovery and Beyond and I have … [Read more...]
SHAIR 47: Dope Sick with Cole Chance – What would you do with a Second Chance? From Heroin Addiction to Hope and Recovery!
Listen to Cole’s story now! SHOW NOTES: Cole Chance, now 2 years clean takes us through 16 years of the most gut wrenching Heroin/Cocaine Drug abuse imaginable for any human being and finally shares with us her inspirational journey into Recovery! Today Cole is a Yoga Instructor, a Y12SR Yoga instructor, performs Thai Massage and a world traveler who takes her message of hope and recovery … [Read more...]
024: Nikki Myers “Y12SR” The Yoga of 12 Step Recovery shares 40 years of drug abuse, alcoholism, relapse and recovery!
On today’s Episode of The SHAIR Podcast we have a very special Guest, Nikki Myers the founder of Y12SR the Yoga of 12 Step Recovery. Today Nikki celebrates 15 years clean and shares with us her amazing battle with addiction and inspirational journey into recovery. In this Episode we do a deep dive into relapse prevention that combines 12 step recovery with the practice of yoga, Nikki drops some … [Read more...]
