Yoga for Addiction Recovery: Community Conversations with Caroline Wybar

We all have the instinct to distract ourselves from present-moment discomfort, whether we consider ourselves an addict or not. That insight is a powerful starting point for today's conversation on the role yoga can play in addiction recovery.

Host Rachel is joined by returning guest Caroline Wybar—yoga teacher and trainer, and 1000hr Yoga Medicine Therapeutic Specialist. Drawing from both lived experience and extensive research, Caroline shares a compassionate and evidence-informed perspective on addiction and recovery.

She explores the many factors that contribute to addiction and shares how yoga can support recovery by helping practitioners develop self-awareness, resilience, distress tolerance, and a healthier relationship with the present moment.

"We all experience pain and distress and loss and disconnection. We just have different solutions for it." — Caroline Wybar.

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What You'll Learn:

Defining addiction, clinically versus culturally [2:27]

Addiction as a solution to pain [4:34]

Disease or personal choice? Reaching consilience [8:11]

Secrecy, stigma versus community connection [16:34]

Caroline's personal recovery story [20:14]

Yoga tools for recovery [37:52]