Supplementing the 12-Step Program with Yoga

Author Taylor Hunt is teaching people struggling with addiction a new tool for recovery: Ashtanga Yoga. His charity works with treatment centers, halfway houses, and prisons. Taylor Hunt recently broke his anonymity and published a gritty memoir of his drug addiction, A Way from Darkness. The way out, he found, was the 12-step program coupled with Ashtanga Yoga — a dynamic series of physical poses and breath work — which he now teaches at the center he founded in Columbus, Ohio and around the world. Now, he has quit his successful business and started the Trini Foundation, a charity that supplies free Ashtanga teachers to rehabs and free lessons to people struggling with addiction. So what is it about Ashtanga that transforms lives? And how does it dovetail with the 12 steps? The Fix decided to find out. What is the Trini Foundation? We are teaching people struggling with addiction a new tool for recovery: Ashtanga Yoga. We are working with treatment centers, halfway houses and prisons. Some people come in off the streets and right into yoga and the 12 steps. They might be two months sober or two weeks sober. It’s also happening at our home studio in Columbus where we provide free memberships for people struggling with addiction. It was pretty cool because it changed the feel of our entire community to have those people join us. How does it work? We raise funds for our scholarship program that currently runs in Dallas, Atlanta, Chatanooga and Napa, as well as C...
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