Compassion House
Workshops that promote well-being for body, mind and spirit
Spiritual Workshops & Movement Classes. Yoga. Tai Chi.
Explore the inner journey as pathways of healing and recovery for everyone. Compassion House will provide a valuable piece of the healing journey that will be offered to the recovering residents as part of their customized recovery path.
Compassion House will also be offered to the community for donation, all proceeds will go to Serenity Star Village.
Classes:
- Spiritual Workshops: inner child, freedom from fear, exploring the inner journey
- Movement Classes: Yoga, Tai Chi
- Specialty classes: Recovery and Yoga, Yoga for Children
What is the connection between Recovery and Meditation, and Yoga/Tai Chi?
- Long term recovery – keeping it! Maintaining it! Walking it!
- Healing on all levels: physical, emotional damage done during substance abuse- encouraging self forgiveness, etc
- Reconditioning of brain waves, thought patterns through conditioning of the physical body during yoga, meditation increase in self control and increase in consideration
Meditation and yoga are not only tools for reducing stress while maintaining sobriety and connecting, healing the damage done to the physical body due to substance abuse however yoga encourages was life style through the yamas and niyamas which could be considered parallel to twelve steps of yoga. 
What is Yoga?
- Yoga by definition means “to yoke” “union”
- Yoga the joining together of soul and spirit, mind and body.
- Yoga a sacred series of postures guiding you within, healing the body, opening the heart and releasing the minds chatter.
- The asana, physical practice, is only one aspect of yoga which has spread throughout the U.S.
