Values statements:
- Everyone has the right to set the course of their own recovery journey.
- The body, mind, and spirit know how to heal themselves.
- Each person has unique needs, and that yoga should be tailored to fit your needs and not a cookie cutter approach.
- Diversity is to be celebrated and that yoga will help you own who you are beyond the labels that others may put on you.
- Healing takes time and devotion.
- Yoga is a partnership between student and teacher, a partnership whose main purpose is to help you reach your recovery goals.
- Everyone has the right to feel safe and have their boundaries respected.
- An essential part of recovery is finding your “tribe” so that you will have the support you need outside of class.
- Each person has inherent worth and dignity and the right to love and respect.
- Humans, even teachers, make mistakes, and that together, we can learn from them.
- There is no way to fail at healing.
- The only way to fail is to not try.
- Any yoga provided should be grounded in research that has practical evidence to back it up.
- Everyone has the right to walk away from the healing process if they are not ready and that this is, in fact, sometimes part of the recovery journey.
- You are capable of learning to love and accept yourself.
