Recovery Café Valley of the Sun

Circle
2024-06-15 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-06-22 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-06-29 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-07-06 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-07-13 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-07-20 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-07-27 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-08-03 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Phoenix)

HeART Journeys – Art for Everyone
2024-06-15 12:30 - 13:30
HeART Journeys – Art for Everyone Saturday, June 22nd 12:30-1:30
Creative expression is good for the soul. Art can express our thoughts and feelings in color and images, rather than words. Art can also be an experience in relaxation and mindfulness, encouraging us to be in the present moment. As we paint and draw and color, we can learn to be comfortable with imperfection, and with the process rather than the outcome. No art experience necessary!

La Sua Speranza – A Group Meditation
2024-06-22 10:00 - 10:30, 2024-06-29 10:00 - 10:30, 2024-07-06 10:00 - 10:30, 2024-07-13 10:00 - 10:30, 2024-07-20 10:00 - 10:30, 2024-07-27 10:00 - 10:30, 2024-08-03 10:00 - 10:30, 2024-08-10 10:00 - 10:30 and 1 more date
La Sua Speranza – A Group Meditation
“I meditate so that my mind cannot complicate my life” – Sri Chinmoy. This quote rings true to what meditation can do to help uncomplicate your life. Meditation can also reduce stress and anxiety while bringing your focus to the present rather than constantly worrying about the past or what’s going to happen in the future. Come join us and experience what meditation can do for you.

Body and Brain Yoga Tai Chi
2024-06-22 12:30 - 13:30
Body and Brain Yoga Tai Chi Saturday, June 15th 12:30-1:30
Body and Brain Yoga Tai Chi is a Korean holistic approach to health, that improves flexibility, strength, and circulation, through healing the mind and body. This class will include stretching, breathing, and posture exercises to recharge your body and clear the mind. The class will provide principles to help you maintain a positive and productive lifestyle.

Using Essential Oils and Aromatherapy in Addiction Recovery
2024-06-29 12:30 - 13:30
Using Essential Oils and Aromatherapy in Addiction Recovery Saturday, June 29th 12:30-1:30
Essential oils are plant extracts. They can be extracted from flowers, herbs, and trees. Aromatherapy is the practice of using these extracts for a therapeutic purpose. When it comes to recovery, essential oils can offer an additional boost of support when managing feelings of stress, anxiety, and depression. Come and learn the uses for different oils and how they differ from artificial fragrances.

Qi Gong
2024-07-06 12:30 - 13:30
Qigong (pronounced chee-gong) is an ancient Chinese exercise which is actually a martial art that coordinates controlled breathing and movement exercises. It can harmonize, strengthen, and have a healing effect on the functioning of all the internal organs and bodily systems. It increases the supply and flow of energy throughout the body, can have a variety of rejuvenating effects and is believed to increase longevity, and it induces calm mental and emotional states. A series of movements called Fire Flower opens the energy centers in a specific order to bring overall calm to the body and mind as well as bring awareness to your energy and universal energy.

Boundaries or Burnout?
2024-07-13 12:30 - 13:30
Boundaries or Burnout?
This is a class about noticing the body and allowing it to tell you about its limits. It is a must for anyone who says, ‘yes’ to a personal deficit, who is physically uncomfortable saying ‘no’, who believes they can defy human limits and save the world, who feels guilty when they can’t make others happy, who takes on too much, or who believes kindness is synonymous with service. This class is sure to bring up a few things you’ve been trying to ignore, but don’t worry. You’ll have the support you need to uncover and face the reasons boundary keeping is so dang difficult.
Class presented by Michelle Stiffler, certified personal trainer, trauma specialist, and somatic coach.

Volunteer Meeting
2024-07-16 10:00 - 11:00

How to Regulate Your Nervous System
2024-07-20 12:30 - 13:30
How to Regulate Your Nervous System
We will discuss a brief overview of the nervous system, how it interacts with our body and potential effects on daily life. Nervous system hyperarousal can come from stress and trauma and may show up as irritability, anxiety, inability to concentrate, and more. We will go over practices to help with nervous system regulation. The goal is to have a better understanding of what our body is doing and how to help keep it stable through life’s ups and downs.

HeART Journeys – Art for Everyone
2024-07-27 12:30 - 13:30
HeART Journeys – Art for Everyone
Creative expression is good for the soul. Art can express our thoughts and feelings in color and images, rather than words. Art can also be an experience in relaxation and mindfulness, encouraging us to be in the present moment. As we paint and draw and color, we can learn to be comfortable with imperfection, and with the process rather than the outcome. No art experience necessary!

Boundaries or Burnout?
2024-08-03 12:30 - 13:30
Boundaries or Burnout? Saturday, August 3rd 12:30-1:30
Join us for a conversation about noticing the body and allowing it to tell you about its limits. This class is a must for anyone who says ‘yes’ too often, who is physically uncomfortable saying ‘no’, who believes they can defy human limits and save the world, who feels guilty when they can’t make others happy, who takes on too much, or who believes kindness is synonymous with service. Let’s uncover and face the reasons boundary keeping is so dang difficult.

Circles
2024-08-10 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-08-17 11:00 - 12:00

Body and Brain Yoga Tai Chi
2024-08-10 12:30 - 13:30
Body and Brain Yoga Tai Chi Saturday, August 10th 12:30-1:30
Body and Brain Yoga Tai Chi is a Korean holistic approach to health, that improves flexibility, strength, and circulation, through healing the mind and body. This class will include stretching, breathing, and posture exercises to recharge your body and clear the mind. The class will provide principles to help you maintain a positive and productive lifestyle.

Addiction and the Brain
2024-08-17 12:30 - 13:30
Addiction and the Brain Saturday, August 17th 12:30-1:30
The disease model of addiction, which arose in the 1950s to counteract the view of addiction as a moral failing, is based on the observation that addiction involves biological changes in the brain. The brain alterations change the way the brain works—notably in the dopamine system—to create the craving, the progressive inability to exert control, and other dysfunctions associated with substance use.
