Health Coaching with Trina

01/30/2024

Join us Monday Feb 5th for Y12SR, Recovery YogAAh at Be Hot Yoga Atlanta at 7pm-8:30pm.
Our topic for discussion is ROMANCE!
Our Guided Meditation will be the Loving Kindness Meditation and we will be opening and healing our Heart Chakra and Sacral Chakras during our Yin Yoga Practice.

01/30/2024

Y12SR - Yoga of the 12 Step Recovery – Monday February 5, 2024!

Save the Date! Monday Feb 5th at 7pm -8:30 pm for a 12 Step based discussion and yoga practice at Be Hot Yoga, C-Teen Room, 730 Ponce De Leon Place, Atlanta GA 30306.

No need to sign up or register. We meet the first Monday of every month

Our topic this month is ROMANCE. So much to talk about in our discussion about relationships and recovery! When we get into a 12 step recovery program, many times we are told not to get into a relationship for a year…One Speaker likes to joke, “No one knows if that works because No one has ever done that”. Love relationships can be a way to grow spiritually and as long as we don’t drink or use, can be help us grow, however, many of us have found that S*x and Love addiction is a part of our story and needs to be healed.

Our guided meditation will be the Loving Kindness Meditation.
May I be safe, May I be happy, May I be healthy, May I be peaceful and at ease.
May You be Safe, May You be Happy, May You be healthy, May you be peaceful and at ease.
May We be Safe, May We be Hapy, May We be Healthy, May We be peaceful and at ease.

Each Y12SR session includes a group sharing circle, modeled from the meetings of the 12-Step addiction recovery programs, and a Yin Style yoga class, guided by its theme “The Issues Live in Our Tissues.”

This is an OPEN and INCLUSIVE group. All A’s are welcome: Y12SR is open to ANYONE AND EVERYONE dealing with their own addictive behavior or affected by the addictive behavior of others.

Please wear comfy clothing and bring a yoga mat! Parking is free during session – no need to register on parking app

Meetings/classes are by donation only. All Donations go to Jeff’s Place Atlanta, a non-profit, dedicated to educating and providing support to those suffering from addiction.

Trina Labenski, Y12SR Leader/Spaceholder
Contact: tlabenski@comcast.net

01/01/2024

"If you have a resentment you want to be free of, if you will pray for the person or the thing that you resent, you will be free. If you will ask in prayer for everything you want for yourself to be given to them, you will be free. Ask for their health, their prosperity, their happiness, and you will be free. Even when you don't really want it for them and your prayers are only words, and you don't mean it, go ahead and do it anyway. Do it every day for two weeks, and you will find you have come to mean it and to want it for them, and you will realize that where you used to feel bitterness and resentment and hatred, you now feel compassionate understanding and love."
From the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous p 552,

Y12SR - Yoga of 12 Step Recovery meets tonight at 7pm - 8:30pm at Be Hot Yoga, Atlanta.
Topic is Forgiveness.

12/29/2023

In Recovery, we often find ourselves harboring resentments that if not addressed, can lead to a drink, drug, su***de etc. With this at our backs, we wonder how we can forgive others including ourselves. We find that we cannot bypass FEELINGS. We have tried so hard not to feel for so long. Slowly, with the help of others, we begin to feel our emotions and release the venom that is trapped in our minds and our bodies.
Compassion is usually the final step before forgiveness is possible. We see how that person that we feel hurt us has also been harmed and is usually acting on subconscious patterns and beliefs.

The book/movie The Shack is a beautiful example of forgiveness. We do not need to condone another's behavior, or be around that person or pretend it did not happen. We just need to realize that the abuser was most likely abused themselves or have mental illness or addition etc. But for the Grace of God, there go I.

We also realize that many things we condemn others for, we have been guilty of the same things. Finally, we see that our vibration attracts people, events, places, to us and we are responsible 100% for our reality. We are no longer victims.
Living from a heart space frequency changes the world.
Violence begets violence.
Forgiveness...Simple but not easy.

12/26/2023

Y12SR - Yoga of the 12 Step Recovery – New Years DAY, Jan 1, 2024!

Save the Date! Monday January 1, 2024 on NEW YEARS DAY at 7pm -8:30 pm for a 12 Step based discussion and yoga practice at Be Hot Yoga, C-Teen Room, 730 Ponce De Leon Place, Atlanta GA 30306.

No need to sign up or register. We meet the first Monday of every month

Our topic this month is FORGIVENESS. Our guided meditation will center on HO’OPONOPONO a beautiful Hawaiian Prayer for forgiveness of oneself or others. “I’m Sorry, Please Forgive me, Thank you, I love you.

Our reading for discussion will come from the Big Book of Alcoholics Pages 551-552 suggesting that we pray for the individual we have a resentment towards for 2 weeks. Forgiveness does NOT mean we need to have contact with that person, it does NOT mean that person is right, it does NOT mean that justice should not be served. Instead, it means we can understand, given the upbringing, trauma, mental illness, substance abuse, generational patterns etc how that person could be sick and we have compassion for that. Forgiveness frees us from the dark thoughts, the anger and the hardening we live with and then put out into the world. It allows us to repair, restore or walk away from something if it is not healthy. Many of us feel we also need to forgive ourselves when we wake up and realize that we are responsible.

We can start 2024 fresh by being willing to forgive. See …. you Monday!

Each Y12SR session includes a group sharing circle, modeled from the meetings of the 12-Step addiction recovery programs, and a Yin Style yoga class, guided by its theme “The Issues Live in Our Tissues.”

This is an OPEN and INCLUSIVE group. All A’s are welcome: Y12SR is open to ANYONE AND EVERYONE dealing with their own addictive behavior or affected by the addictive behavior of others.

Please wear comfy clothing and bring a yoga mat! Parking is free during session – no need to register on parking app

Meetings/classes are by donation only. All Donations go to Jeff’s Place Atlanta, a non-profit, dedicated to educating and providing support to those suffering from addiction.

Trina Labenski, Y12SR Leader/Spaceholder
Contact: tlabenski@comcast.net

06/21/2023

Kat, my amazing daughter is home from her first trip as a white water rafting guide on the Grand Canyon! The ultimate goal of most river guides!!!! She is so badass and home in nature. Completely self taught and self made with skills and abilities beyond most people. This is her 4th summer guiding, she was a White water rafting guide on the Arkansas and Colorado Rivers previously. She is the bravest, coolest most compassionate woman I know. Love you kat! So inspired by you every day!

03/10/2022

Wow

02/21/2022

From Each Day a New Beginning…Daily Meditations for Women by Karen Casey. Feb 20th entry. “… We soon know that all situations can be met. All experiences can be survived. Avoidance is no longer our technique for survival. “

02/12/2022

Chris came in to Icebox Cryotherapy Midtown for the full treatment today. He did cryotherapy, leg compression, and a facial with Solange. He’s looking to reduce inflammation, help with a shoulder injury, and improve overall health. As a former athlete, Chris knows the value of recovery and self care! And of course it was a treat for me to have him visit me at work!!!

01/20/2022

01/20/2022

What do Gluten Free Vegans eat anyway???!!!
For an easy take to work lunch it is Strive Dragon Bowl I bought prepackaged from Nuts n Berries Grocery in Decatur!
Yum it has marinated tempeh chunks, broccoli, beets, quinoa, sprouted lentils and red peppers. It has a yummy tamari tahini dressing. Oh yeah some sweet potato chunks were in there too! Strive is located in the Sandy Springs area of Atlanta and has gluten-free and plant-based prepackaged meals that places like nuts and berries carry or you can order from them directly. I love a lot of their products and this is one of my favorite. All I had to do was bring a fork to work. It was hearty and filling and super healthy but full of taste!