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Grounde Recover Series

​Recovery is not simply about changing behavior. It is also about understanding the patterns that shape it.

Grounded Recovery is a professionally developed seven-week curriculum created specifically for behavioral health and recovery settings. Through psychoeducation, mindful movement, breathwork, meditation, and structured reflection, participants explore how stress, perception, habits, emotions, and the nervous system influence the way they respond to themselves and the world around them.

Rather than teaching yoga as a collection of postures, Grounded uses movement as an experiential learning tool—turning concepts into experiences participants can observe, understand, and apply.

 

Grounded is education experienced through movement.

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A Seven-Week Psychoeducational Mindfulness & Movement Curriculum for Behavioral Health and Recovery

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Helping clients understand the relationship between body, mind, habits, and behavior—and develop practical skills for long-term recovery.

Why Grounded Recovery?

Many individuals entering treatment have spent years responding to stress, emotion, and difficult experiences automatically.

They may understand what they want to change without fully understanding the patterns that influence their reactions, habits, and choices.

Grounded Recovery bridges that gap.

Each session introduces accessible concepts drawn from mindfulness, psychology, neuroscience, and recovery science, then gives participants an opportunity to experience those concepts through movement, breathing, meditation, discussion, and reflection.

The goal is not simply to help participants feel better in the moment.

It is to help them understand themselves better—and develop greater awareness and choice in how they respond.

What Makes grounded different

Grounded Recovery is not a yoga class with educational content added.

It is an educational curriculum experienced through movement.

Movement becomes a way to explore:

  • How the body responds to stress

  • How attention influences experience

  • How perception shapes reaction

  • How habits become automatic

  • How awareness creates space for choice

  • How resilience and psychological flexibility develop

  • How values and intentional choices shape life beyond treatment

 

Participants don’t simply hear about these concepts.They experience them.

That connection between education and direct experience is at the heart of Grounded Recovery.

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The Seven Week Journey

Each session builds intentionally upon the previous one, moving from foundational awareness toward resilience and intentional living.

01 — Understanding the Practice

Why yoga and mindfulness?

Building a foundation for awareness, movement, breath, and nervous system education.

02 — Understanding Stress

What happens inside me when I’m stressed?

Exploring stress responses, regulation, and the relationship between the nervous system, thoughts, and behavior.

03 — Rebuilding Trust in the Body

Can I trust my body again?

Developing body awareness and interoception while learning to recognize and interpret internal signals.

04 — Seeing Clearly

Am I reacting to what happened—or to the meaning my mind has created?

Exploring perception, interpretation, habitual thought patterns, and the space between experience and reaction.

05 — Coming Home to Yourself

Who am I beneath the stories I’ve learned to believe about myself?

Exploring identity, self-talk, shame, self-compassion, and the beliefs that shape how we see ourselves.

 

06 — Building Resilience

How do I find my way back when life becomes difficult?

Developing resilience, psychological flexibility, self-compassion, and strategies for navigating setbacks.

 

07 — Living with Intention

Who do I want to become?

Integrating the curriculum through values, purpose, supportive relationships, healthy routines, and intentional choices beyond treatment.

Who do I want to become?

Integrating the curriculum through values, purpose, supportive relationships, healthy routines, and intentional choices beyond treatment.

Whats Included

Grounded Recovery provides a complete, structured curriculum rather than a collection of individual classes.

Each 60-minute session includes:

  • Psychoeducation introducing the week’s core concept

  • Evidence-informed discussion and teaching

  • Breathwork and nervous system practices

  • Accessible mindful movement

  • Guided meditation or integration practice

  • Participant reflection

  • Structured worksheets and self-assessment

  • Clinical reflection questions to support discussion

 

The curriculum is designed to be progressive, accessible, and adaptable across a range of behavioral health and recovery environments.

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Designed for Behavioral Health & Recovery

Grounded Recovery is designed for organizations serving individuals across the continuum of treatment and recovery, including:

Residential Treatment · Detox · PHP · IOP · Mental Health Programs · Sober Living · Recovery Programs · Trauma-Informed Settings · Veterans Programs · Recovery Community Organizations

 

No previous yoga experience is required.

 

The curriculum is designed to be accessible across ages, experience levels, and physical abilities.

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A Program Built to Extend Beyond the Treatment Setting

A Program Built to Extend Beyond the Treatment Setting

Grounded Recovery is designed to give participants concepts and practices they can continue using after a session—and after treatment.

Because lasting recovery involves more than changing behavior.

It begins with understanding the person behind it.

Access Grounded Recovery

Grounded Recovery is available as a structured program for behavioral health and recovery organizations.

Organizations with access can log in to the Grounded Recovery program library and curriculum materials.

Interested in bringing Grounded Recovery to your organization?

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