18 Jun 2026 09:00
Yoga for Addiction Recovery: Community Conversations with Caroline Wybar
We all have the instinct to distract ourselves from present-moment discomfort, whether we consider ourselves an addict or not. That insight is a powerful starting point for today's conversation on the role yoga can play in addiction recovery.
Host Rachel is joined by returning guest Caroline Wybar—yoga teacher and trainer, and 1000hr Yoga Medicine Therapeutic Specialist. Drawing from both lived experience and extensive research, Caroline shares a compassionate and evidence-informed perspective on addiction and recovery.
She explores the many factors that contribute to addiction and shares how yoga can support recovery by helping practitioners develop self-awareness, resilience, distress tolerance, and a healthier relationship with the present moment.
"We all experience pain and distress and loss and disconnection. We just have different solutions for it." — Caroline Wybar.
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What You'll Learn:
- Defining addiction, clinically versus culturally [2:27]
- Addiction as a solution to pain [4:34]
- Disease or personal choice? Reaching consilience [8:11]
- Secrecy, stigma versus community connection [16:34]
- Caroline's personal recovery story [20:14]
- Yoga tools for recovery [37:52]
- Yoga asana for simplicity and sense of success [41:50]
- Accessible breath work and mindfulness practices [43:57]
- Yoga Medicine Live Online Addictions Yoga Teacher Training [51:49]
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Links Mentioned:
- Watch this episode on YouTube
- Yoga Medicine LIVE Online Addictions Yoga Teacher Training
- Previous Yoga Medicine Podcast Episodes with Caroline Wybar:
- Connect with Caroline Wybar: Facebook | Instagram | Caroline Wybar Yoga | YMO Guest Teacher
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Learn More:
Find the full show notes at YogaMedicine.com/podcast-169.
Learn more about insider tips, online classes or information on our teacher trainings at YogaMedicine.com.
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