Eddie LeShure, CPSS, CADC, RYT, IMHU
Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor, Certified Spiritual Emergence Coach®, Certified Peer Support Specialist, Certified Yoga Instructor
Asheville NC
Our program is based on a simple three-pronged approach, with complementary practices that help you develop resilience, flexibility, self-compassion, and effective mood management. Our approach includes:
Somatic Mindfulness Meditation
You will learn how to tune into your embodied, or felt sense experience. This includes your posture, your breath, the level of tension in your body, and the subtle ways that your emotional experience makes your whole body feel. This tuning-in process helps you befriend your body and mind, and then make wise choices when under stress.
Therapeutic Movement
You will learn Therapeutic Movement, an evidence-based healing program of gentle, body-centered movement, designed to reclaim and revitalize bodies suffering from trauma, addiction, injury, or illness. It is appropriate for all fitness levels.
Integrative Breathwork
You will learn breathing techniques that calm the body and clear the mind. This practice is powerfully effective for working with addiction, trauma, depression, and anxiety. This can strengthen your immune system and increase your sense of aliveness and overall ease.
We offer customized, holistic online support tailored to your individual needs and goals. We focus on the whole of you – mind, body, and spirit – so that every part of you is on board and synchronized for recovery.
I have learned through the simple, daily practices of yoga, meditation and breathwork, as well as intentional use of entheogens, to be gentle with myself and utilize self-awareness self-care practices for balance and wellness, accepting myself as both fully human and fully divine.
I am a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC), Certified Yoga Instructor (RYT 200), Certified Spiritual Emergence Coach® (IMHU), Meditation Teacher, Certified Peer Support Specialist (CPSS), Breathwork Facilitator, and trained NAMI Family Support Group Facilitator. I am also a person in long-term recovery with a professional background that includes 8 years of training, supervision and direct client contact in addiction counseling. I am a trauma-survivor and been through spiritual emergency. My primary passion is bringing trauma-sensitive, evidence-based, somatic mindfulness, movement and breathing practices to those 1) experiencing spiritual emergency, 2) recovering from substance misuse and eating disorders, and 3) those wanting to prepare for, experience, and integrate a psychedelic experience.
My personal journey took me deep into the throes of active addiction and incarceration on a drug arrest, and my two years behind bars were mostly spent in the notorious Attica Prison where I survived a rebellion in 1971 that killed 43 inmates and employees. As a trauma survivor, my personal healing and recovery and how I work with others has always been guided by deep understanding and compassion. Since becoming a counselor, I have taught and led groups in numerous treatment and recovery facilities and guided numerous series classes, workshops, and retreats. I regularly present workshops at conferences addressing addiction recovery, plus teach mindfulness practices to professionals within mental health facilities. I have worked with many individuals one-on-one, both online and face-to-face.
I began doing yoga in the early 70s while in prison and began meditating in the early ’80s. Since then I have lived in two Buddhist retreat centers and studied, practiced, and participated in numerous retreats in Asia, Europe, and the U.S. with a wide range of Eastern and Western meditation teachers, including H.H. Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh, spending the equivalent of two years in retreat setting.
Trauma-Sensitive Mindful Movement, Somatic Mindfulness Meditation, Integrative Breathwork, Psychedelic Preparation and Integration, Spiritual Emergence(Y) Integration and Support, One-on-One Mentoring