Ep 55: Mukunda Chandra das on using yogic techniques to overcome addiction

Welcome to Episode # 55 of The Alcohol & Addiction Podcast and my guest Mukunda Chandra das. Michael Kohan or Mukunda Chandra das (affectionately known as Mukunda) is dedicated to helping his clients and students find balance in all aspects of their lives—emotional, spiritual, mental and physical. Mukunda is a Certified Health and Lifestyle Coach and a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher who works with others to help them restore balance in their lives by helping them to make healthier and more conscious lifestyle choices. True harmony is achieved through developing a balanced cooperation between mind, body and soul. Living in this world can be tough at times, but when we learn simple spiritual tools for healing and maintenance, life can be much easier. Mukunda’s goal is to help clients and students to discover the skills to help them move forward in all areas of their lives. In Fall 2003, after a painful divorce and the continued strain of working long hours in a competitive environment, it was suggested that he take a yoga class as a means to reduce stress. He was immediately enchanted by the beautiful practice of asana yoga and thrilled to find how yogic discipline and philosophy can help a person to live a more peaceful life. After three years of active study, Mukunda met his spiritual mentor (Guru) H.H. Radhanatha Swami. After several years of formal study under his Guru, which included the systematic reading of spiritual texts, dedicated practice of mantra meditation, rising early for morning services, and regulating his cooking and diet, Mukunda received formal initiation into his spiritual lineage in 2013. After seventeen years in the corporate world, Mukunda left his job and moved out of New York City with the goal of becoming a full-time yoga teacher. This proved to be a great challenge, and Mukunda found himself starting over at 38 years old, hardly able to make ends meet. During this time, he became a serious student and practitioner of personal development techniques, which changed his life immensely. In 2014, inspired to teach the approaches that had helped him so deeply, Mukunda received training in Holistic Health and Lifestyle Counseling from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (accredited by SUNY and the American Association of Drugless Practitioners), where he studied a variety of practical coaching methods. With this understanding, he can create completely personalised plans based on your goals to move you toward your ideal vision of health within your unique situation, body, lifestyle, preferences, and resources. To learn more about Mukunda and his teachings head to yourwellnessyogi.com Thanks for listening. Before you go, if you have any questions for Mukunda or me, then please leave them in the comments section on the blog, or you can message me at needyhelper@gmail.com. If you find the AA Podcast a valuable resource, then please tell your friends about it and share the love. You would make me a very happy man indeed if you could rate us on iTunes. Before you go, do you want to join me in the trenches and learn what life is like in the middle of an addiction story? I'm not talking about the part when you are drunk out of your skull and can't remember anything. I'm talking about what comes after you quit. How do you fill the white space? How do you find a new community? How do you find meaning and purpose? If these questions interest you, then buy my new book Needy Helper 2015 Diary Excerpts: A Life After Alcohol. Talking about community, how would you like to become a member of the Needy Helper Hub? It's a new idea to create a constant community, support and continual personal improvement process forever. It's my intention to be online as much as I can to answer any questions you have about your addiction, and to continually update the Hub with training tools, tips and techniques to help you create a whole new life. If that interests you, then click the link below to find out more.