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Addiction can affect every aspect of life, leaving you feeling disconnected from your personal values, identity and sense of self.
Asana Lodge is a private drug and alcohol rehab that provides bespoke, clinically led care. We support spirituality and addiction recovery alongside evidence-based treatment, allowing you to explore meaning, values, connection and personal growth without replacing clinical care.
We also offer secular and faith-specific approaches. Contact our admissions team to discuss your recovery preferences confidentially.
Spirituality is different for everyone. For one person, it can be a firm belief in a god from an organised religion. To another, it could be a strong connection with nature or a belief in something greater than themselves.
During treatment, addiction recovery and spirituality may involve you reconnecting with meaning and purpose, connecting with others and rediscovering hope.
How you view spirituality is unique to you. Spiritual addiction recovery is there to help you find that connection that allows you to grow and leave addiction behind.
Faith and addiction can be closely linked for some people. Spirituality or spiritual practices may help some:
Asana Lodge is not a residential spiritual rehab per se. Instead, we can help put purposeful spirituality into a personalised treatment plan. This means that your bespoke treatment programme can include:
All this can be included and much more. Though it should be remembered that our residential staff are spiritual teachers, clergy or religious authorities, but addiction recovery specialists.
Asana Lodge is a residential, evidence-based treatment centre offering personalised programmes for drug and alcohol addiction. Our wide range of treatments is tailored around our clients’ needs, with spiritual and holistic support sitting alongside clinical treatment.
Before beginning treatment. You’ll undergo an assessment to finalise your treatment plan. We’ll need to know about an array of information, including:
Before participating in therapy, you’ll need to undergo detoxification to end your physical dependence on your substance.
Your detox programme may involve:
This is a serious clinical portion of recovery where spiritual practices cannot replace medical withdrawal management. Withdrawal has to be managed because abrupt stopping of substances like benzodiazepines and alcohol carries serious risks.
A range of individual therapies may be used to help you explore Causes and patterns of substance use, coping strategies, trauma and identity. If beneficial, you may discuss spiritual or existential concerns.
It’s important to remember that our therapists and counsellors are recovery professionals and will not direct you towards a certain belief system.
Sessions with your peers can help you feel less alone, practise being more open, give and receive guidance and develop accountability.
You may take part in:
No matter what you take part in, groups will respect different religious, spiritual and secular perspectives.
Therapies such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), stress management and trauma and abuse counselling are used to help you examine the thoughts, emotions and behaviours associated with substance use.
You’ll also work on learning healthier coping mechanisms for when you leave rehab.
If you feel physically better, your mind and emotions have an easier time following. You’ll be more energised and willing to participate fully in therapy and recovery.
At Asana Lodge, you’ll gain access to:
Being at a holistic rehab not only treats you when you are there but also prepares you for what comes after. At Asana Lodge, we’ll help you prepare for life after rehab, helping you to:
Having purpose and motivation through strengthening recovery efforts, but they need to fuel learned practical relapse-prevention skills.
Spiritual healing from addiction does not mean that spirituality can medically cure you. When we talk about spiritual healing, we are referring to the emotional growth, reconnection and the process of rebuilding a meaningful life that spiritual practices can support.
During recovery, rebuilding your self-respect, reconnecting with values and developing a more hopeful sense of identity take place alongside appropriate clinical treatment. Achieving these can give your recovery more meaning and push you on, but spirituality cannot work alone.
At Asana Lodge, we know that addiction can’t be removed through prayer, but also that people need to have something to drive them to want to achieve long-term recovery.
If you are looking for a spiritual rehab, you might be expecting meditation and mindfulness.
At Asana Lodge, we find these practices helpful to recovery because they can help:
Meditation does not need to be religious or spiritual. You can practice it on whatever terms you wish.
We also understand that meditation is not suitable or comfortable for everyone at every stage of treatment. Those experiencing significant trauma, withdrawal or mental health symptoms may require more careful clinical guidance.
Spirituality does not mean belief in a god or some external force. It can just be a word to describe when you feel connection, awe, meaning or personal growth.
At Asana Lodge, we allow you time to partake in activities that can support this type of connection, giving you the space to reflect.
These types of activities include:
If you are looking for twelve-step spiritual recovery, Asana Lodge does promote the principles during and after residential treatment.
Twelve-step recovery is a model that includes themes such as:
The concept of surrendering to a higher power can mean something different for everyone who comes across it.
A higher power can mean:
If you are agnostic or an atheist, it can instead mean:
Yes. Some atheists and agnostics use twelve-step principles, while others discard them altogether, using alternative recovery approaches.
If you have any questions or concerns about twelve-step language, talk to the team before admission.
Twelve-step recovery uses spiritual language, but it doesn’t belong to any particular organised religion.
At Asana Lodge, we consider personal religious preferences, prayer and dietary arrangements when it comes to creating a treatment plan.
You can follow your faith within rehab, and are free to discuss with the staff:
If you’re looking for specific information about faith-sensitive treatment, head to our faith pages:
Spirituality is personal. Your programme will start with a no pressure conversation about your clinical needs, personal beliefs and the kind of recovery you want to build.
From there, we’ll consider many factors to form your treatment plan, including:
If you’re looking for a spiritual drug and alcohol rehab, privacy and confidentiality may be major concerns.
You may have other concerns like:
Asana Lodge is a CQC-registered rehab, meaning that we uphold a demanded professional standard where confidentiality and privacy are at the core of the services we provide. That means your spiritual beliefs or lack of belief are treated as personal information.
From your initial enquiry through residential treatment and aftercare, nothing about you or your treatment will be revealed to anyone without your express consent or unless we have to uphold specific clinical, legal and safeguarding responsibilities.
For more information, speak privately with our admissions team.
Mental health can lead to addiction and vice versa. Those going through addiction also experience:
These issues can cause spiritual or existential questions that cause great distress. Any spiritual discussion should take place within a safe, clinically responsible framework, as some symptoms of mental illness, like hallucinations, mania and delusions, may be wrongly viewed as spiritual issues.
Asana Lodge not only treats addiction but also co-occurring mental health concerns, including depression, anxiety and stress-related problems as part of a comprehensive dual-diagnosis treatment programme.
It’s estimated that between 40% and 60% of those suffering from addiction experience a relapse.
It is not inevitable, though. Many assign closely held personal meaning, such as spirituality, to their relapse-prevention plan. These values can help you move beyond stopping your addiction and look towards building a more fulfilling life.
Spirituality can help you with:
These can be effective pillars of relapse prevention. You need to, though, have a clear plan that involves:
Recovery doesn’t end at rehab. You can still practice spiritual and faith-based addiction recovery after leaving residential treatment.
We provide a year of free structured aftercare, helping you form a recovery plan and allowing you to attend regular group support meetings.
You can also continue to implement spiritual practices into structured aftercare efforts like ongoing therapy, such as:
Asana Lodge may be the choice for those seeking spiritual healing from addiction. We aim to deal with a person as a whole, helping you leave us in a physically, psychologically and emotionally better place than when you arrived.
People choose Asana Lodge because we offer:
All this happens within our recently renovated 22-bed centre located amongst the rolling hills of Yardley Gobion, complete with premium facilities such as a gym, communal lounge and private grounds.
The Asana Lodge admission process is thorough but straightforward.
You or a family member can call the admissions team at 01908 489 421.
We’ll ask for information including drugs or alcohol used, previous treatment, severity of addiction, physical health, mental health and immediate risks.
You’ll have the opportunity to discuss any important considerations such as your religious and spiritual beliefs, dietary requirements, personal boundaries, family involvement and attitude towards twelve-step recovery.
The clinical team will use this information to decide your detoxification, therapy and wider treatment needs.
We’ll then recommend a treatment programme based around your clinical needs and preferences.
Once your admission is complete, you’ll arrive and begin your structured residential treatment at Asana Lodge.
During your stay with us, our aftercare team will help you prepare for long-term recovery beyond rehab.
If you’re looking for a private spiritual rehab in the UK or a personalised treatment programme, Asana Lodge can help.
Get in touch today on 01908 489 421 to confidentially discuss clinical treatment, spiritual preferences and any concerns about religion, twelve-step recovery or a higher power that you may have.
Spiritual addiction recovery involves exploring meaning, values, connection and personal growth alongside clinical addiction treatment. For some, that may mean religious involvement, but it does not have to.
Asana Lodge is a clinically led residential addiction treatment centre, not a religious or spiritual retreat. We accept all people, though, so your spirituality, religion or secular outlook can be considered when creating your personalised treatment programme.
No. Clients should not need to believe in God or follow a religion to receive treatment.
Even spiritual addiction treatment will focus on clinical, psychological and practical recovery. If you have any concerns about the presence of religion and spirituality in recovery, talk to the admissions team, and they will explain how spiritual and twelve-step elements currently feature within Asana Lodge's programme and what changes can be made for you.
Religious practices, prayer, diet and other requirements can be discussed before admission. As long as arrangements are practically and clinically possible, you'll be able to practise them.
Any contact with your faith leader may be considered when requested.
To some, personal values and a sense of purpose centred on spirituality may strengthen motivation, but this is person-dependent.
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