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December 1985

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I started practicing yoga about the same time I found AA. Like a lot of other drunks, I was looking for an easy way out--to be happy all the time and to escape. I dove into my yoga disciplines head first, giving AA a back seat in what I thought my Cadillac to enlightenment. Much to my surprise, my mantra saying and meditation only brought my character defects and resentments to the surface. I was soon willing to try anything to relieve the pain. That anything turned out to be the entire Twelve Steps.

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