Certified yoga instructor and recovery expert Tommy Rosen looks forward to leading yoga sessions and recovery hangs during the 2026 Song Summit this weekend. “The Park City Song Summit is a unique and incredible event in our country, and I say that, because it brings together the fans and the musicians for a real connection and love of music, and there’s a whole health and wellness component, which is yoga, breathwork and meditation,” he said. “Then there’s the whole recovery from addiction aspect as well, which is completely relevant for these times. So, I’m thrilled to be a part of it.” Rosen will lead yoga from 9-10 a.m. at the Song Summit Village in Library field and host the recovery hangs from 11:05-11:50 a.m. in the Song Summit Foundation Tent that will also be set up in the village. These events are free and open to the public. (See accompanying story.) For the yoga sessions, Rosen will tap into the philosophies of his organization, Recovery 2.0, which takes a “holistic, optimistic, hopeful, powerful approach to recover from addiction in all of its forms.”  “We apply the beautiful principle and practices of the 12-steps of recovery, but also go beyond that with yoga, health, wellness, meditation, breathwork, diet and relationships,” he said. “We look at the whole human being, and we’ve been having the most extraordinary success.” Enjoyment of life is central to the ethos at Recovery 2.0, Rosen said. “I founded Recovery 2.0 in 2013, based on the fact that there was, believe it or not, extremely little information about how to actually do well in recovery,” he said. “Everybody was emphasizing the struggle of addiction and the struggle of getting sober, but I wanted to address the struggles people face once they are sober, once they have recovery and want to build a great life.” Rosen noticed the world doesn’t necessarily advocate for or celebrate people who are in recovery. “I felt it was an opportunity because once you find recovery, it’s like you’ve hit the jackpot,” he said. “So we should support these people and help them avoid other pitfalls and build upon the practices and recovery and spirituality and psychology.” Rosen’s curriculum is based on his yoga training. “I brought together the ancient time-tested practices and principles of yoga and put that together with the principles and practices of modern-day recovery,” he said. “I found it was filling in all of these gaps for people who need to strengthen their lives, recoveries and relationships.” Rosen discovered kundalini yoga the old-fashioned way. “It was through my own suffering,” he said with a laugh. “So I guess you could say my story is about recovery within recovery.” Rosaen worked for and found abstinence from drug addiction. “It was something I really struggled with, but I had achieved a state of mind and body where I didn’t desire to use drugs or alcohol any more at all,” he said. “But then I found I was still struggling in different ways. Addictions were popping up in other areas in my life — for example, relationships (and) not just romantic relationships, but business relationships, family relationships and friendships.” That’s when Rosen noticed others in recovery from addiction also struggle with their own relationships.  “I also noticed people in recovery also struggled with money and career, and abundance and workaholism,” he said. “I noticed people struggle with food — addictive eating patterns and emotional eating. Rather than eating for energy and fuel, we eat for sedation or stimulation.” So, Rosen began putting together programs that would help himself and, later by extension, help other people. “I wanted to help us get what I call ‘the frequency of addiction’ under control,” he said. “That’s about how we can change the channel and tune ourselves into full recovery.”To do this, Rosen worked with the yoga teacher who turned him onto kundalini yoga. “He showed me a very expanded perspective of yoga that involved ethics,” he said. “I started to find a deeper level of recovery for myself. I started to find healing and a kind of freedom that I hadn’t known before. And I realized this is what I had always looked for in recovery — the sense of being free.” Rosen still has good and bad days, but he can feel the freedom of living in contentment. “I’m grateful and happy to be alive, and wouldn’t anybody else like to have that kind of experience?” he said. “Of course we would. So I’m sharing what my teacher and my experiences have shown me to move toward that kind of freedom in their lives.” In addition to the yoga sessions, Rosen enjoys the recovery hangs, which is open to those in recovery, their friends and family and others who are interested in recovery. “What I love about this is the geometry, which is a circle,” he said. “People have been gathering in circles since the beginning of time. And in modern-day recovery, this is the main ritual, this sacred thing, we engage in.” Participants will sit in a circle and meditate at first during the first part of the session, according to Rosen. “Then we’ll share together and listen to each other,” he said. “We will be vulnerable and honest with each other and cover some ground that way in the spirit of truthfulness.” Rosen loves that the Song Summit calls these sessions ‘hangs.’ One of the 2026 Song Summit’s free community activities is Mindful Morning yoga, led by Tommy Rosen, a certified yoga instructor and recovery expert, scheduled from 9-10 a.m. Friday and Saturday at the Song Summit Village at Library Park. Credit: Photo courtesy of Mario Alcauter “There is medicine in that, and this is a way to apply that medicine and connect with each other,” he said.  Rosen knows addiction affects not only the person who is addicted, but also those who stand within their circles — significant others, children, parents, friends and extended family — so he invites them to join the hangs as well. “Attending a recovery hang is like putting yourself into an energetic soup, if you will,” he said. “We’ll call it recovery soup, and there is a unity and certain power in the understanding that we’re coming together to look at the puzzle pieces and challenges. So there will be an energetic exchange.” Rosen believes anyone who participates in the recovery hang will find recovery is more than stereotypical images that come to mind when they hear the words “addiction” and “alcoholism.” “Most families don’t understand what they can be up against with addiction, so one of the important things about these hangs is support and information,” he said. “Addiction is an internal, insidious force in your mind and your body that contaminates your spirit. It is not something that anyone overcomes by themselves. It requires a deep knowledge of what it is and a knowledge of how to help a person reconnect with others and then with themselves. So, it’s a powerful thing for family members to come, hear and learn and see people doing the very counterintuitive work of simply telling the truth.” Rosen has seen these recovery hangs change people’s lives. “Coming together in community is one of the ingredients to move beyond addiction in all of its forms,” he said. “Plus, it’s so much fun. When someone comes up to me after a class experience and says, ‘I haven’t felt this relaxed in years, if ever’ or ‘I just had a profound shift in my energy and feel different,’ they are acknowledging the embodied experience of transformation that is so critical for a person to want to continue down a path of recovery.” 2026 Song Summit Mindful Mornings Yoga Sessions with Tommy Rosen When: 9 am. Where: Song Summit Village at Library Field, 1255 Park Ave. Cost: Free Web: songsummit.com/pages/schedule Also:  2026 Song Summit Recovery Hangs with Tommy Rosen When: 11:05 a.m. Where: Song Summit Foundation Tent at Library Field, 1255 Park Ave. Cost: Free Web: songsummit.com/pages/schedule The post Song Summit’s free offerings include wellness appeared first on Park Record. ...read more read less