Eddie LeShure, CADC

Eddie LeShure is a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC), Spiritual Emergence Coach® (IMHU), Meditation Teacher, Breathwork Facilitator, Certified Peer Support Specialist (CPSS), Certified Yoga Instructor (RYT 200) plus person in long term recovery. His professional background includes 8 years of training, supervision and direct client contact in addiction counseling. He has extensive training and experience working with those in spiritual emergency in a clinical setting, plus both personal and professional training and experience with plant medicines, especially psilocybin, and other psychedelics. Eddie has done his own deep inner work, as well as serving as a harm reduction sitter/space holder for those in sacred ceremony.

Eddie's personal journey as a young man took him deep into the throes of active addiction and incarceration on a drug arrest. His two years behind bars were mostly spent in the notorious Attica Prison where he survived a rebellion in 1971 that killed 43 inmates and employees. His personal healing and recovery and how he works with others have always been guided by deep understanding and compassion.

Eddie taught himself yoga in a prison cell in the early ’70s and began meditating in the early ’80s. Since then he has 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. Eddie has spent the equivalent of two years in a retreat setting.