Kripa Mangalore

16/09/2025

An orientation program of Kripa Foundation module of treatment was conducted at our de-addiction and rehabilitation centre in Mangalore for final year students of Don Bosco Arts and Science College, Kannur, Kerela. There were 32 students and 3 faculty members. The session emphasized the importance of all the components of the module. The spokes person explained the wholistic structure of the Kripa module which inculdes Psycho-Spiritual, Psycho-Social and Psycho-Somatic thereby enabling healing in the mental, physical, spiritual and social areas..

The session was interactive and many questions and doubts were cleared. Thereafter, tea and snack were served to all present.

09/09/2025

12/08/2025

What happens when a Catholic priest becomes a disciple of B.K.S. Iyengar, walks alongside Mother Teresa, and devotes his life to healing addicts—through yoga...

12/07/2025

Kripa Nite 2025
The Spirit of Freedom!
Join us for a magical evening featuring some of Mumbai’s finest entertainers, all for a noble cause close to our hearts.

📅 Friday, 15th August 2025
🕖 7:00 pm Sharp
📍 St. Andrew’s Auditorium, Bandra

🎟 Tickets: ₹1000 / ₹750 / ₹500
Book yours now at the Kripa Office, Mt. Carmel’s Church, or call 7506273937 / 9623073202, pay online and collect your tickets at the venue.

Come, celebrate freedom, music, and the spirit of giving! See you there!

26/06/2025

INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST DRUG ABUSE AND ILLICIT TRAFFICKING 2025
Kripa Foundation, Mangalore conducted a drug awareness program at Capitanio High School and Pre University College on June 26, 2025. The program began with a discussion on drugs addiction trying to ascertain the level of knowledge of the participants.

The speaker went on to expain how in 1956, the AMA (American Medical Association) and WHO (World Health Organization) had redefined alcoholism and subsequently addiction as illnesses thereby eradicating the stigma attached to these maladies.

Next, we dwelt upon the nature of the disease and how it affects the entire family and society as a whole. The Kripa module of treatment was emphasized and highlighting how if helps in wholistic healing of both the patient and the family.

Further global and local statistics were highlighted after which all present took the oath.

Thereafter, 2 patients undergoing treatment at Kripa, Mangalore shared their testimonies.

This year the theme is “Breaking the chains: Treatment, Prevention and Recovery for All.” Let us strive to make treatment available to all suffering from this life-threatening disease and through awareness programs for high risk target groups, endeavour to reduce the rampant spread of these maladies. "To be aware is to be alive."

21/06/2025

A very important message from Rev. Fr. Joe Pereira on the occasion of International Yoga Day.

21/06/2025

INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY 2025:
Kripa Foundation, Mangalore celebrated International Yoga Day 2025, at Capitanio Composite Pre University on June 19, and at Capitanio English Medium High School on June 21. The theme for this year was "Yoga for One Earth, One Health," aligning Yoga with sustainability and Global well-being.

The program began with a discussion on the history of Yoga and the wholistic benefits of Yoga and Meditation. Next, a short demonstration of the aasanas was conducted with the students participating in the same. This was followed by a guided meditation session to enable the students and staff to experience first hand the benefits of meditation.

The speaker then explained briefly the Kripa module of treatment and how Yoga and Meditation play and important part in our recovery module.

04/02/2025

February 4

FEELING GOOD ISN'T THE POINT

"For us, recovery is more than just pleasure."

Basic Text, p.43

In our active addiction, most of us knew exactly how we were going to feel from one day to the next. All we had to do was read the label on the bottle or know what was in the bag. We planned our feelings, and our goal for each day was to feel good.

In recovery, we're liable to feel anything from one day to the next, even from one minute to the next. We may feel energetic and happy in the morning, then strangely let down and sad in the afternoon. Because we no longer plan our feelings for the day each morning, we could end up having feelings that are somewhat inconvenient, like feeling tired in the morning and wide-awake at bedtime.

Of course, there's always the possibility we could feel good, but that isn't the point. Today, our main concern is not feeling good but learning to understand and deal with our feelings, no matter what they are. We do this by working the steps and sharing our feelings with others.

Just for today: I will accept my feelings, whatever they may be, just as they are. I will practice the program and learn to live with my feelings.

03/02/2025

February 3

WE NEED EACH OTHER

"Anyone may join us, regardless of age, race, sexual identity, creed, religion, or lack of religion."

Basic Text, p.9

Addiction closed our minds to anything new or different. We didn't need anyone or anything, we thought. There was nothing of value to be found in anyone from a different neighborhood, a different racial or ethnic background, or a different social or economic class. We may have thought that if it was different, it was bad.

In recovery, we can't afford such attitudes. We came to NA because our very best thinking had gotten us nowhere. We must open our minds to experience that work, no matter where it comes from, if we hope to grow in our recovery.

Regardless of our personal backgrounds, we all have two things in common with one another in NA that we share with no one else: our disease, and our recovery. We depend on one another for our shared experience - and the broader that experience, the better. We need every bit of experience, every different angle on our program we can find to meet the many challenges of living clean.
Recovery often isn't easy. The strength we need to recover, we draw from our fellow NA members. Today, we are grateful for the diversity of our group's membership, for in that diversity we find our strength.

Just for today: I know that the more diverse my group's experience is, the better able my group will be to offer me support in the different circumstances I find myself facing. Today, I welcome addicts from all backgrounds to my home group.

01/02/2025

HARDSHIPS

"We felt different... Only after surrender are we able to overcome the alienation of addiction."

Basic Text - Page 22

"But you don't understand!" we spluttered, trying to cover up. "I'm different! I've really got it rough!" We used these lines over and over in our active addiction, either trying to escape the consequences of our actions or avoid following the rules that
applied to everyone else. We may have cried them at our first meeting. Perhaps we've even caught ourselves whining them recently.

So many of us feel different or unique. As addicts, we can use almost anything to alienate ourselves. But there's no excuse for missing out on recovery, nothing that can make us ineligible for the program-not a life-threatening illness, not poverty, not
anything. There are thousands of addicts who have found recovery despite the real hardships they've faced. Through working the program, their spiritual awareness has grown, in spite of or perhaps in response to those hardships.

Our individual circumstances and differences are irrelevant when it comes to recovery. By letting go of our uniqueness and surrendering to this simple way of life, we're bound to find that we feel a part of something. And feeling a part of something
gives us the strength to walk through life, hardships and all.

Just for today: I will let go of my uniqueness and embrace the principles of recovery I have in common with so many others. My hardships do not exclude me from recovery; rather, they draw me into it.

31/01/2025

January 31, 2019

TRUST

"Just for today I will have faith in someone in NA who believes in me and wants to help me in my recovery."

Basic Text, p. 93

Learning to trust is a risky proposition. Our past experience as using addicts has taught us that our companions could not be trusted. Most of all, we couldn't trust ourselves.

Now that we're in recovery, trust is essential. We need something to hang onto, believe in, and give us hope in our recovery. For some of us, the first thing we can trust is the words of other members sharing in meetings; we feel the truth in their words.
Finding someone we can trust makes it easier to ask for help. And as we grow to trust in their recovery, we learn to trust our own.

Just for Today: I will decide to trust someone. I will act on that trust.

30/01/2025

GIVING IT AWAY

"We must give freely and gratefully that which has been freely and gratefully given to us."
Basic Text p. 47

In recovery, we receive many gifts. Perhaps one of the greatest of these gifts is the spiritual awakening that begins when we stop using, growing stronger each day we apply the steps in our lives. The new spark of life within is a direct result of our new
relationship with a Higher Power, a relationship initiated and developed by living the Twelve Steps. Slowly, as we pursue our program, the radiance of recovery dispels the darkness of our disease.

One of the ways we express our gratitude for the gifts of recovery is to help others find what we've found. We can do this in any number of ways: by sharing in meetings, making Twelfth Step calls, accepting a commitment to sponsorship, or volunteering for H&I or phone line duty. The spiritual life given to us in recovery asks
for expression, for "we can only keep what we have by giving it away."

Just for today: The gift of recovery grows when I share it. I will find someone with whom to share it.