classes & Events
Recovery Yoga
In partnership with Rayleen McMillan, our recovery yoga classes provide trauma-informed services and resiliency training in order to ensure all individuals have the tools to heal from the impacts of trauma, prevent re-traumatization, and realize their full potential.
In-person, Loft
Recovery Yoga
In partnership with Rayleen McMillan, our recovery yoga classes provide trauma-informed services and resiliency training in order to ensure all individuals have the tools to heal from the impacts of trauma, prevent re-traumatization, and realize their full potential.
In-person, Loft
Run TRG: Track Tuesdays
Join Run TRG at Duniway Track for an evening track run! All skill and experience levels welcome!
Yoga for Athletes at TRG
Yoga for Athletes focuses on enhancing performance by improving strength, flexibility and balance. Beginners and experienced yogis are welcome.
Free Legal Sercices and Expungement Clinic
A criminal record creates barriers to housing and employment, perpetuating a cycle of poverty for people in recovery involved with the criminal justice system. Unfortunately, clearing one’s record can be expensive, costing in excess of $3,000. That’s why we are thrilled to partner with Clear Clinic to offer this monthly free legal services and expungement clinic, where all services are offered free of charge.
In person, Cafe
Drop-ins welcome!
Recovery Spin Class
The Alano Club and The Recovery Gym are proud to partner with Revel Indoor Cycling to offer FREE monthly spin classes open to anyone in or seeking recovery from substance use or mental health disorders!
The classes, led by Shannon Speakman, will be open to all levels of experience and ability, and will happen the first Tuesday of each month at 12:15pm, at Revel Indoor Cycling.
Somatic Sobriety
Led by Rayleen McMillan, this monthly workshop will explore somatic practices as a recovery support!
ALL levels of experience — with somatics and/or recovery — are welcome and affirmed.
In person, Loft
Financial Literacy Workshop
The Alano Club is proud to partner with Embold Credit Union to offer a series of FREE Financial Literacy workshops!
Join us in the Cafe the first Wednesday of each month from 6:30 - 7:30pm for these workshops which offer practical tools, real-world guidance, and a supportive space to build your financial confidence. Start your journey towards financial empowerment - no experience needed!
May 6: Budgeting
June 3: Understanding credit
July 1: Paying off debt
August 5: Saving and emergency funds
September 2: Spending
October 7: Protecting yourself from identity theft and fraud
In person, Cafe
Career Development Workshop
Join us for a career development workshop focused on resume-creating that goes beyond bullet points. While we will cover how to build a resume that stands out, the heart of this workshop is a deep dive into looking at what you bring to the table, how you move the needle for others and ways in which you’re excited to grow in your next career chapter.
Together we’ll:
Examine your impact
Tell your story with pride
Bridge the gap to the interview
Charli Taylor is the founder and principal coach of EduVentura and its subsidiary, Northlight Careers, which provides dedicated career coaching for individuals navigating professional life in recovery. She also serves as an education and placement consultant for Right Fit Collaborative.
In person, Cafe
Plates for the People
Plates for the People is a series of free, monthly cooking classes for people in or seeking recovery.
Plates for the People is a series of free, monthly cooking classes for people in or seeking recovery, led by Chef Patrick McKee (Estes).
Plates for the people began in 2019, when the Alano Club of Portland and the Portland chapter of Ben’s Friends partnered with Cookshop and some of the country’s best chefs—including Gregory Gourdet, Tommy Habetz, Patrick McKee, Marcus Oliver, Gabriel Rucker and more—to bring the recovery community free, accessible classes where students learn about budgeting, meal planning, and how to cooking delicious, healthy dinners they can repurpose for multiple meals to feed themselves and others. Each class begins with the visiting chef sharing about their own journey with cooking and recovery, and concludes with the chef and students sharing a meal, and their stories, with each other.
The Break
The Break is a monthly virtual gathering of writers and artists lead by Kaveh Akbar, celebrating amongness, collaboration, and interdisciplinary creative experimentation. Though many of the activities and discussions orbit or are inflected by recovery themes (Akbar has been in active recovery for eight years), participants are not required to self-identify as being in recovery to participate. Over the quarantine, The Break has had several guest instructors as well, with graphic novelist Erin Williams leading recovery-based drawing activities, memoirist Leslie Jamison leading essay writing, and poet Angel Nafis playing poetry games with the group. Regular attendees often share major life and creative developments, and the group continues to grow both in headcount and in pedagogical conceit!
Kaveh Akbar is a poet, writer, teacher and the poetry editor for The Nation. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times, Paris Review, Poetry, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. His New York Times bestselling debut novel, Martyr! was published by Knopf in 2024; he is also the author of the poetry collections Pilgrim Bell (Graywolf, 2021), Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James, 2017), and Portrait of the Alcoholic (Sibling Rivalry, 2016). Kaveh was born in Tehran, Iran, and teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph and Warren Wilson Colleges.
Virtual/remote, Zoom.
Strength Training for Every Body
Join coach Eloise at The Recovery Gym for a strength training class for every body! All skill and experience levels welcome!
Recovery Yoga
In partnership with Rayleen McMillan, our recovery yoga classes provide trauma-informed services and resiliency training in order to ensure all individuals have the tools to heal from the impacts of trauma, prevent re-traumatization, and realize their full potential.
In-person, Loft
Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.
In person, Basement
Run TRG: Trail Run Saturdays
Join Run TRG for a Saturday morning trail run around Mt. Tabor Park! Meet at the entrance on SE 64th Avenue and Lincoln Street. All skill and experience levels welcome!
Run TRG: “Happy Hour” Trail Run
Join Run TRG for a Friday evening trail run through Forest Park! Meet at the Leif Erikson Gate on NW Thurman. All skill and experience levels welcome!
Yoga for Athletes at TRG
Yoga for Athletes focuses on enhancing performance by improving strength, flexibility and balance. Beginners and experienced yogis are welcome.
Yoga for Athletes at TRG
Yoga for Athletes focuses on enhancing performance by improving strength, flexibility and balance. Beginners and experienced yogis are welcome.
Run TRG: Track Tuesdays
Join Run TRG at Duniway Track for an evening track run! All skill and experience levels welcome!
Recovery Yoga
In partnership with Rayleen McMillan, our recovery yoga classes provide trauma-informed services and resiliency training in order to ensure all individuals have the tools to heal from the impacts of trauma, prevent re-traumatization, and realize their full potential.
In-person, Loft
Strength Training for Every Body
Join coach Eloise at The Recovery Gym for a strength training class for every body! All skill and experience levels welcome!
Recovery Yoga
In partnership with Rayleen McMillan, our recovery yoga classes provide trauma-informed services and resiliency training in order to ensure all individuals have the tools to heal from the impacts of trauma, prevent re-traumatization, and realize their full potential.
In-person, Loft
Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.
In person, Basement
Run TRG: Trail Run Saturdays
Join Run TRG for a Saturday morning trail run around Mt. Tabor Park! Meet at the entrance on SE 64th Avenue and Lincoln Street. All skill and experience levels welcome!
Run TRG: “Happy Hour” Trail Run
Join Run TRG for a Friday evening trail run through Forest Park! Meet at the Leif Erikson Gate on NW Thurman. All skill and experience levels welcome!
Yoga for Athletes at TRG
Yoga for Athletes focuses on enhancing performance by improving strength, flexibility and balance. Beginners and experienced yogis are welcome.
Yoga for Athletes at TRG
Yoga for Athletes focuses on enhancing performance by improving strength, flexibility and balance. Beginners and experienced yogis are welcome.
Run TRG: Track Tuesdays
Join Run TRG at Duniway Track for an evening track run! All skill and experience levels welcome!
Recovery Yoga
In partnership with Rayleen McMillan, our recovery yoga classes provide trauma-informed services and resiliency training in order to ensure all individuals have the tools to heal from the impacts of trauma, prevent re-traumatization, and realize their full potential.
In-person, Loft
Strength Training for Every Body
Join coach Eloise at The Recovery Gym for a strength training class for every body! All skill and experience levels welcome!
Recovery Yoga
In partnership with Rayleen McMillan, our recovery yoga classes provide trauma-informed services and resiliency training in order to ensure all individuals have the tools to heal from the impacts of trauma, prevent re-traumatization, and realize their full potential.
In-person, Loft
Sounds of Recovery
Join us as we come together as artists in recovery to express our creativity through the power of music, poetry, dance and more.
In person, Basement
Run TRG: Trail Run Saturdays
Join Run TRG for a Saturday morning trail run around Mt. Tabor Park! Meet at the entrance on SE 64th Avenue and Lincoln Street. All skill and experience levels welcome!
Run TRG: “Happy Hour” Trail Run
Join Run TRG for a Friday evening trail run through Forest Park! Meet at the Leif Erikson Gate on NW Thurman. All skill and experience levels welcome!
Yoga for Athletes at TRG
Yoga for Athletes focuses on enhancing performance by improving strength, flexibility and balance. Beginners and experienced yogis are welcome.
Yoga for Athletes at TRG
Yoga for Athletes focuses on enhancing performance by improving strength, flexibility and balance. Beginners and experienced yogis are welcome.
Community Reading Series
In partnership with Tin House, The Alano Club Community Reading Series is a monthly open-mic for writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid genres, generously hosted by Portland’s premier queer-owned and operated bookstore, Bishop & Wilde. This structured yet unscripted gathering is an occasion to share works in-progress and experience the rich overlap of Portland’s literary and recovery communities. While readers are not required to self-identify as being in recovery, we will maintain a sober-friendly environment for all sessions. We encourage readers of all experience levels to sign up for a guaranteed reading slot of 10 minutes or less, though two slots per session are reserved for first-time readers!