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Description

Equip yourself with the knowledge and skills to guide your students in transforming their relationship with pain, empowering them to live more fully.

Learn evidence-based methods that focus on relaxation, breath work, and body awareness, enabling you to create personalized sequences that cater to each student’s unique needs.

Chronic pain affects more people worldwide than diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined, and results in sleep disturbances, fatigue, emotional stress, muscular tension and more. Using a combination of ancient yoga practices and modern physiological treatment modalities, this two-day training will provide the yoga therapist the necessary tools to work with students and clients suffering from chronic pain.

Continuing Education Credits      

  • 1.6 ACE CECs
  • 16 Yoga Alliance CEUs
Required Materials
  • Yoga and Science in Pain Care: Treating the Person in Pain edited by Neil Pearson, Shelly Prosko & Marlysa Sullivan

 

Recommended Materials
  • Your Body Speaks Your Mind by Deb Shapiro

 

 

 

Course Includes

  • check icon Comprehensive Training Manual
  • check icon Lecture and Guided Practice
  • check icon Small Group Work
  • check icon Practice Teaching Sessions
  • check icon Private Student Community Access
  • check icon Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Credits (CEUs)

What You'll Learn

  • check icon How pain and the perception of pain affect the various systems of the body, including the brain, the endocrine system, the nervous system, and the body tissues
  • check icon To understand the neurobiology of pain and be able to compare and contrast Western and Eastern methods of managing it
  • check icon A thorough understanding of the mind-body aspect of pain and how it relates to your yoga therapy practice
  • check icon How to incorporate asana, pranayama, and meditation practices, as well as the eight limbs of Raja yoga, into your pain management protocols
  • check icon To design appropriate group and single-client sessions for various types of conditions that create chronic pain

Why Learn Yoga with us

  • check iconEnhance Mind–Body Balance
  • check iconLearn From Experts
  • check iconStudy at Your Own Pace
  • check iconDeepen Your Practice
  • check iconMake a Positive Impact
  • check iconEarn a Recognized Certificate

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