HLL04 BioMedical Yoga Therapy for Pain Relief (Online)

With a combination of evidence-based knowledge and traditional wisdom, you will learn processes of Biomedical Yoga Therapy, Meditations, as well as specific strategies for pain rehabilitation that focus on the healing capacity of the mind and body.

This course is a professional development program for those wishing to incorporate yoga therapy tools and mindfulness into pain management programs and for interested members of the public.

Chronic pain is a growing concern in Australian society; more and more people regularly suffer from moderate to intense pain. If you have ever experienced any body aches and pains, whether from physical fatigue, mental exhaustion, or perhaps you simply feel that your body is not performing in the capacity you would like it to, this is the workshop for you!

Learn how to work with pain and discomfort in your own body and the science of pain rehabilitation to assist others. This course will combine evidence-based knowledge with traditional wisdom in combination with Biomedical Yoga Therapy, Meditations, as well as specific processes for Mindfulness CBT pain rehabilitation.

The recordings included in this training will offer an immersive experience of body-mind medicine and yoga therapy, based on the latest research in pain science combined with the ancient practice and philosophy of yoga.

It has been discovered that when we understand the true nature of pain, we are able to focus on re-training our brains neurochemically in a manner that reduces the negative pain feedback loop and has a significant impact as opposed to just tissue repair and pain killers (Lorimer Moseley). We shall be exploring the connection between chronic pain, anxiety, PTSD, trauma and depression, looking deeply into the neuroscience of pain and the Embodied Brain, the yoga poses; this, in combination with the breathing and relaxation techniques for upper body pain and misalignment, will allow us to learn that the key will not necessarily be tissue repair, rather brain training and understanding the biopsychosocial nature of pain.

The liberation of body and mind comes with deep presence and the ability to attune to your bodily sensations. Learn how to manage emotional and physical pain through yoga therapy and meditation.

You will be exploring:

• A personal bodily focus based on Ayurvedic emotional bodywork
• The neuroscientific basis for why yoga and meditation is an effective treatment
• Yoga therapy practices that have been proven to provide pain management and cultivate holistic well-being
• Techniques of internal and external rotations, mobilisation for shoulder joints, triggers of relaxation, as well as resistance work
• Body alignment and protection for reduced head, neck, jaw, temples, eye and shoulder pain
  Why movement is king in treating pain
• Understanding the biopsychosocial nature of pain and brain training for pain relief
• Neuroscientific research into a pain in the brain (Dr Sylvia Gustin)
• How the brain understands and interprets pain
• Exploring the “phantoms in our brain” and cortical mapping as first described by neuroscientist, Dr Ramachandran
• Why physical and mental pain cannot be separated and treated as separate symptomatology
• Biomedical based meditations for brain training and understanding pain (Dr Lorimer Moseley)

Some of the recordings will focus on the healing capacity of the mind and body through understanding the core principles of Yoga Therapy; “breath and spine”.

Complementary therapies for back pain have an abundance of evidence-based literature asserting their effectiveness. Indeed, a recent Victorian article in The Age urged to prescribe yoga and mindfulness to fight back pain, such antidotes are being encouraged more and more worldwide as research uncovers more and more of what tradition has taught for centuries. As such, there is growing awareness of the body-mind connection as it relates to the inflammatory response – this is a vital link when considering treatment for issues such as lower back pain, which is the most common complaint in complementary medicine.

You will be exploring:

• Traditional yoga therapy wisdom behind the body-mind-pain connection and how this relates to holistic well-being
• Yoga Therapy for Back pain and Spinal Heath
• Processes of poses that assist in back pain management
• The advantages of practice, as well as their psychological benefits
• Pain as it relates to body alignment
• Protective practices for reduced back pain and spinal health
• Breathing practice to assist with pain management
• Affecting the subtleties of the human constitution to facilitate optimal results in the practice of classical yoga and yoga therapy for the individual

Please note that not all face-to-face content is included in online course training due to copyright issues. You will receive many classes and recordings in your online training, but occasionally the face-to-face sessions will not be directly matched.