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Course Overview:
Learn how to integrate the healing attributes of Restorative Yoga, meditation, and breath work with conventional rehabilitation therapies. In Restorative Yoga, bolsters, blankets, and belts are used to support the body in comfortable postures that balance muscular and fascial tone, while nourishing vital energy. By creating an environment with props that provides a gentle, low load, prolonged stretch, one can focus completely on releasing the breath and body. While illuminating the scope and depth of this powerful approach and its supporting research, this course will teach practical techniques and concepts to promote the functional performance of patients suffering from cardiopulmonary, orthopedic, chronic pain and neurological disorders. This work is appropriate for therapists in acute care, rehab, outpatient and homecare settings.
Objectives:
At the end of this course participants will be able to:
1) Set-up 6 restorative yoga postures, understand their benefits, contraindications and adaptations of postures to accommodate decreased range of motion and pain.
2) Verbalize an understanding of the consequences stress has on the  body.
3) Verbalize an understanding of abdominal and diaphragmatic breathing as it relates to function and health.
4) Demonstrate techniques to facilitate abdominal and diaphragmatic breathing.
5) Teach breathing techniques to increase a client's body awareness, manage pain and incontinence.
6) Verbalize understanding of the psycho-physiological benefits of meditation and deep relaxation.
7) Integrate yoga with manual therapy, neuromuscular reeducation and orthodox exercise therapy to achieve therapeutic ends.
8) Understand how the relaxation response enhances function and comfort and use appropriate techniques to elicit this response.
9) Document the use of therapeutic yoga in the medical record. |
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