Why Yoga as a Therapeutic Modality?
- What is yoga?
- Understand Integrative Medicine
- Review body systems and how they work together
- Understand types of yoga and how yoga therapy aids body systems
- Neuroplasticity of the brain and eye, and brain exercises for adults and kids
- The Nervous System and pain control
- How yoga comforts pain clients
Anatomy of Therapeutic Yoga: Cardiopulmonary System
- Review pulmonary anatomy (case study)
- Proper breathing and its benefits
- Types of pranayama
- Breathing exercises
- Therapeutic breathing and your adults and kids
- When to use pranayama for adults and kids
- Define breathing and positioning
- upright
- side-lying in bed
- wheelchair
- standing
- Case study with group practice of pranayama, seated and standing pose demo
Anatomy of Therapeutic Yoga: Musculoskeletal System
- Posture and nerve and muscle communication
- Anatomy of the shoulder and hip joints
- Opening the joint door: muscle and body balance
- Practical applications for diagnoses
- Secondary disabilities and their consequences, dissecting the mechanics of movement
- spasticity
- hypotonicity
- muscle imbalance
- Yoga as medicine for adults and kids from dependent clients to active clients
Asana Application and Treatment
- Asana poses
- The science of restorative vs. active poses and the body’s response
- Decide between restorative vs. active poses for treatment
- Case studies in a variety of settings from hospitals to schools
- Perform active poses
Poses: Props and Our Patients
- Perform restorative poses
- How do resting poses help clients with disabilities? (client with cancer case study)
- The importance of elongation and extension of the body and how props assist your clients
- Pictures of supported and active yoga poses for clients with a variety of disabilities
- Props for therapeutic use with spasticity, abnormal tone, weakness, or imbalance
- How do you decide if your client needs resting or active poses and how much?
- Is the client prone, supine, or in a wheelchair?
Pose Lab and Case Study Presentations
- Practice poses and experience the therapeutic benefits of a restorative pose vs. an active pose
- Using props through visuals and poses
- Examine 5 different case studies and determine what poses are best for your clients
- Therapeutic benefits of each pose for each diagnosis and their contraindications
- What props to use for each pose and why
Yoga and Expanding Client Treatment
- In your setting: acute care, inpatient, outpatient, home health, and hospice
- Throughout the lifespan
- Giving the client a gift in the community
- Recent studies in medicine and yoga
- Yoga and its future in health care
- Yoga and the Integrative Medicine team
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