Yoga Therapy (13 contact hours) (#433)

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The benefits of yoga are known across a wide range of age and ethnic groups around the world. This course, co-authored by a yoga specialist and a Physical Therapist, has an aim of integrating the therapeutic benefits of yoga into the skill and practice of Physical and Occupational Therapy intervention. The authors explain in detail how yoga positively affects daily life (whether participating in the mundane of life activities, work, sports, or exercise) to prevent or reduce risk of injury, pain and falls. This course addresses basic anatomy including the skeletal, muscle, neurological, sensory and proprioceptive systems and discusses how each system is positively affected through the multiple poses presented. One of the many strengths of this course is the multiple options presented for the various poses from which the therapist can make adaptations depending on the goal--mobility (combination of flexibility, motor control, and stability), strengthening, balance, or recovery (support during illness or injury with the use of props). Instructions on how to prevent injuries while practicing yoga are included. This course includes the book entitled Yoga Therapy by Butera and Elgelid and is recommended for both the Physical & Occupational Therapy clinician.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------COURSE OBJECTIVES: At the completion of this course, the therapist will be able to: 1. Define yoga therapy & identify its therapeutic benefits 2. Identify ways to incorporate yoga practice into a therapeutic setting & program 3. Identify ways to implement a specific yoga regime to meet the individual client’s needs 4. Define somatic education & the concepts of identification, differentiation, & integration as the foundations for therapeutic yoga movement practices 5. Identify basic anatomy including the various systems within the body & how yoga affects these systems to give it options for improved movement 6. Recognize an awareness of breathing patterns in order to adapt breath to the different poses and into life’s daily activities 7. Recognize ways to reduce the risk of injury with safe yoga practices & strengthening the body for endurance, agility and everyday activities 8. Differentiate multiple yoga poses and identify variations of each pose as needed for client needs (mobility, flexibility, motor control, strengthening, balance, and recovery) and be able to progress the client for more advanced skill 9. Recognize the utilization of props & its effect on the various poses to address limitations or present variety or challenge 10. Recall how participation in yoga therapy reduces risk for falls and injury when participating in life’s activities.

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