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Teaching Therapeutic and Adaptive
Yoga
 Dear teacher,
If you are reading this newsletter, you have an interest in
therapeutic and adaptive yoga. As a teacher, you probably encounter many
students who have come to yoga as a way to improve their health, to recover
from an illness or surgery, and even to age gracefully.
Many of us feel called to do this work as as a fulfillment of our
dharma. It becomes a sort of ministry to ease the pain and suffering of
our fellow human beings.
In January, I went to LA for the IAYT sponsored SYTAR - Symposium on
Yoga Therapy and Research. This was a powerful weekend with more than 800
yoga teachers, therapists and researchers who are committed to the healing
power of yoga.
SYTAR was academically oriented with 6 experiential workshops each day
that offered the opportunity to learn more from the presenters. There were
also 15 presentations from abstracts that were presented from members of
the yoga community. These were presentations from people in the field,
mostly yoga teachers, who were doing research in their workplace or for
their thesis work. Their presentations were awesome. This conference
provided information about research that verifies some of the claims that
yoga practitioners often make about the benefits of yoga.
In terms of the program, I absolutely enjoyed every minute. We began
with the inquiry of what is yoga therapy. The field of yoga therapy is
engaging the conversation of what is yoga therapy, who does it, where it's
done, does yoga therapy need to be a CAM practice and do we as yoga
practitioners even want that, what's the difference between a yoga teacher
and a yoga therapist, etc.
This entire conference helped me to clarify my own vision of what I do
and what I want to do. Others around me were saying the same. While I
feel that I live with this question, this symposium helped me to get
clearer. For example, I realize that I have a more yin approach to
teaching, while others may have a more yang approach. In my practice, I am
a therapeutic yoga teacher, not a yoga therapist. I've come to see yoga
therapy as the therapeutic application of yoga for a specific outcome. All
yoga has therapeutic benefits but, to me, yoga therapy is more specific,
requiring additional skills and training.
Teaching Adaptive Yoga for MS has become a passion for me because I
know first hand about the healing power of yoga. It is my hope that this
training will empower teachers to work with non-traditional students.
These students may have specific needs, challenges and limitations that
create barriers, real or imagined, to participation in traditional yoga
experiences. We can change this.
In yoga, Karen
Teaching Adaptive Yoga for
MS - Rhode Island
 March 16 - 17, 2007
Program Highlights:
* Yoga Class for students with MS: Using props and modifications,
teachers learn first hand some challenges facing students with limitations
and disability.
* Adaptive Yoga skills experience: Using symptoms and case studies, a
range of Yoga techniques are explored to benefit the specific needs of the
students. Scenarios range from students with few adaptive needs to
students using wheelchairs due physical limitations including paralysis.
* Community education program with the possibility of individual
consultations with individuals who have MS. People who have MS discuss
their challenges and what they need in terms of a Yoga experience.
* Adaptive Asana Training: Teachers explore the wide variety of props
and modifications that can creatively address the needs of students who
have limitations and disability. Suited to a wide range of student
populations including seniors.
* Class Design: Lesson plan development for Private Yoga sessions and
group classes; sequencing for safety and comprehensive experience.
This training includes experiential components, lecture and discussion
to increase teachers understanding and awareness of the challenges facing
students who have MS and other challenging health conditions as well as the
many ways that the eight fold path of Yoga can improve health and feelings
of well-being.
CEUs:
Yoga Alliance RYTs earn up to 15 CEUs.
Approved by Kripalu AYTT for 10 hours in technique for eligible
teachers.
Training Time Schedule:
Day One: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. & 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Day Two: 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Registration Fee:
$209, training manual and lunch included.
Early bird: $189 payment received by March 6, 2007.
Accommodations:
Participants are responsible for their own lodging.
Training Location: Warwick Public Library, 600 Sandy Ln, Warwick, RI
02889
Directions:
http://www.warwicklibrary.org/directions.htm
Check payable to: Rhode Island Chapter of the NMSS
Mail to:
Rhode Island Chapter of the NMSS
(Attn: Gwendolyn Reeve)
205 Hallene Road, Suite 209
Warwick, RI 02886
Credit card payments: contact the chapter at (401) 738-8383
Registration form
Places to stay and things
to do - Warwick, Rhode Island
Haddie Pierce House B&B
146 Boston Neck Road
Wickford, RI 02852
(866) 442-3343
info@haddiepierce.com
16 miles from Warwick Library
Seasonal discounts
Hampton Inn & Suites
2100 Post Road
Warwick, RI 02886
(401) 739-8888
$149 (discounts may apply)
3.6 miles from training
Best Western
2138 Post Road
Warwick, RI 02886
(401) 737-7400
starting at $81.88 (discounts may apply)
3.5 miles from training
Hampton Inn Coventry-Warwick Area
850 Centre of New England Boulevard
Coventry, Rhode Island 02816
(401) 823-4041
starting at $99 (discounts may apply)
9 miles from training
Historical fact:
Anne Hutchinson: The first woman to establish a town in America -
Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
Visit Rhode Island
Teaching Adaptive Yoga for
MS training - Albany, New York
April 13 - 14, 2007
Training Location: Center for Disability Services, 314 South Manning
Blvd., Albany, NY 12208
Training Time Schedule:
Day One: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. & 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Day Two: 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Registration Fee:
$209, training manual and lunch included.
Early bird: $189 payment received by April 3, 2007.
Check payable to: Upstate New York Chapter of the NMSS, Albany
Mail to:
Upstate New York Chapter of the NMSS, Albany Office
(Attn: Charity Shoen)
421 New Karner Road, Suite 6
Albany, NY 12205
Credit card payments: contact Charity Shoen at (518) 464-0924
Accommodations:
Participants are responsible for their own lodging.
Registration form
Teaching Adaptive Yoga for
MS - Burlington, Vermont
May 18 - 19, 2007
Training Location: Yoga Vermont, One Mill Street, Suite 236,
Burlington, VT 05401
http://www.yogavermont.com/
Training Time Schedule:
Day One: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. & 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Day Two: 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Registration Fee:
$209, training manual and lunch included.
Early bird: $189 payment received by May 8, 2007.
Check payable to: Vermont Division, All American Chapter of the NMSS
Mail to:
Vermont Division, All American Chapter of the NMSS
(Attn: Christine Lloyd-Newberry)
75 Talcott Road
Williston, VT 05495
Credit card payments: contact the chapter at (802) 862-0912
Accommodations:
Participants are responsible for their own lodging.
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