MISTY 2024 - Neuroscience, Yoga Therapy and Chronic Pain
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MISTY 2024 - Neuroscience, Yoga Therapy and Chronic Pain
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Overview
Recorded at the 2024 Montreal International Symposium on Therapeutic Yoga (MISTY), this workshop explores the intersection of yoga therapy philosophy and techniques with an integrative health, whole-person care model for people experiencing persistent pain.
Bridging the gaps between the neuroscience of pain, lifestyle medicine, the Pancha Maya Kosha model, and bio-psycho-social-spritual-environmental aspects of chronic pain, this workshop provides evidence-based therapeutic yoga tools to give yoga professionals the expertise and confidence to facilitate healing for people who experience long-standing pain.
Learning Objectives
In this online course, you will learn:
- Evidence-based therapeutic yoga tools.
- Understanding why and how yoga therapy tools effectively manage persistent pain.
- Confidence to facilitate healing for people who experience long-standing pain.
Presenter Bio: Catherine Justice, PT, DPT, FAIHM, C-IAYT, CST, E-RYT
Catherine Justice is an integrative physical therapist, a certified yoga therapist, a yoga researcher, an artist, and a meditation instructor. She received her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from the University of Minnesota in 2010 and graduated with honors from the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine’s two-year Integrative Medicine Fellowship program in 2022.
Catherine has studied many styles of yoga and meditation for over 3 decades and is the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Yoga Therapy. She is the founder of The Art of Wellness, LLC - an organization dedicated to optimizing wellness for individuals, organizations, and communities through customized, whole-person integrative physical therapy, consulting, coaching, and teaching.
Catherine has dedicated her career to helping to improve equity and reduce suffering in our world, including extensive training and experience helping people who experience chronic pain.
Audience
This course can serve anyone who works with those suffering from persistent pain, as well as offer anyone who suffers from chronic pain a better understanding of the neuroscience of pain.
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Co-Founder, President of MISTY
Her passion for yoga inspired her to share yoga with a few friends in the basement of one of whom eventually lost her battle with cancer. She soon realized her love of yoga could only be surpassed by the desire to share it with others & the joy of seeing them benefit from yoga on many levels.
In 2002 just after delivering a stillborn boy Helene embarked on a 200hr YTT Certification Course. During 2003 she continued the training at same time began teaching yoga at the St. Lazare Community Center. Helene continues to teach regular yoga classes with a therapeutic approach, offers Private Yoga Therapy Sessions & mentors a 200hr Yoga Teacher Training. Winter of 2018 she will introduce an Advanced Yoga Teacher Training focusing on Therapeutics.
Helene is also co-founder of this international conference bringing health care professionals & yoga therapist together with the mission of integrating yoga into the Canadian health care system.
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Material included in this course
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Neuroscience Yoga Therapy and Chronic Pain
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Feedback
Can I get a certificate for Continuing Education Credits/Units (CEs) for watching this course?
Yes this course counts for 2 CEs with IAYT. In order for the appropriate CEU information to be displayed on your certificate of completion, please add your CEU jurisdiction information on your Embodia profile. Learn how to do so in this guide.
Is a certificate of completion included with this course?
Once you have completed the course, a certificate of completion (including learning hours and course information) will be generated. You can download this certificate at any time. To learn more about course certificates on Embodia please visit this guide.