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BlogTalk Radio: PhysioYoga for Pelvic Pain

BlogTalk Radio

Join Shelly Prosko, Physical Therapist and Professional Yoga Therapist, on The Pelvic Messenger BlogTalk Radio Show as she discusses PhysioYoga for Pelvic Pain. There will be an opportunity for listeners to ask questions at the end of the show (Feb.13th: 7pm MST). As a Physical Therapist and Professional Yoga Therapist, Shelly Prosko is dedicated to bridging the gap between yoga and modern healthcare philosophies and believes this integration is highly effective in creating and sustaining optimal health. Shelly is dedicated to inspiring, empowering and educating healthcare professionals, yoga teachers, therapists, students and people in pain about ways yoga can be used safely and effectively to address a variety of health issues and improve quality of life. Please Shelly's visit www.physioyoga.ca for more information. Resources: -Pelvic Floor Yoga Videos -Youtube Channel that includes various videos on Pelvic Floor Yoga Methods -Shelly's Blogposts that includes a list of Yoga and Pelvic Floor Health related resources: "Pelvic Floor Galore! Resources for Creating PelvicFloor Health through Yoga"

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PYTS Retreat: Costa Rica

Boca Sombrero Puerto Jimenez, Costa Rica

This retreat is for Professional Yoga Therapy alumni and their [...]

Reflect, Reset + Recharge: Practitioner’s Retreat to Cultivate Self-Compassion, Address Burnout + Enhance Patient Self-Care Through Therapeutic Yoga – Ontario, Canada

Oliphant, Ontario, Canada

Reflect, Reset + Recharge: Practitioner's Retreat to Cultivate Self-Compassion, Address Burnout + Enhance Patient Self-Care Through Therapeutic Yoga “If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete” ~Buddha Practitioner burnout exists in over 50% of physical therapists in America. Burnout and compassion fatigue can negatively influence your job performance, quality of patient care, patient outcomes, and your personal life. Join Shelly Prosko, Physical Therapist and Professional Yoga Therapist, in this special two day yoga infused ‘getaway’ in a relaxing, small-group, retreat setting where you will learn and experience self-care methods for yourself, and ultimately how to teach effective self-care to your patients. Learning self-care principles can help cultivate self-compassion, prevent practitioner burnout, promote longevity and vitality in work-life balance. Learn how to empower your patients with self-care techniques resulting in enhanced quality of care, and help create overall balanced health and well being both for yourself and your patients. You will learn a variety of techniques and practical tips to immediately integrate into your daily routine at your workplace and at home. You will participate in yoga practices including meditation and mindfulness techniques, pranayama (breath practices), asana (physical poses), and other movement integrated with yoga philosophy to address components of self-care and compassion that can help inspire you on your path to restore balance, vitality, peace, and reconnection to your authentic self and purpose. Retreat Intentions: Define self-compassion and the difference between indulgence and self-esteem and why self-compassion is a key component of overall health and wellness for yourself and your patients. Learn the heuristic model of compassion and understand how it can be used to enhance quality of care in the clinical setting. Learn alternative paths to prime, cultivate and enhance compassion towards ourselves and others. Define burnout (BO) and compassion fatigue (CF), particularly as it relates to the health care practitioner. Outline 2 models of burnout including risk factors, warning signs, stages and characteristics. Compare compassion satisfaction vs compassion fatigue. Learn how integrating yoga into your professional practice and your personal life may help improve compassion satisfaction, prevent practitioner BO + CF, and optimize quality of care for patients. Learn a variety of self-care techniques and practical tips that you can share with your patients and also immediately integrate into your own daily home and workplace routine. Valuable resources will be included. Participate in yoga practices including a variety of meditation and mindfulness techniques, pranayama (breath practices), asana (physical poses), and other movement practices integrated with yoga philosophy to help cultivate compassion towards yourself, others, and to inspire and empower yourself and your patients to reconnect to peace, purpose, and a sense of joy for life. TO REGISTER: CLICK HERE Limited to 14 registrants – please email [email protected] to reserve your spot prior to mailing your registration form *Payment due at time of registration / Payment is non-refundable* Included in cost: Course tuition, lodging, food and the Scandinave Spa Audience: This course is open to all health care professionals – physiotherapists, physiotherapy students, physiotherapy assistants, occupational therapists, chiropractors, naturopathic doctors, massage therapists, registered kinesiologists, medical doctors, nurses and midwives.

$895 – $975

Reflect, Reset + Recharge: Practitioner’s Retreat to Cultivate Self-Compassion, Address Burnout + Enhance Patient Self-Care Through Therapeutic Yoga – Ontario, Canada

Oliphant, Ontario, Canada

Reflect, Reset + Recharge: Practitioner's Retreat to Cultivate Self-Compassion, Address Burnout + Enhance Patient Self-Care Through Therapeutic Yoga “If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete” ~Buddha Practitioner burnout exists in over 50% of physical therapists in America. Burnout and compassion fatigue can negatively influence your job performance, quality of patient care, patient outcomes, and your personal life. Join Shelly Prosko, Physical Therapist and Professional Yoga Therapist, in this special two day yoga infused ‘getaway’ in a relaxing, small-group, retreat setting where you will learn and experience self-care methods for yourself, and ultimately how to teach effective self-care to your patients. Learning self-care principles can help cultivate self-compassion, prevent practitioner burnout, promote longevity and vitality in work-life balance. Learn how to empower your patients with self-care techniques resulting in enhanced quality of care, and help create overall balanced health and well being both for yourself and your patients. You will learn a variety of techniques and practical tips to immediately integrate into your daily routine at your workplace and at home. You will participate in yoga practices including meditation and mindfulness techniques, pranayama (breath practices), asana (physical poses), and other movement integrated with yoga philosophy to address components of self-care and compassion that can help inspire you on your path to restore balance, vitality, peace, and reconnection to your authentic self and purpose. Retreat Intentions: Define self-compassion and the difference between indulgence and self-esteem and why self-compassion is a key component of overall health and wellness for yourself and your patients. Learn the heuristic model of compassion and understand how it can be used to enhance quality of care in the clinical setting. Learn alternative paths to prime, cultivate and enhance compassion towards ourselves and others. Define burnout (BO) and compassion fatigue (CF), particularly as it relates to the health care practitioner. Outline 2 models of burnout including risk factors, warning signs, stages and characteristics. Compare compassion satisfaction vs compassion fatigue. Learn how integrating yoga into your professional practice and your personal life may help improve compassion satisfaction, prevent practitioner BO + CF, and optimize quality of care for patients. Learn a variety of self-care techniques and practical tips that you can share with your patients and also immediately integrate into your own daily home and workplace routine. Valuable resources will be included. Participate in yoga practices including a variety of meditation and mindfulness techniques, pranayama (breath practices), asana (physical poses), and other movement practices integrated with yoga philosophy to help cultivate compassion towards yourself, others, and to inspire and empower yourself and your patients to reconnect to peace, purpose, and a sense of joy for life. TO REGISTER: CLICK HERE Limited to 14 registrants – please email [email protected] to reserve your spot prior to mailing your registration form *Payment due at time of registration / Payment is non-refundable* Included in cost: Course tuition, lodging, food and the Scandinave Spa Audience: This course is open to all health care professionals – physiotherapists, physiotherapy students, physiotherapy assistants, occupational therapists, chiropractors, naturopathic doctors, massage therapists, registered kinesiologists, medical doctors, nurses and midwives.

$895 – $975

Yoga in Healthcare: Pre-Conference Event Montreal International Symposium on Therapeutic Yoga

Le Westin Montreal Hotel 270, St-Antoine O., Montreal, QC, Canada

Please join us, the "Yoga in Healthcare" initiative, for a special Pre-Conference Event at the Montreal International Symposium on Therapeutic Yoga (MISTY): March 17, 2017 10:00-4:00 If you use yoga as a healthcare professional, such as but not limited to PT, OT, AT, RN, MD, PA, FNP, LCSW, or other health professional, then THIS DAY IS FOR YOU! For more details and to register for the pre-conference event, and the entire MISTY conference weekend (March 17-19), please CLICK HERE Yoga In Healthcare MISSION: To provide an independent organization for the preservation of, education of, and contribution to, yoga as evidence-based practice in our healthcare system. The Yoga in Healthcare (YIH) Initiative serves as a platform to educate others as to who we are (health care professionals using yoga therapeutically), what we do in our respective clinical practices, and why yoga in healthcare and its various services are valuable, unique and fall under our own professional scope of practices. To learn more about YIH please visit YIH at MISTY and our Facebook page: "Yoga in Healthcare: A Global Call to Action"

$100

VANCOUVER: Creating Pelvic Power: Through Feet, Throat, + Pelvic Floor

Stretch Yoga Studio Vancouver 180 E. Pender St, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Creating Pelvic Power: through Feet, Throat and Pelvic Floor: VANCOUVER, BC, Canada: Your pelvic floor plays an important role, not only in bladder, bowel, reproduction and sexual function, but also in hip function, breathing, core strategies, standing balance and more! The pelvic floor is also known to be intimately connected to the feet and the floor of the mouth. Pelvic health issues related to these many roles are commonly poorly addressed or often left untreated in both women and men. Join Shelly Prosko, Physical Therapist and Professional Yoga Therapist for this one day pelvic floor health PhysioYoga workshop for healthcare professionals and yoga therapists/teachers at Stretch Yoga Studio in Vancouver, BC. This inspiring, educational and FUN session will include lecture and practice. We will explore evidence surrounding the physical, emotional, psychosocial and spiritual factors that influence pelvic floor function and combine it with aspects of yoga (asana, meditation, pranayama, philosophy) and physiotherapy exercises that can be safely and effectively used immediately to address and maintain optimal pelvic health! Shelly Prosko, Physical Therapist, Professional Yoga Therapist & Pilates Instructor, is a highly respected leader and pioneer in the area of PhysioYoga Therapy, a combination of Physical Therapy and Medical Therapeutic Yoga. Shelly's mission is to educate, inspire and empower people to create health by authentically sharing her skills, knowledge and expertise as she travels internationally offering specialty PhysioYoga Therapy courses, presenting at international conferences, lecturing at University Programs, instructing at Yoga Teacher Trainings and Yoga Therapy Schools and offering individual treatment. *This session is for healthcare professionals, yoga teachers/therapists, and other movement professionals with an interest in learning more about pelvic floor health and yoga.* **This session is NOT intended to assess or treat or act as medical advice. Please seek guidance and treatment from your licensed health professional in your area for any unmanaged conditions.** Objectives and learning outcomes: Theory briefly overview the anatomy and biomechanics of the pelvic, respiratory, and vocal diaphragms learn the factors that contribute to performance and function of the pelvic floor, using the pancha maya kosha model or biopsychosocial-spiritual approach learn how the respiratory diaphragm, pelvic floor, and vocal diaphragm all work together as a coordinated team and can potentially influence pelvic health and wellness discuss the first 2 chakras and discuss the role they may play in pelvic health define and discuss the 4 categories of pelvic floor health dysfunctions discuss the debate surrounding the performance of kegel exercises for pelvic floor health and rehabilitation using a best evidence approach discuss Mula Bandha (MB) including developing an understanding of the intention of MB and the differences and similarities to pelvic floor engagement outline factors that may contribute to a Non-Relaxing Pelvic Floor and health issues that may arise from over-recruitment of pelvic floor musculature outline different paths of yoga, including the 8 limbed path of Raja yoga, and how the components of the paths can contribute to a biopsychosocial-spiritual approach to pelvic floor health and rehabilitation Practical Session learn and experience breathing methods and meditation techniques as they relate to pelvic floor health, with a focus on awareness and relaxation of pelvic floor muscles discover and practice awareness of pelvic diaphragmatic excursion by integrating physiotherapy exercises, Pilates and yoga (mindful movement, breathing and meditation) learn and participate in activities that include components of the core strategy system that have been shown to influence pelvic floor muscle engagement and function, including hip and lumbo-pelvic strategies, through the use of physiotherapy exercises, Pilates, yoga postures (asanas) and breathing methods learn and experience how the voice, respiratory and pelvic diaphragms work together through breath, movement and vocalization participate in activities to enhance foot awareness and potential connection to the pelvic floor

$230