Yoga Therapeutics in Physiotherapy:
Shelly guest lectures at the College of Medicine, School of Physiotherapy on yoga therapeutics in the physiotherapy profession
Saskatoon: Core Power: The 3 Diaphragms of Health + Fitness
Join Shelly Prosko, Physical Therapist and Professional Yoga Therapist, for this highly sought after PhysioYoga workshop where you will learn about the three diaphragms of your core system and experience how they all work together as a coordinated team to contribute to your overall fitness, performance, health and wellness. We will discuss and explore the mechanics and physiology of breathing and the most common inefficient breathing patterns in our culture and how they can lead to suboptimal fitness levels that result in physical, mental, emotional and energetic imbalances in our bodies. Come learn and explore how your respiratory diaphragm, pelvic floor, and voice can be used to influence your overall function and well being.
This workshop is a combination of evidence based theory with a fun and inspiring yoga practice consisting of movement, meditation, philosophy and breathing practices.
**This workshop is not intended to assess or treat or act as medical advice. Please seek guidance and treatment from your health professional in your area for any unmanaged conditions.**
In this module you’ll learn about the pelvic floor anatomy, understand the role of the pelvic floor and how yoga practices can improve function.
The anatomy and yoga therapy component is delivered by Shelly Prosko, Canadian physiotherapist, yoga therapist and pelvic health expert.
You’ll then use principles of yogic education to apply the material to your own work, hear stories from people with a history of pelvic pain, and understand the support that is presently available to them in the community.
This module is delivered via online delivery to ensure practitioners in all locations can participate. You will receive notes ahead of time and followup summaries and links to support your learning.
Open to all Yoga for Pain Practitioners who have completed Yoga for Pain Foundations Level Training.
Outcomes for health professionals
Learn about yogic models for understanding health and how you can use these to consider your pelvic pain patients’ physical and psychosocial wellbeing. You also hear from world expert yoga therapist Shelly Prosko who has been integrating physiotherapy, yoga therapy and yoga for nearly 20 years.
Threaded throughout is the Yogic Education framework that helps bridge yoga and health care, while helping you to better understand the depth and breadth of your clients’ needs, and how you can help.
Outcomes for yoga teachers
You will have a greater understanding of the pelvic floor anatomy, what pelvic floor health can be, and what dysfunction can mean, physiologically and emotionally. We also cover yoga techniques and methods for improving pelvic floor health, and further refine your skill at using Yogic Education frameworks to work with specific groups.
Course content
Brief overview of pelvic floor anatomy
Roles of the pelvic floor
4 main categories of pelvic floor dysfunction, with a focus on pelvic pain
Overview of factors that may influence pelvic pain and pelvic floor function, and how pelvic floor health translates to overall health (from a biopsychosocial perspective)
How yoga methods may help optimize pelvic floor function and pelvic pain reduction/management (parallels between biopsychosocial and panch maya kosha frameworks)
Practical/experiential component: focus on pain reduction/management yoga methods for pelvic pain dysfunction, including awareness practices and positionsor movements to help enhance natural excursion of the pelvic floor and reduce the over active, non-relaxing pelvic floor
Basic foundational information and practical tools for yoga teachers, therapists and health care practitioners to understand how yoga can effectively and safely be used for people suffering from pelvic floor dysfunctions, with a particular focus on pain
Interview with Vanessa Watson, a former nurse who has experienced pudendal neuralgia for more than 10 years
Overview of the main support services available to women with pelvic pain
