ONLINE VIDEO PRACTICES:

Creating Pelvic Floor Health with PhysioYoga

 Free Bonus Feature: Toilet Meditation (with purchase)

Title Duration Buy
Part A: Pelvic Floor Muscle Relaxation – Creating Pelvic Floor Health 40:13 CA$19.91
Part B: Pelvic Floor Muscle Engagement – Creating Pelvic Floor Health 40:15 CA$19.91
All episodes CA$31.99

Everyone has a pelvic floor! I hope you enjoy these beautiful yoga video practices created for you.

Your pelvic floor is an important part of your bladder, bowel, reproduction, and sexual health. I wanted to offer something that allowed me to share what I have learned over the years as a physical therapist and yoga therapist helping men and women optimize their pelvic floor health and function.

These practices address the roles your pelvic floor also plays in breathing, posture, hip function, core strategies, and standing balance ability. They are filmed in breathtaking nature settings with spectacular cinematography and soulful music uniquely created with special care and attention to the intentions of each practice.

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ONLINE VIDEO CLASS SERIES:

Balance Flow Yoga

Balance Flow Yoga

Join Shelly Prosko, physiotherapist and yoga therapist, for this 7-session online class series as she guides you through the key yoga practices and principles used in the Balance Flow Yoga intervention that she co-developed for a recent study at the University of Saskatchewan evaluating the effect of yoga on fall risk factors and injury risk.

Injury and fall risk factors addressed in this series include:

  • balance
  • pelvic floor function
  • upper body mobility
  • strength (upper and lower extremities)
  • landing capacity
  • balance confidence
  • core strategy and timing (includes how we breathe!)
To gain access to these recorded classes, and practice at your own pace

 

ONLINE VIDEO CLASS SERIES:

Self-Compassion in Pain Care:

 Body-Mind-Breath Practices for People in Pain

Download and receive lifetime access to this 4-part class series on practicing self-compassion through gentle guided movement, mindfulness, breathing and reflective practices.

Whether you are a person who lives with pain or a professional who works with people in pain, this class series is an opportunity to explore, learn and experience gentle practices guided by Shelly whose teaching is informed by her decades of professional and clinical experience, compassion research, pain science, life experience, and Pain Care Aware™ principles integrating yoga, pain science, and individual’s lived experiences of pain that has been generously shared over the years.

To learn more about this series and to download the classes CLICK HERE

 

ONLINE GUIDED MEDITATIONS:

Guided Meditations with Shelly Prosko

 Free Bonus Feature: Toilet Meditation (with purchase)

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Self-Compassion Body Scan 15:41 CA$7.99

Self-Compassion + Courage Meditation

11:06 CA$7.99

Breath Awareness Practice

07:01 CA$7.99

Breath Control Practice

06:31 CA$7.99
All episodes CA$19.98

Welcome! I hope you enjoy and find great value in these guided meditations I created for you.

My intention in sharing these practices is to help people cultivate more awareness, presence, connection, regulation and self-compassion.

Research shows that mindfulness meditative practices such as these can help with things like pain, stress management, emotional and mental health and resilience, ability to focus and concentrate, and even improve compassion towards yourself and others.

This series includes 4 guided audio practices:

1) Self-Compassion Body Scan
2) Self-Compassion and Courage Meditation
3) Breath Awareness practice
4) Breath Control practice

You can download each of these onto your device and access at any time.

These mindful practices are created to be suitable and safe to follow. However, they are not meant to act as medical advice or as treatment for any conditions. Please seek guidance, advice and treatment from your licensed healthcare professional for any unmanaged conditions or symptoms (physical, mental, emotional) you may be experiencing before starting or continuing these practices.

As a physiotherapist and yoga therapist, I’ve worked with many people over the past 20+ years who have experienced the vast and impactful benefits that these practices can provide.

I’m really glad that I now have the opportunity to share these with more people, like you!

Enjoy!

ONLINE COURSE:

PhysioYoga and the Pelvic Floor with Shelly Prosko

Audience: Rehab Professionals (PT, PTA, OT, OTA, AT, ET, Kin, etc), movement specialists, yoga teachers, yoga therapists, and those interested in learning more about yoga and pelvic floor health and wellness.

Register HERE

This online course is available to do at your own pace and offers a combo of theory and practical and accessible yoga methods and philosophy to enhance overall pelvic floor health and wellness.

This course outlines evidence surrounding biopsychosocial factors that influence pelvic floor function and explores why and how yoga can serve as a valuable adjunct to pelvic wellness and rehabilitation.

Be prepared to participate and enjoy empowering, informative and inspiring yoga practices that you can immediately use with your patients or students, including: -pelvic floor awareness practices
-visualization
-mindfulness meditation practices
-breathing practices in yoga postures to help promote pelvic floor relaxation
-mindful movements timed with breath to help facilitate pelvic floor muscle engagement and excursion
-examples of language and yoga philosophy used to potentially enhance more effective cueing

Whether you are a pelvic floor physiotherapist looking to expand your current approach or a brand new practitioner wanting to learn more about the pelvic floor, this course is meant to help support you on your path to learning more about how yoga can address pelvic floor health in an evidence informed manner.

REGISTER HERE

WEBINAR:

Practitioner Self-Care During Challenging Times


Join Shelly Prosko, physiotherapist and yoga therapist, for this online course on tips and practices to cultivate self-care, which Shelly presents as an ongoing dynamic process of skills that involves self-compassion, insight, courage and action. Self-care and self-compassion are not selfish nor soft skills – they are life skills that help us have the inner resources available to care for and serve others in a sustainable way.Self-compassion is shown to be associated with positive health effects such as reduced symptoms of anxiety, depression, less ruminating thoughts, less fear of failure, and increased emotional resiliency, stress management, and adaptive coping strategies during challenging times.Learn how we can cultivate self-care and compassion in our daily lives, amidst uncertainty and adversity, and help carve a healthy path forward that may be sustained beyond tumultuous times.
Access HERE

 

ONLINE RESOURCE PACKAGE:

PhysioYoga and The Pelvic Floor Audio and Video Practices for Your Patients

This PhysioYoga and the Pelvic Floor Resource Package includes a total of 6 hours of a variety of guided video and audio practices for you to choose from and share with your patients, without any cost to your patients. The practices include key components of integrating yoga into pelvic rehabilitation and wellness care in order to augment a whole-person centered approach.
The length of time of each practice segment varies, ranging from 2 minutes to 20 minutes.
The entire library of practices in this Resource Package are created and led by physiotherapist, yoga therapist, PhysioYoga pioneer, continuing education provider and clinician, Shelly Prosko.
For details about the practices provided in this Resource Package and to gain access CLICK HERE

 

*To gain a deeper understanding of the theory and indications for using these practices and for optimizing patient outcomes, it is recommended to enroll in the full 14 hour course PhysioYoga and the Pelvic Floor.

 

WEBINAR:

The Role of the Pelvic Floor in Balance and Movement

Prosko happy treeBalance is a commonly overlooked component of health and wellness. Falls are the #1 cause of injuries in older adults in Canada and are considered a public health concern worldwide.
There are many factors that contribute to our balance capacity, and we don’t have to wait until our elder years to address them!

We know the pelvic floor plays key roles in bowel, bladder, sexual and reproductive function. It also plays an important role in how we move, sustain our balance and perform core strategies.
However, how the pelvic floor behaves for optimal balance and efficient movement is nuanced and deserves discussion.

Shelly Prosko, physiotherapist and yoga therapist, presents this informative webinar highlighting the components of the intervention she co-developed for a recent research project surrounding the effects of various yoga principles, practices, specific cueing and instructions used on known fall risk factors such as incontinence, balance, balance confidence, strength and mobility.

To learn more and access this webinar CLICK HERE

WEBINAR:

Breathing and Pranayama in Chronic Pain Care

webinarMany people in pain report breathing as one of the most impactful aspects of their therapy and many yoga therapists view breathing practices as foundational to effective pain care. We know that pain can change all aspects of our existence, including the way we breathe. This webinar will help you gain a deeper understanding of the effects of pain on breathing, and breathing on pain.

Join Shelly to learn and experience how breathing practices can be an accessible, easy, safe and effective treatment strategy to modulate pain that can give the person in pain a sense of self-efficacy and empowerment in their pain care.

To learn more and purchase this webinar with lifetime access CLICK HERE

*This webinar is a part of the larger book club webinar series, Yoga and Science in Pain Care: Treating the Person in Pain. You can choose to register for individual chapter sessions HERE or you can register for the entire series at a discount HERE

WEBINAR:

Compassion in Pain Care

Compassionate pain care is more than just extending kindness towards people in pain.

It involves the dynamic process of gaining a more in-depth understanding of the needs of the person in pain and ourselves; then choosing the best responses, within the context of the situation.

Compassionate care also means having the skills to facilitate self-compassion in our patients and in ourselves.

Without compassion for the person in pain, we cannot form an effective therapeutic relationship. And without practising self-compassion, it is difficult to continue helping people with this complex phenomenon of pain.

Research shows the capacity for providing and receiving compassion can vary and depend on many factors.

Fortunately, growing research also suggests compassion can be trained and can improve pain care and protect against practitioner burnout and empathic distress.

Join Shelly Prosko as she leads this online course. She will provide a guiding path to enhance compassion that can improve pain care and the health and wellbeing of ourselves and those we serve.

To learn more and purchase this webinar with lifetime access CLICK HERE

*This webinar is a part of the larger book club webinar series, Yoga and Science in Pain Care: Treating the Person in Pain. You can choose to register for individual chapter sessions HERE or you can register for the entire series at a discount HERE

PRE-RECORDED COURSE:

Yoga and Science in Pain Care Book Club Webinar Series

book coverAre you looking for ways to better help people in pain? If you are, you’re not alone. It is estimated that over 1.5 billion people worldwide are affected by chronic pain. That’s 20.5% of the world population that is suffering and needs your help.

Join Neil Pearson, Shelly Prosko and Marlysa Sullivan, the co-editors of Yoga and Science in Pain Care, and 8 co-authors for the first ever 15-part book club series!

Explore the complexity of the pain experience, dive deeper into pain care, review important knowledge and learn about the practical applications through case studies or experiential techniques with the chapter authors of Yoga and Science in Pain Care. What you will learn can be effectively applied via virtual and in-person consults.

To learn more about the book club webinar series including what you can expect, the learning objectives, who it’s best suited for and to purchase CLICK HERE 

*You can choose to register for individual chapter sessions HERE or you can register for the entire series at a discount HERE

WEBINAR:

Yoga, Neuroplasticity and Pain: New Hope for Self-Empowerment and Healing

Pain is a complex and troublesome human experience that involves the body, mind, emotions and spirit. Pain strikes everyone from time to time, but millions of people suffer with pain year in and year out.

According to modern pain neuroscience, however, we may have greater influence over the experience of pain than previously thought. One of the best ways to safely and effectively manage the pain experience is to better understand its mechanism in the light of new insights into brain neuroplasticity.

Join physical therapists and yoga therapists Neil Pearson and Shelly Prosko for a 3-part webinar (two live lectures and a yoga practice) on what modern neuroscience and yoga research teaches us about the ability to change pain, even in people with complex pain conditions.  Yoga offers numerous techniques that are useful for managing pain, and it can provide the lived experience that pain can be changed, and that we can learn to move with ease in the face of pain.

Neil and Shelly will discuss the physiology of pain from the perspective of new findings on neuroplasticity and pain, and also will guide you in a series of yoga techniques that can be helpful to change the experience of pain.

Because each of us is very unique, there is no specific protocol or yoga sequence for ‘yoga for pain’; but the concepts can be translated to any asana practice or individual. The techniques can be modified to suit the type of yoga class or the individual and are equally important for injury prevention as well as pain care.

What you will learn:

  • The purpose of pain, and the meaning of pain intensity, quality and location.
  • How neurons respond to potentially and actually dangerous inputs.
  • How neurons in the body, spinal cord and brain adapt in the face of persisting pain.
  • How functions of the nervous systems are influenced by all other body systems.
  • Why the pain experience is changeable and how.
  • The importance of starting with the basics of breath awareness and body awareness and the best techniques to use.
  • Techniques for calming the nervous system and challenging your current response to pain.
  • What pain science teaches us about injury prevention, and how to move and perform asana safely when experiencing pain.

This Premium Course Also Includes These Bonuses!

  • Yoga Practice for Chronic Pain with Neil and Shelly. Enjoy a soothing practice excerpted from Neil and Shelly’s DVD with yoga for pain relief. Experience for yourself how to structure a yoga practice centered around enchancing somatic awareness, one important step towards resetting the body’s pain response.
  • Recordings of Course Sessions. Yours to keep! The recorded course sessions will be available in your YogaU Dashboard after the course to add to your digital library of yoga training. View online as streaming video files or download the mp3 files for listening on the road.
  • Transcripts of the Course Sessions. Follow the transcripts with recordings and take notes, refer back to important passages, or use the transcripts for easy memorizing–transcripts are a great learning tool for integrating and retaining the course information.

Purchase this webinar HERE

FREE WEBINAR:

Yoga Therapy: Hope and Possibility for People in Chronic Pain

Shelly Prosko, PT, CPI, C-IAYT specializes in helping people with chronic pain.

In this video, Shelly shares how chronic (persistent) pain is complex with many different factors. Yoga therapy, which is accessible, empowering, low cost and effective, can be a part of your comprehensive pain management solution.

After an educational talk, Shelly takes you through a 20 min experiential practice using her approach to working with people experiencing chronic pain.


INTERVIEW:

Yoga and Science in Pain Care

Amy Wheeler, PhD, President of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, interviews Neil Pearson, Shelly Prosko and Marlysa Sullivan, co-editors/authors of the textbook Yoga and Science in Pain Care. They discuss the science surrounding pain, recovering movement amidst pain, yoga as a compassionate practice in pain care, eudaimonia, their white paper on yoga therapy and pain, and more.

MEDTalk:

Integration of Yoga into Healthcare with Shelly Prosko

In this 1 hour MEDTalk presentation, Shelly talks about how Yoga and Yoga Therapy can be safely and effectively integrated into healthcare to help people with a variety of health conditions, including chronic/persistent pain, progress towards improved health and well-being. She outlines yoga practices that can offer accessible options that can be integrated into any rehabilitation program in the clinic or used independently at home as part of one’s pain care plan. Yoga therapy offers a framework that is whole person-centered, compassionate and evidence-informed.


FREE WEBINAR:

Compassion: The Foundation of Pain Care

Compassion in pain care is more than just extending kindness towards people in pain. It involves gaining a more in-depth understanding and insight into the needs of those we serve (the person in pain) and ourselves (the health provider) and choosing responses that serve both, within the context of the situation. Growing research demonstrates the value of providing and receiving compassion (including self-compassion) for those living with persistent pain and for health care providers.In this free webinar, Shelly Prosko explores the role of compassion in pain care, highlighting the benefits and challenges health care providers face that can influence or inhibit the ability to offer compassion to people living with pain. She also offers insight into best practices for providing compassionate care and discusses her book chapter “Compassion in Pain Care” in Yoga and Science in Pain Care: Treating the Person in Pain that can be found HERE.

FREE WEBINAR:

Cultivating Compassion: A Path Forward in Difficult Times

Compassion and self-compassion are shown to be associated with positive health effects such as reduced symptoms of anxiety and increased adaptive coping strategies in difficult times. Learn how we can cultivate compassion in our daily lives, amidst uncertainty and adversity, and help carve a healthy path forward that may be sustained beyond tumultuous times.  Access HERE

FREE WEBINAR:

Yoga in Rehabilitation

Join Shelly Prosko, physiotherapist and yoga therapist, as she discusses the integration of yoga into rehabilitation and the value this offers both the patient and the professional, including the gaps this type of approach can potentially fill.

 

 

 

FREE WEBINAR:

Self-Care and Self-Compassion for People in Pain

Join Shelly Prosko on the Bill Nelems Pain & Research Centre for this 1.5 hour session for people with chronic pain. Shelly discusses the benefits of self-compassion within people in pain, the misconceptions surrounding “self” care vs supported self-care, the barriers to self-compassion, tips for training, and guides the audience through some practices to participate in.

FREE WEBINAR:

Yoga Therapy: A Contribution to Comprehensive Pain Care

Shelly’s presentation at the 14th Annual Pain Society of Alberta Conference was on the topic of the value and role that yoga therapy can play as an accessible, cost-effective, evidence-informed, biopsychosocial-spiritual, patient-centered and empowering approach to comprehensive pain care. A growing number of medical professionals are recommending yoga to their patients and an increasing number of clinicians are integrating it into their practice. There is good evidence that supports the integration of yoga therapy into various specialty areas, particularly in the area of chronic pain.


FREE WEBINAR:

Self-Compassion: Redefining Self-Care in Pain Care

In this 1.5-hour webinar for the Bill Nelems Pain and Research Centre, Shelly guides you through mindfulness practices, a self-compassion meditation, a practice to explore your values and shares a list of ideas of simple practical tools to integrate into your daily life.

Shelly unpacks the concept of “self-care” and the many misconceptions surrounding self-compassion and the vast benefits it can have in pain care.