Integrating Evidence Based Practices into Your Treatment

Restoration Room 6502 East Speedway Boulevard Tucson, AZ, 85710 United States (map)

Yoga is Therapy
Integrating Evidence Based Practices in Your Treatment

w/ Jaimie Perkunas DPT, C-IAYT

AZ Physical Therapy approved 8 CEUs

For Physical Therapists - Physical Therapist Assistants- Occupational Therapists - Occupational Therapist Assistants - Registered Nurses

Demonstrate breathwork practices that create a parasympathetic response.
Explain how changes in the nervous system effects persistent pain
Implement verbal cues with mindfulness languaging and mind body awareness into treatment session
Create a plan of care and home exercises program that include yoga techniques
Apply a 5 kosha view with intake questions & postural assessment
Develop yoga informed treatment plans for a variety of diagnoses, low back pain, hypermobility, neck pain, hip pain, shoulder pain
State the evidence based benefits of yoga and mindfulness techniques

7:30 - 8:00 - Sign in - Introductions

8:00- 9:30 - Lecture/Powerpoint: Yoga Physiology - 8 limbs, 5 koshas, Bring Yogic View into Healthcare

9:30 - 10:00 - Small Group Discussion - Developing questions from 5 koshas, ways to bring yogic view into patient sessions

10:00 - 12:00 - Lecture/Experience - Breathwork for pain management/nervous system regulation

12-1pm LUNCH BREAK

1 - 2pm Experiential learning: Introduction to Yoga Nidra & Meditation

2 - 3:30pm Experiential learning: Posture, poses for common conditions - hypermobility, low back/hip pain, shoulder/neck pain

3:30 - 4:30pm Case Studies

4:30 - 5pm - Practice teaching yoga techniques.

5pm - Evaluation/Dismissal