In our recent study we found yoga teachers tend towards a protective, rather than progressive, approach to teaching yoga to people with pain. A small shift in knowledge could makes their work more effective. ...
In our recent study we found yoga teachers already play an intuitive role in regional pain management. However their efficacy could be improved by filling some gaps in knowledge about pain science. ...
Physiotherapist Anna Struyven uses a Yoga for Pain approach to help her elderly clients improve their quality of life. ...
1 in 5 people have persistent pain, which means it affects you or someone you love. Yoga can help, but not in the way you'd think....
Yoga for Pain Practitioner Theresa Venz is now offering yoga for children and young people with persisting pain at Perth Paediatric Therapy Services. ...
We summarise research into yoga and pain and give the practical implications for yoga teachers and health care providers. This is one of few studies that examine the personal experience of pain, rather than measuring clinical symptoms and function....
As more studios offer gentle yoga classes and open them up to people with pain, we explain how you can 'do gentle' for more than just the sake of it. ...
As more studios offer, with kind intention, gentle yoga classes that welcome people with pain, we explain why a pain-friendly class is not the same as “all-welcome” and why it's important to act with informed kindness when it comes to pain....
If you are a yoga teacher in country or regional Australia (i.e. anywhere outside a major city) we would be extremely grateful if you would answer a few questions to help us better understand how your work. Psychology student Amelia Reynolds is researching the role yoga...
To increase pain care options for regional Australia we are running the next Yoga for Pain Training module in Bunbury. We are offering a bursary for one yoga teacher who will need to travel to Bunbury from elsewhere in the southwest or great southern, and intends...
