Yoga for Pain Care Australia | For health professionals & yoga teachers

24 May The importance of subtlety, timing and faith in pain and fibromyalgia

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Like the tortoise in Aesop’s fable, slow and steady wins the race in fibromyalgia, pain and the pursuit of a meaningful life. Here are three things yoga can teach us about taking it slow without getting stuck at the startline. Welcome subtlety Timothy McCall introduces us to...

24 Apr What is good movement?

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With science confirming that standing up straighter won't reduce your pain and that simply building muscle isn't the answer either, what exactly is good movement? Somatics practices like Feldenkrais and Body-Mind Centering help us build body awareness (interoception as well as proprioception) and movement nerds following...

24 Apr If you don’t have persistent pain you can get by with rubbish movement

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If you don't have persistent pain you’ll probably cope perfectly well with a yoga class that's a bit beyond you. In the unlikely event that you injure yourself, time and rest should eventually allow you to return to a more appropriate class (or persevere with...

07 Apr Yoga for Pain is like learning maths

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Five years talking with people with persistent pain about their needs, and interviews with Australian pain clinics, revealed a big gap that yoga could fill: people with persistent pain needed support transitioning into ordinary life after medical care. ...

06 Oct How to teach yoga to the 1 in 5 Australians with persistent pain

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This recently published article by Rachael West featured in the Yoga Australia Spring Edition. You can read the whole article on page 26 of the full magazine here, or read it below. Learn how pain works to help you keep clients A growing body of evidence shows...

19 Sep Why we summarise research that seems to have nothing to do with yoga

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At Yoga for Pain Care Australia we summarise the growing body of evidence that shows the positive effect of yoga on persistent pain, from back pain to fibromyalgia to multiple sclerosis. You will notice we occasionally write about research that seems to have nothing to do...

23 Mar What’s the difference between pain-specific and pain-friendly yoga classes?

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Yoga can help people with pain reduce symptoms, keep up exercise and develop personally. You will need different classes at different stages of your pain journey. Here are some guidelines to help you choose the most appropriate pain-sensitive yoga class for you. Pain-Specific Yoga Classes   Help...

01 Dec How a 5000 year old philosophy can help your 21st century health practice

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In our first six months, 37 physiotherapists, yoga teachers, occupational therapists and other health professionals from three states in Australia and New Zealand completed the 2.5-day Yoga for Pain Preliminaries Training. What exactly can you expect in this course, and how can it help your work as a health care provider?

23 Jul National Pain Week Podcast 4: what could your role be?

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In this episode, learn what social enterprise is and how it can help us come up with creative ways to help people the 1 in 5 Australians with pain....

22 Jul National Pain Week podcast 3: Yoga in pain care – making it sustainable

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In the third of a series of podcasts during National Pain Week 2015, Rachael reflects on how to consider yoga as more than a set of techniques that can help with the symptoms of pain and in doing so, begin a more sustainable form of...

For health professionals & yoga teachers

24 May The importance of subtlety, timing and faith in pain and fibromyalgia

24 Apr What is good movement?

24 Apr If you don’t have persistent pain you can get by with rubbish movement

07 Apr Yoga for Pain is like learning maths

06 Oct How to teach yoga to the 1 in 5 Australians with persistent pain

19 Sep Why we summarise research that seems to have nothing to do with yoga

23 Mar What’s the difference between pain-specific and pain-friendly yoga classes?

01 Dec How a 5000 year old philosophy can help your 21st century health practice

22 Jul National Pain Week podcast 3: Yoga in pain care – making it sustainable

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