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Clinical Yoga for Therapists

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Dates: Bristol 1st Sept
           London 8th Sept 
Tutor: Gill Hurst
Price: £90
Venue: Bristol and London venue to be confirmed
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Clinical Yoga for Therapists

Time: 9am till 5 pm
This Course is taught By Gill Hurst a highly experienced Yoga practitioner and Physiotherapist.


Yoga and mindfulness practices are being increasingly recognised for their role in healthcare strategies. This course offers clarification of how these  approaches may be applied to enhance our clinical practice in the treatment of musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction and their related psycho-physical symptoms. It offers an opportunity to re-frame our perspective on ‘holistic’ medicine and how this can be integrated effectively whilst being supported by clinical and scientific rationale.


What is Yoga? What is mindfulness?
The theoretical background and their relationships are discussed.

What are the parallels with western and eastern models of health?
We can understand both methods in the mirror of one another whilst analysing the gaps.

How can Yoga and a ‘mindfulness’ approaches enhance current clinical practice?  There are tools and perspectives to add to what we do in order to evolve an increasingly sophisticated approach.

The effect of Yoga (such as postures, breath and meditation) is discussed with reference to physiology, such as the myofascial system.

There will be discussion on a ‘mindfulness’ approach to managing pain and illness  and how this can be woven effectively into management.

Current evidence will be presented around yoga-based’ treatments’  for pain and dysfunction.

Learn a range of basic ‘asanas’ or yoga strategies that may be administered for musculoskeletal conditions – when they are applicable, how to teach them, modify them for anyone and progress them as part of a rehab programme. This will be practised in the session in order to understand the poses within your own body as a practitioner- as this is the only way to teach them effectively and with adaptability.Questions on individual case scenarios?  Concerns around our own boundaries? How do we tap into and refer to outside resources within our current ‘work’ logistics?

All inquiry and interaction is welcomed and will increase the relevance of this vast subject to your own practice.

A formula is not being presented. It is a course designed to facilitate a re-framing of what and why we are doing what we do. There will be tools to add to your repertoire that address the whole person and the whole situation that presents itself to us. This approach aligns with ‘new’ scientific findings around an outlook of health and wellness- of- being that can be achieved amidst the most complex of physical circumstances.

This is part of an evolution in healthcare.

 Do we chose to be part of the process?