Subtle® Yoga for Chronic Pain: A One-Day Introduction
Mar 15, 2024 Closed Mental Health
Description
Chronic pain poses a significant public health problem which is complex, difficult to treat and—according to some estimates—costing the U.S. more than $600 billion a year. Because of the risk of opioid abuse, addiction, and diversion in the treatment of chronic pain, a broad and integrated approach is essential. Chronic pain is best understood as a psychophysiological behavior pattern that eschews separation into distinct, independent psychosocial and physical components. An approach to chronic pain that incorporates evidence-based somatic and cognitive interventions such as yoga can help clients reduce stress, control pain, and use less medication.
Research has demonstrated that chronic pain alters brain structure by decreasing gray matter volume and reducing the integrity of white matter connectivity. According to Catherine Bushnell, scientific director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), "Practicing yoga has the opposite effect on the brain as does chronic pain."
In this one-day workshop, participants will learn Subtle® Yoga techniques which can help reduce chronic pain and foster neuroplasticity—including chair yoga practices, meditation, breathing practices, grounding, and self massage. The opportunity to practice yoga during the workshop will help participants learn to guide basic yoga techniques, which may improve client outcomes.
Subtle® Yoga courses are a unique offering of holistically oriented, mind-body behavioral healthcare. You are welcome to take any Subtle® Yoga modules on an individual basis (as multiple or solo trainings) or in any order, except for the Subtle® Yoga Teacher Training for Behavioral Health Professionals: Teaching Yoga to Individuals and Groups (RYT200), which begins Winter/Spring of 2025. If you would like to attend this training, you must fulfill pre-requisites 1-4 (listed below) before attending #5 (also below), which is the full teacher training. The combined hours of the trainings listed below may qualify participants to apply for registration with the Yoga Alliance as a 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT), an accrediting organization independent of MAHEC and Subtle Yoga, should they choose to do so after completing all MAHEC courses.
1. Any one of the following One-Day Introductions:
(a) February 16, 2024 - Subtle® Yoga for Trauma Recovery: A One-Day Introduction
(b) March 15, 2024 - Subtle® Yoga for Chronic Pain: A One-Day Introduction
(c) April 12, 2024 - Subtle® Yoga for Positive Mental Health: Brief Interventions
2. September 12-13, 2024 - Applying Subtle® Yoga in Clinical Practice (you may substitute 2 of the above one-day trainings for this two-day requirement)
3. October 17-19, 2024 - Subtle® Yoga for Behavioral Health Intensive: Anxiety and Depression
4. November 7-9, 2024 - Subtle® Yoga for Behavioral Health Intensive: Trauma, Addiction, and Recovery
5. February 20-23, 2025 / March 13-16, 2025 / April 10-13, 2025 / May 15-18, 2025 - Subtle® Yoga Teacher Training Certification for Behavioral Health Professionals: Teaching Yoga to Individuals and Groups (Four, 4-day Trainings with 102.0 Hours and 4.0 Ethics Hours)
Subtle® Yoga is an exceptionally adaptable, person-centered approach to yoga practice that may be tailored to meet the needs of clients with differing abilities. It fosters the development of attention and promotes spiritual development in the context of any belief system. Please dress in layers and wear comfortable clothing in which you may freely move. You are welcome to bring a yoga mat.
"It's interesting that right now there are about six to ten million people in America who practice yoga… They've discovered that there's something they can do to regulate their internal systems."
- Bessel van der Kolk, MD author, "The Body Keeps the Score"
Group Rate Available
Five or more from same agency, registering & paying at same time
(add $15 to fee if registering within one week of the event)
Please use the paper registration form at the end of the PDF brochure. Send completed paper registrations for the full group to the Registration Team at MAHEC.
Register here for all the workshops in the 2024/2025 season, including the Teacher Training, at a discounted rate!
$ 3,300.00 if paid in full by September 12, 2024
To learn more about and/or register for individual Subtle® Yoga Series trainings in the series click here.
By registering for this conference, you are granting permission for your contact information to be shared with Subtle® Yoga staff.
Target Audience
Mental health professionals including substance abuse counselors, social workers, psychologists, counselors, marriage and family therapists, school counselors, and other professionals interested in this subject
Objectives
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Demonstrate safe and effective Subtle® Yoga techniques to help clients manage stress, recruit neuroplasticity, improve function, and reduce pain.
- Provide clients who suffer from chronic pain with yoga-based self-care skills.
- List key movement precautions for each yoga technique, especially important to apply when guiding chair based yoga practices.
Faculty
- Brett Sculthorp, LCSW, LCAS, CPS
- Kristine Kaoverii T. Weber, MA, c-IAYT, eRYT500
Brochure / Registration Form
