Participants who register for this course have the option to attend the course live and/or watch the recorded sessions later. The recording will be available to all registrants for a 2-week period after the course/each session. This allows participants who may not be able to attend the live sessions to still benefit from the course content.

To facilitate attendance tracking, please indicate on your registration form if you won't be attending live.

Course Description:

A growing number of health professionals are recommending yoga to their patients with pelvic pain particularly since we have compelling research to support yoga as a potentially safe and effective approach for improving function, pain and quality of life for people with chronic pain.

Additionally, a growing number of people in pain are looking to yoga for solutions, but often do not find a safe or appropriate fit to adapt to their needs.

As a pelvic health professional, you are in a strategic position to learn more about how to effectively integrate yoga principles and practices into your rehab practice to enhance the whole person-centered biopsychosocial-spiritual approach that is in line with current best practices in pelvic pain care.

Join Shelly Prosko, physiotherapist and yoga therapist, for this online course for rehab professionals who work with people living with chronic or persistent pelvic pain.

We will explore a variety of yoga practices and principles and learn how they align with the current scientific theories and understandings surrounding pain and how they can be adapted to provide safe and effective ways for people with pelvic pain move with more ease, reduce and manage their pain, and progress towards a thriving quality of life.

We will use an evidence-informed whole-person approach to pain management that supports self-efficacy and empowerment within the person in pain and promotes longevity of compassionate caregiving within the professional.

This 2-part online course includes a combination of lecture, discussion and experiential components. 

Enjoy the opportunity for some well deserved self-care as you experience practices that can be immediately used with your patients in the clinic setting such as:

• movement exploration and yoga postures
• awareness practices
• breathing techniques and mindfulness meditative practices
• language and cueing to promote safety and confidence
• layering practices and exploring ways to provide novel input

….to help promote pelvic floor relaxation, optimal excursion, and systems-wide regulation, therefore modulating the pain experience.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the 8 limbs of Raja yoga with an introductory understanding of how they can be adapted as part of evidence-informed pelvic pain care within therapists’ professional scope of practice.
• Compare and contrast the biopsychosocial-spiritual and yoga’s pancha maya kosha models of health, understand their use and limitations, and describe how they relate to evidence-informed pain care.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the biopsychosocial-spiritual changes that can result within a person when pain persists.
• Apply clinical reasoning to integration of yoga practices and principles within the context of pelvic pain care.
• Demonstrate/participate in yoga practices of awareness, breathing, mindfulness meditative techniques and mindful movement guided by yoga principles and pain science within the context of pelvic pain care.
• Apply at least three accessible and suitable yoga practices that can be immediately used in the clinical setting to help modulate pelvic pain and give the person in pain a sense of self-efficacy and empowerment in their pain care.

An abundance of resources are included.

Audience: Pelvic health rehabilitation and wellness professionals including PT/OT and other rehab professionals, movement/fitness professionals, yoga professionals, or any health practitioner who works with people with pelvic pain and who have an interest in integrating yoga principles and practices into pelvic pain care for a more mind-body-spirit or whole person empowered approach.

Prerequisites: None

Registration Form

Yoga for Pelvic Pain October 2024

Schedule

Date/Time: October 8 & 15, 2024, from 5:00pm-9:00pm ET (Toronto). Please convert to your local time zone.

Delivery Format

Live attendance is not mandatory for this online course. Enjoy a 2-week window to access and review the course recording, which is sent out on the next business day. We understand that life can be busy, which is why we offer you the freedom to access the course recording(s) during the time-limited viewing period.

Instructor

Shelly Prosko, PT, C-IAYT

Shelly is a physiotherapist, yoga therapist, educator, author and pioneer of PhysioYoga with over 20 years of experience integrating yoga into physiotherapy within a variety of specialty areas including helping people with chronic/persistent pain, pelvic health issues and professional burnout. She guest lectures at numerous yoga therapy and physical therapy schools, presents at yoga and medical conferences globally, contributes to academic research and writing, provides mentorship to professionals, and offers onsite and online courses and resources for yoga and healthcare professionals. She considers herself a lifelong student and emphasizes the immense value gained from clinical experience and learning from the patients she serves, the professionals she teaches, and the colleagues with which she collaborates. Shelly has written book chapters in yoga therapy and integrative rehabilitation textbooks and is the co-editor/author of the textbook Yoga and Science in Pain Care: Treating the Person in Pain. She maintains a clinical practice in Sylvan Lake, Canada and believes compassion is the foundation of pain care, healthcare and overall well-being. Please visit www.physioyoga.ca to learn more.