Overcome Pain with Gentle Yoga

January 30-February 1, 2015

(daily schedule - 9-12 & 1-4)

Instructor: Neil Pearson, PT, MSc, BA, BPHE, RYT500, CYT

Immerse yourself in three days of safe effective practices to decrease your pain and help you live well again. Explore modern science-based views on chronic pain, while empowering yourself with practical tools to improve ease of movement. Heal yourself through yoga techniques designed to wind down your nervous system and promote positive, lasting changes in your body. No yoga experience needed.

Healthcare providers, yoga teachers and yoga therapists will offer practitioners the opportunity to experience pain care practices on a personal level, and the opportunity to spend time listening to the experiences of people with persistent pain as they learn, practice and discuss pain self management technique. Equally valuable, practitioners will expand their understanding of the lived experience of pain, and the difficult task of learning to move well again in the face of ongoing pain.

Completion of this workshop is one of the pre-requisites toward completion of the Pain Care Yoga Certifications.

Intended Participants:

People with chronic pain, especially those interested in connecting Western understanding of pain with body-mind-spirit practices of yoga. Cost: $180

Yoga teachers, yoga therapists, and healthcare professionals wishing to enhance their work with people in pain and to complete the Pain Care Yoga certificate training. Cost: $460

Course fee includes snacks, coffee, tea, and catered lunch for all 3 days.

People in pain:

Healthcare Professionals, Yoga Teachers and Yoga Therapists:

Terms and Conditions of Attendance

About Neil Pearson

Neil is founder and director of Neil Pearson Physiotherapist Corporation, which operates as life is now. He works clinically in Penticton, BC, Canada providing the knowledge and tools for effective pain self management throughout physiotherapy and therapeutic yoga.

Overcome Pain with Gentle Yoga