Using Yoga Therapeutically

Yoga is a 5000 year old self-awareness technology, which uses mechanically brilliant exercises (postures), to balance and heal the body, to calm the nervous system and to quiet the mind. The process of learning includes alignment, strength and flexibility as some of the integral structural components. These, along with focused mind body connections and breath work, are the mainstays of all yoga styles.

In this workshop, we will literally and comprehensively move through all of the basic yoga postures to understand and experience their mechanics and their relationships to normal and stable movement patterns. We will also discuss their capacities for healing specific injuries, and the healing power of the yoga process.

Understanding core stability as a frame of reference for Tadasana (most basic posture)breathing and walking.

11:00 - 11:30am Introduction to Yin Yoga, long slow ligamentous stretches that last

11:30 - 12:00pm Lab- Students create and practice Yin type stretches with each other

Sherry Brourman, PT, E-RYT 500,has been a practicing Physical Therapist for thirty-five years and a yoga teacher, teacher trainer and yoga therapist, for twelve years. Her groundbreaking book Walk Yourself Well, published in 1998, drew international acclaim, thrives today, and is the subject of a formal university level study. Sherry is also the Fitness and Walking shoe advisor for Skechers, USA.

A member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists and recognized by Yoga Alliance at the E-RYT 500 level, Ms. Brourman is the director of her own clinic where Physical Therapy, Gait Therapy and Yoga Therapy are all used as individual modalities or in confluence. Sherry has two Mentorship programs underway, one for Gait Therapy practitioners and one for Yoga Therapists. She teaches internationally, teaches structural anatomy at the Loyola Marymount Yoga Therapy Certification program, as well as for several Yoga teacher trainings, and teaches workshops and seminars incessantly.

Sherry has recently been interviewed and written about in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Natural Health Magazine, Spa Magazine, and Samata International’s new magazine. She has spoken at NASA, The American back Society meeting, The Institute for Integrative medicine, The Los Angeles Health Festival, And SYTAR, The Symposium for Yoga Therapy and Research.

A certificate of attendance will be presented to each participant for 7.0 contact hours. The Physical Therapy Board of California recognizes California Education Connection, LLC as an Approval Agency to Approve Providers of Continuing Competency Courses in California. This course is eligible for 0.7 CEUs for PTs and PTAs. CEC is recognized by the Board of Certification to provide continuing education for CERTIFIED ATHLETIC TRAINERS. Our BOC approved provider number is P2959. This course will also assist in completing the required continuing education for the Yoga Alliance. California Education Connection is an AOTA Approved Provider of continuing education. This course is eligible for 0.7 CEUs from the AOTA. The AOTA does not endorse specific course content, products, or clinical procedures. This course will also count toward the PDU requirement for OTRs / COTAs in the State of California. The NSCA Certification Commission Executive Council approved 0.8 CEUs for CSCS and NSCA-CPT certificants attending this event. The National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) has approved this course for 0.7 CEUs (#1463).

The registration deadline for all courses is three weeks prior to the start of the course. All registrations must be postmarked or received three weeks prior to the course date, if received after the registration deadline, a $25.00 Late Fee will be applied to the registration fee.

For every 5 people that sign up for the same seminar, we will give that group one complimentary spot.

In order to qualify for this discount, we must receive all six completed registration forms with the appropriate payment for the five spots. If you want to mail in the completed forms, you must mail all six forms in the same envelope. If you want to fax in the forms, you must fax all six forms at the same time.

Please note that there will be no exceptions granted. We must receive everything at once in order to process these registration forms under the group discount policy.

California Education Connection reserves the right to cancel this seminar due to an insufficient number of registrants. Under these circumstances, a full refund in the form of a check will be addressed and mailed to the registered participant. Please note that California Education Connection is not responsible for any hotel, airline or other expenses incurred.

All cancellations by registered participant must be dated and submitted in writing. For cancellations received 14 days or more before the seminar date, the registration fee will be returned less a $50.00 administrative fee. A refund in the form of a check will be mailed to the registered participant.

Within 14 days of the seminar, no refunds will be made. California Education Connection reserves the right to change a course date, location or instructor. If the seminar is either interrupted or canceled by an act of nature, war, or any issue beyond the control of California Education Connection, no refund will be issued. Please note that California Education Connection is not responsible for any hotel, airline or other expenses incurred.