Who Would Take This Class and Why

• those who practice yoga and would like to use yoga fundamentals for rehabilitation and/or postural refinement or work more deeply with the ‘process’ of healing
• those who do not practice yoga and would like to understand yoga based injuries and be able to make sound modifications of postures for injured clients
• those who would like to learn the depths of structural yoga in thorough technical usable terms
• those who would like to create yoga based sequences for core strength, spine, shoulder , hip, knee or ankle stability or movement fluidity
• those whose background in healing arts, sports or dance therapy who would like to incorporate yoga into their therapeutic systems
  

Objectives: Seeing Bodies for Vulnerabilities as they move?

• For each posture we will discern counterposes, high-risk areas, common errors, and remedies.
• For each posture, we will learn specific muscle and joint requirements, i.e. specifically, where strength and flexibility are most needed and why
• We will discuss modifications for beginners, geriatrics, wheelchair patients, various spine pains and other common injuries, and how these modifications might process and change over the course of time.
• We will create ways to emphasize various movement patterns; like hip internal rotation as an example, so that it is comfortable to build a safe yoga sequence around one of these, or around a specific injury, for healing.

Treatment Guidelines for the Clinical use of Yoga

• Seeing the body as a whole; seeing joint movements as a function of movement patterns instead of isolated muscles, within the frames of various yoga postures.
• Differences between using yoga for acute and for chronic pain

Speaker
Sherry Brourman, PT is a Los Angeles based private practice physical therapist with thirty years experience. She is the author of Walk Yourself Well, published in five countries. She has spoken at NASA, The American Back Society, The Institute for Integrative Medicine, The Los Angeles Health Festival and she teaches nationally. She was the Physical Therapy Crew Manager for the Avon 3-Day Walk for Breast Cancer for two years, contributing some fifty walking clinics for thousands of walkers. Sherry presently also teaches Yoga and Yoga Teacher Trainings at Exhale/ Sacred Movement Yoga Studio in Santa Monica, California as well as nationally.

CEUs/PDUs/Contact Hours
A certificate of attendance will be presented to each participant for 7.0 contact hours. The California Education Connection is recognized by the NATA Board of Certification to provide continuing education for certified athletic trainers. The NATABOC approved provider number is P2959. This course will also assist in completing the required continuing education for the Yoga Alliance. The NSCA Certification Commission Executive Council approved 0.7 CEUs for CSCS and NSCA-CPT certificants attending this event. 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.

Registration Deadline
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.

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

How Do We Sign-Up and Qualify for the Free 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.

Refund & Cancellation Policies
The California Education Connection reserves the right to cancel or reschedule this seminar due to an insufficient number of registrants or other unforeseen circumstances. Under these circumstances, seminar fees will be returned in full to the registrant in the same method as the payment was received. Please note that the California Education Connection is not responsible for hotel, airline or other expenses incurred.

All cancellations must be submitted in writing. For cancellations received 14 days or more before the seminar date, the seminar fee will be returned less a $25.00 administrative fee. If, after registering, you decide you cannot attend the seminar, but want to transfer your spot to another person, there will be a $25.00 administrative fee.

Within 14 days of the seminar, no refunds will be made, although the seminar fee (less a $25.00 administration fee) is transferable to another person for the same seminar date.

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