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The Role of Yoga for Chronic Pain
July 27 @ 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM AEST
About the Event
Yoga Australia have organised this event in line with National Pain Week 2023, helping to raise awareness of the benefits of yoga for pain relief.
Chronic Lower back pain and other unresolved neuromuscular skeletal issues affect 600 million people worldwide!
Conventional Physical Therapy and medical treatments include addictive drugs, surgeries and years of costly pain management which do not necessarily address the underlying causes of chronic pain.
Given the physical and psychological aspects associated with Chronic neuromuscular skeletal pain, it follows that any successful treatment would be best if it addresses both the mind and body, which is what makes yoga such an effective option. However, Yoga has not yet received the same level of respect and recognition from the scientific community as other alternative medicines. That is beginning to change.
Healthcare professionals and researchers, like myself, are finding consensus around why yoga is such a powerful tool. Not only in preventing and treating chronic neuromuscular skeletal pain but also in regulating the underlying stress response and negative emotional states at the root of the issue.
“[Chronic Back pain ] is one of the most pervasive, misunderstood and under-serviced health issues in the world today” Professor Harald Breivik,International Association for the Study of Pain.
Yoga has an important role to play. During this event, we will explore Chronic NMS pain as a balancing act between all of our human dimensions:
- The Mind-Body-Spirit trilogy and how chronic pain is the result of unconscious postural and psychological habits.
- The mechanisms of acute and chronic stress in preventing Healing.
- Postural Alignment in Asanas and the Use of Props to treat biomechanical dysfunctions.
- Breathing, the foundation for healing.
- The Importance of Presence and Somatic Awareness in Rehabilitation.
What do the attendees need to bring?
Pen, paper, any questions to have answered.
About the Presenter:
Sylviane has been described as “The Woman who can take the thorn out of the lion’s paw”!
She has dedicated 30 years to Teaching Iyengar-style Yoga and trained many to become Teachers. She is also a highly respected Therapist and owned a clinic specialised in chronic neuromuscular-skeletal pain and sensorimotor rehabilitation. Sylviane is also a certified clinical hypnotherapy and Life coach.
Her journey to becoming the expert that she is today took a new turn when she suffered severe spinal injuries and nerve damage that leaves her body partially paralysed. Healing was a marathon of the mind and body, and today she is sharing her experience to benefit all.
Venue & Booking:
This session will be held via zoom online and will also be recorded for future access.
Bookings can be made via this website. You will receive a confirmation email and zoom link and passcode upon registration. Online events are FREE for active members.
Learn More & Connect with Sylviane here:
IG: [email protected]
FB: Sylviane James (Gourdon) [email protected]
