Show Notes
Lisa Greenbaum is a Certified Yoga Therapist and E-RYT 500 Yoga Teacher and Educator. She is the founder of Lisa Greenbaum Yoga + Wellness, a Yoga Education School with a trauma-informed lens. Recognizing that the chronic physical pain we experience is intensified through the chronic stress, poor sleep and mental health challenges that go along with the pain, Lisa’s approach is centred on creating balance for the nervous system that includes meditation, breath work and movement to quiet the fight/flight response and build ease within the body and mind. In this episode, we talked about what yoga is, how yoga can be adapted for people experiencing pain, and how physiotherapists can work with yoga therapists. There is also a breathing meditation demonstration at the end for you to experience.
Resources: Training for Yin+Restore practice, pain management including Chair Yoga https://lisagreenbaum.com/yoga-for-wellness/ Virtual classes that I teach https://lisagreenbaum.com/weekly-online-yoga-classes/ Study on Yoga and Pain: A Mind/Body complex system https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9996306/ Study - Needle electromyographic evaluation of trigger point response to a psychological stressor https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8008795/ Yoga Therapist Search https://www.iayt.org/search/search.asp?csy=209092 IAYT also lists a number of studies on Yoga Therapy and Chronic Pain: https://www.iayt.org/page/YTT_IJYT_Pain
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