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Working with Yoga Injuries

If you want to help your students, you need a process that works on any injury. Working with pain and injuries can be intimidating, so this workshop gives you one, step by step: observe, assess, test and modify. Teachers can support students in pain; practitioners can keep their practice evolving.

6 downloadable videos, a yoga injuries PDF guide and lifetime access. Yoga Alliance CE hours: 2.

Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP)

In this workshop you learn…

✓the difference between injury and pain
✓how to observe and investigate
✓how to test and modify
✓how to apply to five common areas

Are you a yoga practitioner?

Understanding why and how injuries can happen can help you prevent injury. Our workshop will also teach you how to work with injuries when they do happen so you can keep your practice evolving.

Are you a yoga teacher?

Our workshop will give you the tools to support your students when they're experiencing pain or injury. Gain a deeper understanding of the process of working with injuries so you can help students practice safely.

Working with Yoga Injuries

$75 — lifetime access.

6 videos to stream or download, plus a PDF · 115 minutes · yours to keep

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Sample video
Introduction
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Knee Pain
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Sit-Bone Pain
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Low Back Pain
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Shoulder Pain
Sample video
Wrist Pain
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Here's what's covered:

  • Understand the common reasons that pain and injury occur.
  • Learn a process to think through how to work intelligently with pain and injury.
  • Explore the 5 most common pain areas that show up in yoga practice while applying this process: knees, hamstrings, low back, shoulders, and wrists.
  • Learn to use knowledge of anatomy to inform the patterns of movement you observe.
  • Understand the process of identifying appropriate modifications for a posture in any situation.
1Introduction
·A context for pain and injury
·Defining pain and injury
·Causative factors
·Understanding types of pain
·How to start investigating
2Knee Pain
·3 types of knee pain
·What to observe
·What questions to ask
·How to modify
·How to follow up with the student
3Sit-Bone Pain
·Sit-bone, hamstrings, and adductors
·Observations that distinguish the problem
·Tests you can do to help
·Modifications and why they may help
4Low Back Pain
·Where low back pain can come from
·The best questions to ask
·Observe up dog, backbends, forward bends
·How to modify appropriately
5Shoulder Pain
·What observations matter
·Apply observations to 3 simple postures
·A closer look at chaturanga
·How to modify based on what you learn
6Wrist Pain
·The connection between shoulders and wrist
·Apply observations to 3 simple postures
·Chaturanga, up dog, and down dog
·Appropriate modifications
David Keil, yoga anatomy teacher
Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500 (Registered Experienced Yoga Teacher)Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP)
  • Author of Functional Anatomy of Yoga
  • M.S. Exercise Physiology
  • Licensed massage and neuromuscular therapist
  • E-RYT 500
  • YACEP

Your instructor: David Keil

Working with pain and injuries can be intimidating. Maybe you feel like you don't even know where to start! That's why I created this workshop.

You don't need to know everything about anatomy or memorize every modification for every pose to get started. In this yoga injuries workshop, you'll learn how to ask the right questions to help steer the process of investigation. You'll learn how to ask questions that will inform your suggestions of how and when to modify postures for pain or injury. Our workshop will help you develop the skills to design the right modification for a pose for each individual student.

You won't find a one-size-fits-all approach in this workshop! Learn a method for working with each unique student and situation.

David Keil has taught anatomy in yoga teacher trainings since 1998.

More to the point: he practices. The anatomy in his courses lives on the mat, not in a lab.

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Questions

How long do I have access?

For life when you buy it outright: it stays in your library. Through the membership, for as long as your membership (monthly or yearly) stays active.

Do I need the book?

No — the workshops stand alone. (The Comprehensive Course is the one that uses Functional Anatomy of Yoga.)

CE hours?

Yes — eligible for Yoga Alliance continuing education hours. David is a YACEP.

Is there a guarantee?

Yes — a 30-day, no-questions-asked guarantee. Just email us. If you’re not happy for any reason, let us know and we’ll give you your money back.

When do I get access?

Immediately. You choose your password at checkout and you're straight into My library, where everything you own lives. Next time, log in at my.yoganatomy.com.

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