Rachael’s reading list – books for a reflective holiday season
A lot of people have been asking for books that influence me: here is a reading list about time and space, and what to do with them when you have...
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23
Dec
How many carers flew an airplane in 2015? Finding Yoga Annual Report.
A snapshot of our impact in 2015....
01
Dec
How a 5000 year old philosophy can help your 21st century health practice
Persistent pain is a tricky thing to treat for many health professionals. Pain is a very personal experience, the cause is often unknown and the symptoms non-specific. Yoga, both as...
14
Oct
Why we created our Yoga for Carers program
2.7 million Australians are unpaid carers, looking after a loved one with a disability or long term illness. Carers Australia launched a report that values this informal care at $60.3b....
06
Oct
Yoga for Mental Health Recovery
This podcast describes how we used yoga as an educative tool for mental health recovery in a project with Ruah, a social services provider in Perth, Western Australia....
What have yoga’s ethics got to do with mental health?
We're all familiar with the way yoga improves our mental health through relaxation and physical activity. Lesser known, but perhaps more powerful for helping us understand our place in the...
A guided relaxation for you: sitting in the pause
I hope you enjoy this 10-minuted guided relaxation. It was recorded at the end of a gentle yoga class so you should instantly feel the calm space of that class. The theme is...
30
Sep
Meet the practitioner: Tessa Heine
Occupational Therapist Tessa Heine was working in a Melbourne pain management clinic. She had introduced yoga into the multi-disciplinary program to help clients with relaxation and stress management and...
Finding Yoga has a volunteering space: yoga & research assistant
Finding Yoga is looking for an intern to join our pilot project with Thrive Support Group for Carers. The ideal candidate is a yoga teacher, or yoga teacher-in-training, with...
Volunteer with Finding Yoga
Finding Yoga is looking for a volunteer interested in yoga and rehabilitation to join our pilot project with Thrive Support Group for Carers. Thrive provide much-needed support for carers in the Gosnells...
National Pain Week Podcast 4: what could your role be?
In this episode, learn what social enterprise is and how it can help us come up with creative ways to help people the 1 in 5 Australians with pain....
Yoga in pain care: making it sustainable (National Pain Week 2015 podcast 3)
In the third of a series of podcasts during National Pain Week 2015, Rachael reflects on how to consider yoga as more than a set of techniques that can help...
21
Jul
How to start yoga when you have pain – National Pain Week Podcast 2
Learn why people with pain often have a bad first experience with yoga, and what to do about it....
20
Jul
National Pain Week Podcast 1: How yoga helps people with pain (and their health care practitioners)
Many of us think pain is something that happens when we’re old, or as the result of physical injury. But persistent pain affects people of all ages and for the...
15
Jul