27 Sep Make sure you subscribe to Yoga for Pain Care Australia
You may have noticed there haven't been many blog posts from us recently! This is because there was such an interest in our Yoga for Pain work that we had...
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04 May Are you getting the full benefits of mindfulness?
A recent study found we may be over-reporting positive effects of mindfulness. Reporting bias doesn’t instantly make mindfulness bad, but let’s look at what we might be missing if...
29 Mar Yoga for Pain with Rachael
Self-led and face-to-face Yoga for Pain programs to help you reduce stress, move better, and do the things you love....
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...
04 Oct 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...
23 Jul 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....
22 Jul 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 Yoga for Health Practitioners – professional development during National Pain Week
Yoga for Health Practitioners is a professional development session offered by Finding Yoga during National Pain Week. Allied health, GPs and other health providers can experience a gentle yoga practice and learn how yoga can be part of a multi-disciplinary approach to pain management.
15 May What surprises yoga teachers and health practitioners about Yoga for Pain
Many people - people with pain, yoga teachers and health practitioners - think that Yoga for Pain is about modifying postures to suit physical injuries. While the training does help with making better movement choices, this is in fact just one part of a range of skills we offer to help those with pain.
22 Apr What we learnt at the very first Yoga for Pain Practitioner Training
We have just run the very first Yoga for Pain Practitioner Training in Melbourne, Australia. This is what we learnt. ...
31 Mar Yoga and Fibromyalgia – Marla’s story
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Fibromyalgia is now recognised as a valid medical diagnosis but it is important to first investigate anything else that could be causing your symptoms. It is also critical not...
19 Mar Yoga and fibromyalgia – Ellen’s story
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Ellen was diagnosed with fibromyalgia 20 years ago. She could see that the constant background pain, tension and fatigue affected much of her life, including relationships, parenting and work....