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Digital Seminar

Simple Yoga Techniques as Clinical Interventions for Anxiety and Trauma


Faculty:
Mary NurrieStearns, MSW, LCSW, ACEP–EFT, C–C–IAYT, E–RYT 500
Duration:
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Copyright:
Sep 28, 2011
Product Code:
POS044020
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

Science indicates that yoga is an integrative clinical tool that can help heal depression and anxiety. Sensible and compassionate, this practice empowers clients, enhances the professional relationships and helps heals client and clinician alike. Join Mary NurrieStearns, clinical social worker, yoga expert and author, for this highly informational and experiential video. You will learn the skills to integrate these powerful yoga techniques with your clinical practice. Help improve your client outcomes - and feel renewed as a clinician as well!

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- PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This online program is worth 1.5 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.

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Mary NurrieStearns, MSW, LCSW, ACEP–EFT, C–C–IAYT, E–RYT 500, teaches seminars and retreats to teach clinicians how to take mindfulness skills, brain based protocols for treating shame and office-based yoga back to their clients. These evidence based clinical interventions move therapy forward by improving emotional regulation, restoring healthy nervous system functioning and cultivating healthier thought patterns. Both mindfulness and yoga practices have brought healing and calm to Mary’s clients and students.

Mary provides participants with the latest research results and pulls together the work of experts in the mental health field who are proponents of both practices (i.e. Bessel van der Kolk, Jon Kabat-Zinn). She draws on 37 years as a mental health professional counselor and 27 years of meditation and yoga practice. She is a certified yoga therapist, seasoned yoga teacher and ordained member of Thich Naht Hahn’s Order of Interbeing. Mary is the author of Healing Anxiety, Depression and Unworthiness: 78 Brain-Changing Mindfulness & Yoga Practices (PESI, 2018), Yoga for Anxiety with Rick NurrieStearns (New Harbinger, 2010), Yoga for Emotional Trauma with Rick NurrieStearns (New Harbinger, 2013), Yoga Mind – Peaceful Mind with Rick NurrieStearns (New Harbinger, 2015), and Daily Meditations for Healing and Happiness: 52 Card Deck (PESI, 2016). Mary is the co-editor of Soulful Living (Hci, 1999) and former editor of Personal Transformation magazine. She has produced DVDs on yoga for emotional trauma and depression. Mary teaches across the United States.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Mary NurrieStearns maintains a private practice. She receives compensation as a speaker, yoga teacher, and published author. Ms. NurrieStearns receives a speaking honorarium, book royalties, and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Mary NurrieStearns has no relevant non-financial relationships.


Objectives

  1. 1. Incorporate yoga techniques as clinical interventions for anxiety and trauma.

    2. Teach clients skills to improve emotional regulation

Outline

  • Yoga as an Evidenced-Based Clinical Intervention: A holistic, mind/body approach
    • The physiology of anxiety and trauma and the healing process
    • Yoga and the anxious body
    • Yoga and the traumatized mind
    • Yoga and trauma in the body
  • Reduce Anxiety and Overwhelm with Breathing Interventions
    • Quickly reduced heighted anxiety
    • "Come to your rescue" breathing intervention
    • Interventions to facilitate diaphragmatic breathing
    • Calm the nervous system with "gentle exhalation lengthening"
  • Reduce Panic and Dissociation with a Simple Body Scan
    • Create internal safety
    • Shift attention from distressing thoughts
    • Teach and demonstrate body scan
  • Complex Trauma and Mantra
    • Reverse feelings of unworthiness
    • Self love and compassion mantra
    • Client developed mantra
    • Embedding mantra into the body with massage
    • Mentally imbed and reinforce mantra
  • Soothing with Comfort Poses
    • Reverse the flight/fight/freeze response of trauma
    • Practice variations of comforting body as self compassion
  • Simple Yoga Practice for Anxiety
    • Cultivate awareness
    • Safety
    • Practice numerous poses

Target Audience

Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Therapists, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Other Mental Health Professionals

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