Modules 1-7: Medical Therapeutic Yoga in America Series

Webinar Series Title:

Medical Therapeutic Yoga for the 21st Century: A Model for Improving Patient Care & Health Care in America

Presentation:

Modules 1-7

CEU's Awarded: 1 hour each webinar

Abstract

Modules 1-7 prepare the licensed medical professional to evaluate and manage the healthy and involved patient and client using the PYT Pentagon of Wellness Conceptual Model and the PYT method. 

Modules 1-7 are pre-requisites to the rest of the PYT CE Series/Program, and must be completed before taking any other PYT course.

Modules 1-7 are not introductory courses in yoga or rehabilitation.  Modules 1-7 lay the foundation for the Conceptual Therapeutic Evaluation and Management Model used in PYT, and prepare the student for advanced critical analysis in prevention of dysfunction and disease, as well as management of existing pathophysiology.  Written tests are given at the conclusion of each module.

After completion of Modules 1-7 you will come to Emerald Isle to study personally with Ginger during the first intensive on-site training, Module 8. 

Module 1:  A Paradigm Shift in Health Care Delivery

Clinical Objectives

1. Explain how the 7 point method of Professional Yoga Therapy and how it addresses all learning types.
2. Compare and contrast the 15 precepts of PYT to traditional yoga and yoga therapy.
3. Explain how the Pentagon of Wellness conceptual model could impact the practice of medicine and rehabilitation in the US.
4. Evaluate existing yoga and yoga therapy programs for content and safety.
5. Explain how the historic roots of yoga in America are inter-related with Professional Yoga Therapy.
6. Recognize and understand the PYT Code of Ethics, guidelines to practice, teaching, and meditation for medical therapeutic yoga.

Module 2:  A Conceptual Model for Holistic Evaluation, Application, and Management in Your Practice

Clinical Objectives

1. Identify the 5 obstructions to learning and transformation in a case study application.
2. Describe how the Pentagon of Wellness conceptual model can be used preventively and therapeutically to help patients/clients manage pain, low self-esteem, and flagging motivation.
3. Discuss the science of yoga and its rationale for efficacy.
4. Discuss how evidence-based research supports the inter-relationship of yoga with medical, psychological, biological, and physical science.
5. Identify a minimum of 5 interventions under each of the 5 points of the Pentagon model that can be used to effectively manage stress (a total of 15 interventions).
6. Apply the Psycho-emotional inventory for Pain Management within the context of the Pentagon of Wellness model.

Module 3:  Meditation, Reflection, and Consciousness...Practitioner Burnout: How to Prevent It, Facilitate Professional Growth, and Improve Patient Outcomes

Clinical Objectives

1. Explain how PYT makes medical therapeutic yoga useable by persons of any spiritual background.
2. Discuss the significant of chanting (sound of yoga) for psycho-emotional, spiritual, energetic, physical, and intellectual benefit.
3. Differentiate between yoga, yoga therapy, and medical therapeutic yoga.
4. Apply the 8 limbs of yoga to your professional vision to prevent practitioner burnout and improve stress management and your life balance skill set.
    

Module 4:  Foundations for Physiological & Neuromuscular Meditation & Awareness

Clinical Objectives

1. Identify the seven foundations of physiology used in PYT/MTY practice.
2. Demonstrate how the 5 branches of kinesthetic awareness affect change in the PYT conceptual model to improve rehabilitation outcomes.
3. Explain how the 5 branches of kinesthetic awareness can be used in designing medical and wellness based medical therapeutic yoga programs.

Module 5:  Respiration for Optimal Patient Outcomes

Clinical Objectives

1. Evaluate the physiology of respiration at rest.
2. Recognize pathophysiological states of breathing.
3. Apply the PYT conceptual model to affect change in pathophysiological states of respiration.
4. Explain the unique diaphragmatic breathing method used in PYT to improve safety and efficacy of yoga.

Module 6:  Applied Biomechanics in Asana/Postures for Stabilization, Motor Control, and Support

Clinical Objectives

1. Explain 7 pre-requisites for joint stabilization used in the physical and psycho-emotional points of the PYT conceptual model.
2. List the 4 components of lumbopelvic stabilization for applying medical therapeutic yoga in medical and wellness based programs.
3. Differentiate between internal and external support in yoga postures.
4. Apply research in lumbopelvic stabilization and neurophysiology to improve safety and efficacy in yoga posture practice.

Module 7:  Achieving Structural Balance:  Neurophysiology, Stability, and Joint Function in Practice

Clinical Objectives

1. Review the latest research to improve safety in yoga posture performance and improve balance and ultimately, the meditative state reached.
2. Explain the neurophysiology of safe medical therapeutic yoga practice as it relates to myofascial release and neural mobilization.
3. Verbalize the guidelines, precautions, and contraindications for performing soft tissue mobilization within the context of yoga postures.
4. Identify how myofascial restriction and neural mobilization can be addressed through the practice and sequencing of yoga postures.
5. Understand joint open and closed packed positions as they relate to both protection and progression in medical therapeutic yoga prescription.
6. Describe the factors affecting gait related (balance) changes across the lifespan.

Presenter:
Ginger Garner, MPT, ATC
 
Clinical Categories:

• Injury/Illness Prevention and Wellness
• Clinical Evaluation and Diagnosis
• Treatment and Rehabilitation
• Organizational and Professional Health and Well‐being

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