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Becoming Pain Care Aware 

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Completing your 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training with SOYA is a journey in wisdom keeping. Part of the wisdom that you will gain and ultimately pay forward to others, is becoming Pain Care Aware. 

Welcome to the PCA journey. Discovering pain is more complex -  and more relatable, than you might currently believe. 

 

Why This Course is For You

 

If you’ve ever experienced…

  • fear of injuring a student
  • self-doubt when guiding asana if someone says they have pain
  • not knowing how to increase evidence of safety in your student/client
  • being unsure of what to do after providing pain education
  • the cognitive and heart felt mismatch between yoga teachings and common western views of pain
  • not knowing how to provide bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach to teaching
  • a feeling like you’ve been asked to turn yoga into physical therapy
  • a feeling that you’ve been asked to turn yoga into  Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

Then you’re ready to learn more about pain and pain care.

The goods news is that Pain Care Aware Foundations will provide you with knowledge and skills to overcome these barriers and effectively integrate yoga and pain science into your class cueing language and teaching approach.

Being Pain Care Aware will guide you in teaching people who are experiencing pain – whether the pain is acute or persistent, physical, emotional or spiritual, - and learn to live with greater self awareness, inner peace and physical ease.

 ** Set up your enrolment for the SOYA-PCA Foundations Course by clicking on the link in the green box above 👆

PCA Foundations Course is a 30 hour, self-paced study, online program. Your PCA Certificate of Completion is required for SOYA 200 Hour YTT Certification.

PCA course overview below. 👇

Pain Care Aware Foundations Course 2.0

  1. Welcome to Pain Care Aware

    5 lessons
    1. Pain Care Aware Foundations Course, Level 1
    2. Shantiphat Mantra
    3. Ganesha Mantra for New Beginnings
    4. The Pain Care Aware Model
    5. Your First Reflection Journal Prompt

  2. Course Introduction

    6 lessons
    1. Preparing for The Pain Care Aware Foundations Course
    2. Ritual for Creating Auspicious Learning and Dedicating a Reflection Journal
    3. Reflection Journal Prompt
    4. Why Pain Care Aware
    5. Understand Pain, Live Well Again
    6. Introduction Quiz

  3. Understanding Pain

    4 lessons
    1. Understanding Pain Physiology
    2. Key Points to Know and Remember About Pain
    3. Main Lessons
    4. Understanding Pain Quiz

  4. Module 1 - Pain and Yoga

    14 lesson
    1. Pain Care Aware™: Pain From Different Perspectives

    1. Key Content

      1. Pain and Yoga Key Content
      2. Interoception: The Sense of the Internal State of the Body
      3. The Buffer Zone & The Edge

    2. Video Discussion

      1. Yoga and Pain Part 1
      2. Yoga and Pain Part 2

    3. Practices and Techniques

      1. Breath Awareness Long
      2. Awareness Body Scan
      3. Full Body Scan
      4. Awareness Pain Nonpain Kosha Version
      5. Dividing Attention Breath Body
      6. Breath Awareness Prosko

    4. Self Reflection Review and Quiz

      1. Reflection Journal Prompt
      2. Pain and Yoga Quiz

  5. Module 2 - Pain Theories

    11 lesson
    1. Pain Care Aware™: Pain Theories, Awareness, and Regulation

    1. Key Content

      1. Pain Theories Key Content

    2. Video Discussion

      1. Pain Theories Part 1
      2. Pain Theories Part 2

    3. Practices and Techniques

      1. Awareness Breath & Body
      2. Longer Smoother Softer Breath Practice
      3. Dirgha Pran Long
      4. Dirgha Pran Short
      5. Breath Regulation Prosko

    4. Self Reflection Review and Quiz

      1. Reflection Journal Prompt
      2. Pain Theories Quiz

  6. Module 3 - Discernment and Movement Guidelines

    13 lessons
    1. PCA Movement Guidelines Video
    2. Fostering Fearlessness and Self-Compassion in Yoga Classes
    3. Using the PCA Movement Guidelines

    1. Key Content

      1. Discernment: What, Why, and How Within Pain Care Aware™

    2. Video Discussion

      1. Discernment & Movement

    3. Practices and Techniques

      1. Gentle Ujjayi Breath
      2. Regulation Breath & Body Tension
      3. Self Regulation Thoughts Feelings
      4. Fostering Fearlessness
      5. Fostering Fearlessness with Courage
      6. Fostering Fearlessness Spirit Within

    4. Self Reflection Review and Quiz

      1. Reflection Journal Prompt
      2. Discernment and Movement Quiz

  7. Module 4 - Pain Care Aware Principles and Language

    14 lesson
    1. Cultivating Courage and Self-Compassion in Yoga Teachers

    1. Key Content

      1. Explicit Messages and Languages
      2. Integrating Pain Care Language & PCA Class Sequence Format
      3. What is Nocebic Language?

    2. Video Discussion

      1. Principals & Language
      2. Shelly Prosko: Compassion and Pain Care Aware

    3. Practices and Techniques

      1. Shelly ~ Full Practice ~ Self Compassion Theme
      2. Shelly ~ Cultivating Courage Through Self Compassion ~ Meditation
      3. Julie ~ A Sense of Santosha ~ Guided Meditation
      4. Ritual for Sacred Space
      5. Resurrection Breath
      6. Lisa Pearson ~ Full Class ~ Using PCA Language

    4. Self Reflection Review and Quiz

      1. Reflection Journal Prompt
      2. Pain Care Aware Principles and Language Quiz

  8. Summary, Next Steps and Certificate

    2 lessons
    1. Three Key Points to Remember About Pain
    2. Congratulations on Completing Pain Care Aware™ Foundations Course!