Vicky Fox: yoga for cancer teacher training

Thu Jan 28 2021 at 09:00 am to Sun Jan 31 2021 at 05:00 pm

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Vicky Fox: yoga for cancer teacher training
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This 40-hour training accredited by Yoga Alliance Professionals will give you the tools to create a safe and healing environment to teach yoga and relaxation to anyone diagnosed with cancer. This would also be applicable to working with anyone with long term health conditions.
Each day will begin with a practice suitable for anyone diagnosed with cancer so that you have the opportunity to experience four different classes and the adaptations that might be necessary. There will be opportunity after each practice to discuss the focus of each class. Each practice will include the use of mudras and pranayama.
The day on Zoom will start at 9am and will include a mixture of physical practice, lectures and working in smaller groups in break out rooms. There will be a break in the morning and the afternoon and 1 hour for lunch. The day will end at 5pm and we will finish with pranayama / meditation. There will also be opportunity to observe a yoga for cancer class.
The Yoga For Cancer training manual will be sent out within a week of the start date.
Certification will be based on attendance of all 4 days of the training, submitting 2 pieces of written work based on further readings and students will need to be able to video record a 40 minute teaching practicum and upload to a cloud based programme (Vimeo, youtube, google drive) to receive their certificate.
Topics will include:
Cultivating a safe space, how to hold that space, to listen and be compassionate in a yoga studio when working with fear, anxiety and possibly pain. To reassure people who may have found themselves in a world filled with tests and procedures. How you as a teacher can make the yoga studio a welcoming place that is accessible to a very wide range of experiences, abilities and quality of health.
Understanding cancer terminology. Diagnosis and grading of cancer. Treatment for breast cancer and implications of reconstructive surgery. Lymphoedema and cording and how to adapt the class to allow people to increase range of motion and build strength slowly and in a safe way. How your class can minimise muscle atrophy and keep blood and lymph circulating to help promote well being.
A-Z of Side effects and using your skills as a yoga teacher or therapist to adapt classes so that the class is accessible and inclusive to all.
Exploring the concept that we are not just a physical body. How we are multidimensional beings of mind, body and spirit that are connected. Our bodies are made up of different layers or koshas that are constantly changing. We will explore how to fully let go and how we need to relax each layer from the outer to the inner layers for us to allow healing to take place.
Chair classes how to modify to include those who may need to remain seated. Considering what your students may need most to feel empowered but also taking into account practices that support the changes occurring such as bone density, menopausal symptoms or secondary cancer.
The role of Yoga Nidra, guided relaxation and meditation. Use of language that is validating and supportive.
Course Content:
Day 1: Gentle practice with mudras the importance of building back strength slowly. Overview of cancer terminology and diagnosis. How to create a safe and healing environment. Understanding stress, fear and anxiety and the impact of living with cancer. Treatment for Cancer and how to start creating a toolbox of poses and adjustments to help with the side effects of treatment and diagnosis.
Day 2: Guest Speaker Louise Malone Specialist Oncology Physiotherapist at LOC will talk on how movement helps to maximise a person’s function before, during or after treatment. How it can help with, and even prevent side effects of systemic treatment such as muscle weakness, peripheral neuropathy and treatment related fatigue (TRF).
Stronger practice with mantras. Breast cancer treatment and reconstruction and its implications. Modifying the practice and the importance of building back range of motion and strength. How to create compassionate classes that start with ourselves. Building on our toolbox. Lymphoedema specific exercises.
Day 3: Chair practice. Koshas a multidimensional approach to healing. Hormones and menopause, building our toolbox to support the side effects. Osteoporosis and building bone strength. The big C’s are also Community and Connection. Group class planning. How we can start to put what we have learnt into practice. Working in small groups in breakout rooms. Secondary Cancer.
Day 4: Guest Speaker Liliana Branco Supportive Care/Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist will talk to us about how to support those in palliative care. The importance of learning to relax on a deeper level including Meditation, Yoga Nidra and guided relaxation. The business of teaching yoga for cancer.
January 28th
09.00 - 13.00 + 14.00 - 17.00
January 29th
09.00 - 13.00 + 14.00 - 17.00
January 30th
09.00 - 13.00 + 14.00 - 17.00
January 31st
09.00 - 13.00 + 14.00 - 17.00
Joining from outside the UK? Check your local time:
PDT: BST -9 hours
EST: BST -5 hours
CEST: BST +1 hour
SGT: BST +7 hours
AEST: BST +9 hours
Eligibility and pre requisites:
This training is open to all qualified or accredited teachers of yoga who have at least one year teaching experience or therapists with a committed yoga practice. Prior to attending the course all students need to read an account of having cancer from the reading list and questions provided and fill out a report on the book. There will also be post course work which must be completed that will include class plans, and reading "Making Friends with Death - A buddhist guide to encountering mortality" by Judith L Lief and completing an assignment on this book. Certification will be based on attendance of all 4 days of the training, submitting 2 pieces of written work and students will need to be able to video record a 40 minute teaching practicum and upload to a cloud based programme (Vimeo, youtube, google drive) to receive their certificate.
Accreditation:
40 hour training accredited by Yoga Alliance Professionals.
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