Yoga Injuries: How to Manage and Heal Live Webinar
Yoga Injuries - How to Manage and Heal Panel Discussion
Sunday, February 18th, 2024 | Zoom Webinar
US East Coast: 7 am | UK: noon | Europe: 1.00 pm | Thailand: 7 pm
The discussion is scheduled to last 2 hours and will be recorded. If you can't attend live, register for the event to receive an email with the link within 24 hours of it finishing (check your spam/junk folder as they sometimes end up in there)
We practice yoga because of the many benefits. Asana practice has increased exponentially in popularity in recent years and with the increased emphasis on dynamic styles, we are witnessing an increase in yoga-related injuries. Any body movement can put us at risk of injury and yoga, with its unique demands renders the body susceptible. Dynamic yoga as a physical practice is still in its infancy in terms of evolution.
In this webinar, we will discuss how we might skillfully relate to this discipline within our current understanding of anatomy, whilst comparing this to its energetic roots. We will explore more practical aspects, such as what to do if an injury is sustained, ideas regarding healing, and, finally, the place and usage of medical intervention.
The panellists have been chosen according to their particular expertise, including movement specialists as well as practitioners who have been through surgery and recovery from yoga-related injuries.
Donations are greatly appreciated and anything beyond the event costs will benefit our charity partners.
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Celest Pereira - London
https://www.celestpereira.com/ | @celestpereiraphysio
Celest is a geek who loves anatomy, neuroscience, and biomechanics. She acquired her BSc (Hons) in Physiotherapy in 2009, despite dropping out of school at 16. She found learning at school really tough, however now credits her ability to make complex concepts easy to grasp, down to her learning struggles.
She runs regular education-based workshops where she takes current scientific research, and anecdotal evidence from senior healthcare providers and applies them to movement disciplines. She’s currently specialising in functional neurology, learning how it can be applied to improve pain, health, and performance. Celest offers a space for all things neurology, yoga & anatomy
David Keil - Miami
https://www.yoganatomy.com/ | @dkeil108
David Keil is an experienced yoga teacher and long-time practitioner. The creator of the YogAnatomy DVD series, he was introduced to yoga in 1989 by his Tai Chi Chuan instructor and later studied yoga in Mysore, India, with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and his grandson R. Sharath. He was an instructor of kinesiology at Miami’s Educating Hands School of Massage from 1999 to 2003, and since 2000 he has been presenting yoga anatomy workshops. He lives in Miami, Florida.
Day Christensen - Florida
https://day1yoga.com/ | @day1yoga
Day Christensen took up the practice of yoga in 2004 and quickly became drawn to the Mysore-style practice of Ashtanga yoga. She began to schedule around her yoga practice, and her life of late nights and unhealthy habits did a 180. After taking trips to Mysore, on her third trip to India, Day was given the blessing to teach as an Authorized Level 2 teacher.
Shortly afterwards she was suffering from persistent back pain, and through years of learning to heal and recover, she created the Day1Yoga Method, a system with groups of asanas given according to each student’s current and developing postural needs. A tailored and customizable practice, without asana hierarchy, no delineation between “advanced” and “beginner” students, people with issues, all there for the healing and strengthening modality that yoga should be.
Ellen Johannesen - Oslo
www.ashtanganepal.com | www.onyoga.no | @ashtanganepal
Ellen has been a yoga teacher for more than 20 years after taking up yoga during her career as a professional dancer. She discovered Ashtanga yoga during a tour to New York in 1994 and has practiced it ever since. She is a KPJAYI-authorized level 2 Ashtanga yoga teacher and also holds a teacher training certificate from John Scott.
In 2002 she co-founded Ashtanga Yoga Oslo, the first Ashtanga studio in Norway, where she ran the Mysore program. A growing interest in Buddhism brought her first to Bylakuppe, South India, where she spent about three years living in a Tibetan Monastery. She then moved to Kathmandu where after completing a Tibetan translator training course, earned a degree in Buddhist studies and Himalayan Languages from Kathmandu University. Ellen has had a hip replacement which has had a positive impact on her daily life.
Francesca D'Errico - Milan
Francesca d'Errico has been practising Ashtanga Yoga daily for over 25 years through a path on bodywork that began in her teens. She studied contemporary dance and worked as a dancer and dance teacher in Milan and London. She obtained a diploma as a personal trainer from the American Fitness Association in the early 1990s.
Moving to London in the late 1990s, she chose Ashtanga Yoga beginning a daily practice in the more classical Mysore style. She undertook teacher training first with the British Wheel of Yoga and later with the Yoga Alliance. During these years of great depth, she also became acquainted with Iyengar and Jivamukti techniques.
Francesca collaborates with Il Giornale dello Yoga, Yoga Magazine and is also involved in translation of texts on Yoga for OM Editions, a publishing house dedicated to publishing works on the teachings of Eastern philosophies. Edited works include "Anatomy of Vinyasa Flow and Standing Positions" by Ray Long, MD, and "Yoga Assists" by Sharon Gannon and David Life.
Leslie Kaminoff - New York City
https://yogaanatomy.org/ | @leslie.kaminoff
Leslie Kaminoff is a yoga educator inspired by the tradition of T.K.V. Desikachar, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the individualized, breath-centred application of yoga for healing. His passion is teaching teachers and Leslie founded The Breathing Project, a New York City based non-profit educational corporation which ran highly respected year-long courses in yoga anatomy from 2003 to 2017.
Leslie’s book Yoga Anatomy, (co-authored with Amy Matthews), sold out its first print run of 19,000 within one month of its June 2007 release and has been a top-selling yoga book ever since. It went into 12 printings before the newly revised third edition of Yoga Anatomy was released on October 31, 2011, now with well over a million copies in print and translations into 23 languages.
Dr Rob Lamport - UK
https://www.morethananatomy.com/ | @morethananatomy
Dr. Rob, the founder of More Than Anatomy has been a yoga practitioner for nearly 25 years. He is a Doctor of Chiropractic and has been helping people move towards health since 2000.
When he was 23, he completed his yoga teacher training, however, it was not long before he questioned if he knew enough to be teaching. The month-long training he had completed for his much-prized certificate did not give him the tools for a safe or effective teacher. On a personal level, he questioned the effect of all the advanced asana he was practising.
As he continued learning, his desire to share knowledge with others grew, and More Than Anatomy was born. Its goal is to provide the tools that every yoga teacher requires to fully understand the human body and the effect yoga has on it. This thought has been the driving force behind much of his life's work.
Adam Keen - Thailand
Adam will be moderating the event. He is co-founder of Keen on Yoga and is the host of the Keen on Yoga Podcast and YouTube channel.
He has been teaching Ashtanga Yoga since 2004 and practicing yoga since 1999. He is open about his struggles with mental health. A philosopher at heart, he shares his interests in deeper enquiry about the fundamental questions of life - what we're doing and why we're here almost daily on social media.
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