Integral Yoga online workshop

Transforming Anger and Fear -Yoga’s Practical Wisdom

Enroll/ONLINE

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Enroll/IN-PERSON

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ONLINE & IN-PERSON | $35 for both Thursdays – May 5 & 12

We all encounter challenging situations that trigger strong emotions like fear or anger, which undermine our ability to act with clarity and care. In this 2-part workshop, we’ll explore how to recognize and relate to these powerful emotions, how to look deeply and understand their root causes, and how to receive the messages these emotions bring. We’ll discuss the steps needed to support our efforts to be present and compassionate with these deep-seated feelings, so that we can respond to them skillfully and use them as opportunities to guide our personal and spiritual growth.

The first session will focus on how anger originates, how it affects us, and how its energy can be released and expressed in appropriate ways.

The second session will explore the roots of fear, and how to bring awareness, healing and transformation to the psychic knots that bind our energy and weaken our ability to experience compassion and joy.

Swami Ramananda is the Executive Director of the Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco and a greatly respected senior teacher in the Integral Yoga tradition, who has been practicing Yoga for over 45 years. Ramananda offers practical methods of integrating the timeless teachings and practices of Yoga into daily life, and transforming the painful aspects of human experience into steps toward realizing one’s full potential.
He leads beginner, intermediate and advanced level Yoga teacher training programs in San Francisco, and offers a variety of programs in many locations in the U.S., Europe and South America. Ramananda co-developed the Stress Management Teacher Training program with Swami Vidyananda, has trained many teachers to bring Yoga into corporate, hospital and medical settings, and has taught mind/body wellness programs in many locations. He is a certified Yoga therapist and founding board member of the Yoga Alliance, a national registry that supports and promotes yoga teachers as professionals. He is a co-founder of The Spiritual Action Initiative (SAI) which brings together individuals committed to working for social justice for all beings and for the care and healing of our natural world. His warmth, wisdom and sense of humor have endeared him to many.

Yoga for Lower Back Pain – Online

Enroll via Yogaville here

ONLINE via Yogaville | When you register via the link above, you help Yogaville support Integral Yoga San Francisco as an affiliate. Thank you!

$700.00 | Please register by 5 pm, Nov. 5 | Financial Aid is available.

DATE & TIME Live sessions with Dr. Fishman:

Fridays: Nov. 5 & 7
4 – 6 pm PDT (7–9 pm EDT)

Saturdays: Nov. 6 & 13
6:30–8:30 am & 11:30–1:30 pm PDT (9:30–11:30 am & 2:30–4:30 pm EDT)

Sundays: Nov 7 & 14
6:30–8:30 am & 11:30–1:30 pm PDT (9:30–11:30 am & 2:30–4:30 pm EDT)

In this (2 weekends) online workshop, Dr. Fishman will explain seven basic causes of low back pain and teach you how to identify the proper one, relieve the pain it produces, and how to avoid the causes of pain in the first place.
This course is designed to help participants with their own back pain, aid them in understanding and alleviating back pain in others, and guide them in using Yoga to relieve and prevent future back pain. This straightforward approach uses anatomy, but requires no previous study. Because the course is online, you will learn to teach the important poses by virtually teaching your classmates.

Back pain can bewilder even seasoned therapists. This is partially because back pain and sciatica are symptoms, and effective treatment requires finding the cause.
Dr. Fishman has seen more than 20,000 patients with back pain and written five books and a large number of academic papers about Yoga for back pain.
Live sessions with Dr. Fishman and assistant Liz Larson on Fridays at 7–9 pm, and Saturdays and Sundays at 9:30–11:30 am and 2:30–4:30 pm ET.

You will have access to the video recordings for 8 weeks after the program ends, until January 9, 2022.
In addition, you will have access to the Ashram’s Live Hatha Yoga classes at 5 pm ET, recorded Ashram meditations, and inspiring talks with Sri Swami Satchidananda. You will also have access to an online social community to connect and communicate with other participants about this course.
Dr. Fishman’s assistant, Liz Larson, RYT 200, is a precise and intuitive teacher who has worked with Dr. Fishman for 5 years.

Continuing Education (CE) Opportunities:
Yoga Alliance (YA): Approximately 20 contact hours. You can input your contact hours using your YA login information.

Integral Yoga Teachers Association (IYTA) can provide you a CE certificate with your program’s total contact hours for a $10 fee (free for IYTA members.) For more information, email ce@iyta.org.
International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT): Approved Professional Development (APD) course eligible for IAYT continuing education credits. (It is the students’ responsibility to request a certificate of completion and submit all required documents, hours, syllabus, etc. on the IAYT website.)

Testimonials
“I feel so much more informed about what Yoga poses help for the different causes of lower back pain. — Carol Murray
The program was excellent and extensive—totally loaded with good info!” — Past Participant

“This was another one of Dr. Fishman fantastic educational trainings! I would attend more trainings/workshops with Dr. Fishman. He genuinely enjoys helping people and explains what he is teaching from both a medical perspective and a yogic perspective. Most importantly he imparts kindness and great wisdom, always in such a cheerful way. We leave with many golden nuggets. Thank you Dr. Fishman and Yogaville for a great learning experience!” — Mona Flynn

“I truly enjoyed the material given by slides, examples of Yoga, and volunteer demo. The speaker was awesome and knowledgeable. I’ve learned so much from Dr. Fishman. He’s inspired me to learn more and learn how I can heal my own body with Yoga. I’m so grateful for my growth and progress.” — Dionne Daly Presenter

Loren M. Fishman, M.D., B.Phil. (Oxon.) is Medical Director of Manhattan Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in New York City, author of ten books and more than 90 academic articles, and a world-recognized pioneer in the use of Yoga in medical conditions and the treatment of lower back pain and piriformis syndrome. He spent three years in India before going to medical school and has used Yoga to reverse the deficits of rotator cuff syndrome, straighten the scoliotic spine, actually strengthen osteoporotic bones, and aid in medical conditions as diverse as insomnia, obesity, and restless leg syndrome. Other non-surgical interventions relieve plantar fasciitis, arrest the development of bunions, and retard the progress of arthritis and multiple sclerosis.

In addition to his private practice, Manhattan Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, he is Associate Editor of Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation, on the staff at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, and a past president of the New York Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr. Fishman has an advanced degree in Philosophy from Oxford University.

He has conducted clinical trials on the efficacy of physical therapy and two types of botulinum neurotoxin and has also been a specialist in electrodiagnosis of entrapment syndromes, radiculopathies and sciatica for over 25 years. In addition, he has worked with artificial intelligence and machine learning to predict the trajectory and end-points of inpatient recovery in order to properly gauge hospital length of stay and reduce readmissions.

See more at sciatica.org