PAIN CARE AWARE™ 

About

Ready to say ‘bring it on’ and believe it when people with pain show up in your classes?

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Join the movement - Become a Pain Care Aware™ teacher today!

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PCA™ is a two-step training program that brilliantly combines yoga and science 

for addressing and preventing pain.

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Based on traditional yoga philosophy and current pain science learn about the lived experience of pain, and what to do when someone has  pain during or after asana.

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One in four people live with chronic pain so you HAVE people in pain in your classes whether you are ready for them or not so might as well get ready!
 
Meet that challenge with confidence, knowledge and compassion by becoming Pain Care Aware™.

Turn any style of yoga into a class that helps with injury prevention and pain.

LANGUAGE MATTERS 

What you say in class makes a difference

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PCA™ provides an understanding of current pain science and cueing that fosters:

• Compassion

• Empowerment

• Awareness

• Curiosity

• Discernment

CONFIDENTLY OFFER SAFETY IN YOUR CLASSES 

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Build  your confidence as a teacher so  you can hold space with integrity and skill.

More and more people come to yoga as a non-pharmacological solution for pain and they are coming to you for guidance to help change their pain safely and effectively.

Yoga teachers experiencing persistent pain themselves will benefit both professionally and personally from the PCA™ program.

Pain Care Aware™ yoga teachers:

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• Offer greater safety with asana

• Safely and compassionately empower students to  challenge their  limitations

• Reconnect students to their true nature

• Cue greater ease of movement

Pain Care Aware provides yoga teachers with the knowledge and skills needed to adapt their teaching language and class cueing to a pain-informed approach to teaching yoga.

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With the best of intentions many of us teachers have been inadvertently fostering a sense of fragility and fear of damage in our students. 

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By integrating yogic and scientific views of pain and pain care, Pain Care Aware™ prepares teachers to use  yoga to help change pain. 

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Pain Care Aware arms teachers with pain care movement guidelines and gives yoga teachers the tools to influence a student’s pain during and after class.

LEVEL 1- PCA™ Self-Paced Online (30hrs) $395

The online PCA™ curriculum includes six modules (30 hours& CEUs) with self-reflection assignments and coursework questionnaires within each module. 

These modules include video, audio, PDF’s and quizzes on the following:

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• Pain Science

• Yoga and Pain Philosophy

• Awareness and Regulation Practices

• Movement Teaching Guidelines

• Pain Care Aware™ Language

• Pain Care Aware™ Cueing

• Current Research on Pain and Movement

• Integration of these Principles Into Yoga Classes

• Pain Neurophysiology Education

• Yoga and Pain Philosophy

• Connection to Yoga Ritual

Four to six weeks of dedicated study and practice time is recommended for this self-paced study.

Upon completion of all six modules in Level 1, students receive a certificate of completion and may progress to Level 2 to complete their Pain Care Aware™ YTT Certification.

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NB:  When you apply to get on the list for the Level II practicum, I will give you the link to begin Level I online, at your own pace.

LEVEL 2 - PCA Group Practicum and Certification (20hrs) $395

NB:  Completion of PCA™ Level 1 is a prerequisite to this course

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This practicum and certification course is typically completed over two to two and a half days.

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​Complete all the steps on the left and receive a graduate Certificate in PCA YTT.

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NB:  Due to COVID restrictions, online is the only option at the moment for a Level 2 certification with me.

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After receiving their PCA YTT Certification graduates are eligible to be added to the Pain Care Aware network of PCA teachers/studios and placed on the PCA teacher/studio locations page. 

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