20 Hours
Teaching Groups - CERTIFICATE LEVEL
Complete our practicum to receive expert feedback, and to practice and observe others integrating Pain Care Aware language and approach into their teaching.
Recommended for:
Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapists, Movement Professionals and Health Professionals
Personal Note From Neil & Lisa
Dear Friend,
Lisa and Neil believe that when you integrate the platform of pain science together with yoga, you will more clearly address the needs of many of the students in your classes. More and more people are coming to yoga because of pain, and we all experience pain during yoga classes. Pain Care Aware helps all individuals – finding more options when there is pain during asana, discovering ways to explore pain rather than ignore or avoid it, and learning how to challenge our abilities in ways that allow breaking through previous limitations.
If you are reading this, you are probably a yoga teacher who found some answers for yourself and your students in the Pain Care Aware Foundations course. We hope you will continue as a student in this process, learning more about decreasing the impact of pain on society through the platforms of pain science and yoga. Both yoga and pain are immense topics. Like you we believe that everyone starting to learn about pain needs far more than an online course to successfully apply this knowledge to their work. Just like health professionals, yoga teachers benefit from receiving feedback and learning from others as part of the learning journey. And we hope you will decide to continue long after this course.
You’ve experienced those a-ha moments during yoga practice … those times when you realized that you already knew something, but now you ‘really’ know it. The same things happen as we continue to practice Pain Care Aware language and approach. After all these years, we still get them. We hear a teacher use language we have never considered, a student in a Pain Care Aware class say something in a way that just makes so much sense, and we catch ourselves saying something like, “Self-study illuminates pain science”. The point is that we hope you will experience such things when you join us for the practicum and certificate.
There is no quick path to becoming pain care aware, and to integrating pain science into yoga teaching. Completing this practicum helps you shift your language and approach. We hope this will not be where you finish your education about pain and yoga, yet it is a powerful way to start.
Join this community of like-minded yoga teachers.
Complete a Pain Care Aware Certificate – group applications.
Changing pain is possible.
Neil & Lisa
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Ready to Become Pain Care Aware?
Take the first step to integrate yoga and pain science into your yoga teaching, yoga therapy or health professional clinical practice.
Why This Course is For You
If you’ve…
- completed the online Pain Care Aware course and you want more
- wondered if you could enhance your Pain Care Aware language and approach by receiving feedback and through experiencing how others integrate pain science into their classes
- experienced self-doubt in integrating Pain Care Aware language, techniques and approach into your current classes
It can be difficult to receive feedback, yet the compassionate and clear suggestions you receive through this practicum will move you closer to your goals. You will leave the training with more confidence, a Pain Care Aware Certificate and a process to continue self-assessment.
What You'll Gain
- Meet new people and learn from their language and approach
- Received expert feedback
- Learn by observing and providing feedback to other yoga teachers
- Gain confidence and conviction, while continuing personal self-study
- Relationships with like-minded and like-hearted teachers within the Pain Care Aware community
- Twenty CE hours
How it Works
Step 1
Complete the Foundations Course
The self-paced course includes six modules, 30 hours CEUs.
Step 2
Practicum and Certification
Visit our Calendar for upcoming Certificate Level Program dates.
Step 3
20 Hours of Yoga Alliance CE Credits
Earn 20 hours CEUs for a total of 50 hours total CEUs.
What to Expect
20 Hours
Teaching Groups - CERTIFICATE LEVEL
with Lisa Pearson
Register for our next offering:
This will be an Online Cohort!!
April 19-21, 2024
$1095 USD
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Frequently Asked Questions
For additional questions about this course, please reach out to us anytime at info@paincareaware.com
- Yoga Teachers of any style or lineage or approach to asana.
- Yoga Therapists who teach therapeutic style classes of any variety.
- Movement Teachers of any style or brand who want to integrate the language of compassionate pain care into their classrooms.
- Personal Trainers and Coaches who want to be informed about pain and the language to use in classes and with clients in todays current understanding of pain care.
This course completes the Pain Care Aware Certificate – group applications. You will apply what you have been practising since completing the Foundations course.
The twenty hours CE can be used as continuing education for yoga teachers (YACEP) or yoga therapists (APD-IAYT).
This course has a focus on yoga class cueing and changing our language in yoga and other mindful movement practices, to include people in pain and to inform yoga teachers on what to do when there is pain in yoga. Whereas the individual applications course is meant for a 1:1 application of yoga and pain science, and is more suited to private yoga sessions or a therapeutic application of pain science and yoga on an individual basis.
Completing both certificates is a great idea if you offer both group classes and 1:1 teachings. You would only pay for the Foundations Course once and complete the certificate courses individually. (A total of 80 hours CEU is available when completing both PCA certificates.)
Both Pain Care Aware Certifications are offered virtually as well as in person, when and where allowed. Check our calendar directory for course options and locations that work best for you.
Swami Swarupananda (Lisa) and other PCA Trainers. Check our calendar directory for course options and locations that work best for you.
- 2 to 2 1/2 days of PCA Trainer Contact Hours.
- Practicum and Certification; prepare PCA classes for review and eval.
- Receive and give feedback from group cohort peers.
- PCA Trainer evaluation and guidance in shifting class cueing to be PCA.
- Opportunity to practice new language and class cueing in a safe and wise container.
- Ritual and connection.
- Upon completion of application evaluation, students receive their Pain Care Aware™ YTT Certificate (50 CE/APD hours total including 30 hour completion of pre-requisite).
