30 Hours
Teaching Individuals - CERTIFICATE LEVEL
Deepen your understanding of the lived experience of pain, and apply Pain Care Aware principles and techniques within effective, individualized pain care plans.
A unique opportunity to listen, observe and experience without a need to solve anything.
Next Offering: Live/Virtual on ZOOM with Neil
May 2-5, 2024
4 Days ~ 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM, PacificRecommended for:
Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapists, Movement Professionals and Health Professionals
Personal Note From Neil & Lisa
Dear Friend,
The intent of this course is to provide an opportunity for you to join together with people in pain, yoga professionals and health care professionals. Health professionals learn to apply techniques that fit within a biopsychosocial framework, yoga therapists and teachers learn to apply pain science-inspired yoga to one-one interactions, and each have an opportunity to learn from the people we serve.
Pain is often medicalized and psychologized, leaving many health professionals wondering if pain care is outside their scope and many yoga teachers believing they need to become physiotherapists or counsellors to help individuals when pain persists.
Reconceptualizing pain takes time. Applying these new concepts to a therapeutic practice is highly beneficial, yet often difficult. Witnessing the experiences of people in pain helps, and you rarely have the chance to do so without needing to respond to the person’s questions, reflections and multifaceted, complex needs.
Current approaches to pain care can appear focused on changing cognitions or psycho-emotional factors. Other approaches continue to focus on ‘fixing’ the body. Yoga as therapy provides an even more integrated and expansive view of the human and of pain care than the biopsychosocial perspective. It provides options to use embodied experiences, changing interoception from top-down and bottom up approaches. Yoga provides the compassionate view that the person in pain is whole and not broken. Pain science offers the clinician an intellectual way to get embedded misconceptions about pain out of the way, while they provide expert-supported yoga practices and techniques.
There is no quick path to becoming Pain Care Aware in our therapeutic interactions. Completing this course and the Pain Care Aware Yoga Therapeutics Certificate prepares you to listen in new ways, to have greater conviction that change is possible, and to offer a pain science-inspired care plan to individuals living in pain. We hope this will not be where you finish your education about pain and yoga, and know it is a powerful way to start.
Join this community of like-minded health professionals and yoga therapists.
Complete a Pain Care Aware Certificate.
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…
- are a health professional, yoga therapist or movement professional who has completed Pain Care Aware Foundations.
- are hungry for more knowledge of pain, and of the lived experience of pain.
- want to dive deeper into ‘yoga and pain’.
- want guidance and mentorship in applying Pain Care Aware language, principles and approach in a one-one therapeutic setting.
Then this course is for you!
The Pain Care Aware Certification – individual applications will provide you with knowledge and skills to overcome barriers to effectively integrate yoga and pain science into your language, approach and pain care plans when helping individuals experiencing persisting pain.
What You'll Gain
With the Pain Care Aware Certification – individual applications.
- Over four days, your course facilitator will review pain from scientific and yoga philosophy perspectives, and provide a deeper understanding of these as they relate to one-one therapeutics.
- You will witness the experiences of people in pain, while you join our guests (people in pain) in practice of the foundational techniques of Pain Care Aware.
- You will observe the facilitator guiding and educating guests based on their experiences practising science-informed pain care the techniques.
- You will work with a guest to co-develop a daily Pain Care Plan, and then receive feedback from your guest and mentorship from your facilitator on the plan.
- After you have completed your certificate you will have developed new relationships as part of our growing Pain Care Aware community through which you can gain ongoing support.
- Thirty 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
30 Hours of Yoga Alliance CE Credits
Earn 30 hours CEUs for a total of 60 hours total CEUs.
What to Expect
30 Hours
Teaching Individuals - CERTIFICATE LEVEL
with Neil Pearson
May 2-5, 2024
4 Days ~ 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM, Pacific
$1295 USD
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Frequently Asked Questions
For additional questions about this course, please reach out to us anytime at info@paincareaware.com
- Those who have completed the Pain Care Aware Foundations online course
- Yoga therapists, yoga teachers and health professionals who work one-one with people in pain and want to integrate pain science with traditional yoga
This course completes the Pain Care Aware Certification – individual applications. You will apply what you have been practising since completing the Foundations course, and learn more about the lived experience of pain.
The twenty hours CE can be used as continuing education for yoga teachers (YACEP) or yoga therapists (APD-IAYT).
Pain Care Aware Certification – individual applications course is meant for a 1:1 application of yoga in pain care and is more suited to private yoga sessions or a therapeutic application of pain science and yoga on a 1:1 basis. Whereas Pain Care Aware Certificate – group applications 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.
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.)
Pain Care Aware Certification – individual applications is offered both virtually as well as in person when and where allowed. Check our calendar directory for course options and locations that work best for you.
Neil, Swami Swarupananda 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 evaluation
- 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).
