In Person Sessions
Therapeutic Yoga for Chronic Fatigue, Long Covid, Fibromyalgia
11 week course
Begins Friday 26 April 11 am - 12.30
To book email sunderlandrecoverycollege@gmail.com
Using gentle movements, breathing, relaxation and short meditations or visualisation practices to create the conditions for healing.
This is a trauma informed and compassionate approach is supported by science as well as rooted in authentic Yoga practice that nourishes all layers of our being.
The practices can be done seated, lying, in bed or standing if you feel more energy.
The art is finding the position works for you
Healing chronic fatigue is a many layered and complex process.
This course uses the breath as a tool for regulation, so it's for you if you feel too uncomfortable focusing on your breath (my trauma-sensitive yoga course is suitable for you).
The first few weeks we focus on creating more Functional Breathing - releasing the muscles that maintain stress breathing, understanding how energy and created, the role of CO2 levels and how to increase energy at a cellular level through the way we breath.
Then we move onto Befriending our Mind and Body - understanding the impact of our mind our nervous system and cultivating the medicine of Kindness to enhance our healing capacity.
More About Functional Breathing
Over-breathing, which is very common in our modern culture, keeps our nervous system in survival mode. It's a key component in many chronic illnesses including M.E/CFS, Fibromyalgia & Long Covid.
Over-breathing distorts our balance of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in and this biochemical imbalance stresses every system in our body. Breathing light, slow and low is a key to our emotional and physical well-being.
So we use mindful movement to strengthen underused breathing muscles whilst relaxing others, in a gradual process of supporting the mechanics of functional breathing.
We will explore:
- Finding safety in the mind & body as a foundation for practice
- Practices to restore the habit of functional breathing in daily life & build our energy reserves
- De-stressing with gentle, undulating movements, sound and relaxation practices
- A trauma-sensitive yoga approach that is underpinned by science
More about Befriending our Mind & Emotions
We might recognise that part of our stress comes from within us. The way we talk to ourselves or even become our inner bully. Can we step onto our own side and support ourselves with kindness? In order to shift our nervous system out of survival-flight/fight/freeze mode-and create the conditions to rebalance and heal our physiology. When we shift into our 'healing state' the body knows what to do to balance our physiological processes. It can get on with maintenance and repair.
It's like getting our of our own way. With Yoga we can craft practices where the mind supports and body and the body support the mind to create change in the nervous system, brain, and the powerhouse of each cell that creates our energy.
Weaving visualisation and kindness practices into our movement and relaxation.
Sally is Yoga Therapist and training to be a Yoga Psychotherapist. She suffered from chronic fatigue in her early 20s which sparked her healing journey and drew her to Yoga and different healing modalities. This has included Trauma-Sensitive Yoga, learning about nervous system regulation, Feldenkrais and Somatic Experiencing.
Over the past 5 years she has offered her Trauma-informed work in a variety of organisations in the North East of England. Tyneside Women’s Health, Sunderland Recovery Collage, NIWE, Northumberland Recovery College, Cygnus Support & Mentoring, the Road to Recovery Trust.
Her career began as an Information Scientist and then a Community Education Worker/Women’s Support Worker, before finding her vocation as a Yoga and Meditation teacher in 2001. She has done full Teacher Training courses in Hatha Yoga, Anahata Yoga (500 hr), Scaraveilli-Inspired Yoga and Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga.
She holds a 580 hour Diploma in Yoga Therapy specialising in Mental Health with the The Minded Institute. Her work is rooted in science as well as the art and science of Yoga.
Her teaching reveals the threads of many influences from Yoga, including Heather Mason (Yoga Therapy for mental health/breathwork), Robin Rothenburg (Yoga Therapist & researcher in breathing for health), David Emerson (Trauma-Sensitive Yoga), Yasmin Labat (Yoga for Chronic Pain-Myo-fascial approach), Kristine Weber (Yoga for Mental Health) , Fiona Agombar(Yoga For CFS), James Reeves (iRest Yoga Nidra for PTSD).
Sally runs regular Mindfulness and Compassion courses and weaves its insights and practices through her Yoga. She has completed 4 years of training with the Mindfulness Association as well as International Compassion teachers, Paul Gilbert, Kristin Neff and Chris Germer.
She adheres to the Good Practice Guidelines and has regular supervision for both Yoga Therapy and Mindfulness teaching.
For more information about Sally's training and qualifications read more …