Pain Care Aware

29/05/2025

The evolution of pain education, now integrating embodied experiences. If you are interested in using the body as an educational agent, join Martina and Neil June 13 in Canada.

Are you working with patients who understand pain science but still struggle to make meaningful change?

This course will suit allied health professionals seeking more options when patients do not engage with current pain science education processes or struggle to translate knowledge acquisition into behavioural change.

WHAT IS EMBODIED PAIN SCIENCE EDUCATION?
It’s an approach that brings learning into the body – consciously working with the body to make difficult, complex, or intangible concepts easier to grasp.
By engaging the felt sense of the physical body, we can help people experience pain science – not just understand it.
Through repeated, guided physical practices, individuals become more attuned to differentiating bodily sensations. This helps challenge misconceptions about pain and treatment, from within.

In this course, you’ll learn to:
✔️ Apply mind-body techniques to influence breathing, muscle tension, thoughts, and emotional states
✔️ Use techniques that enhance a sense of safety to shift perceptual processes, build affordances, and improve physiological self-regulation
✔️ Integrate these techniques into personalised pain-care plans
✔️ Practice and refine tools for both personal and clinical application
Scripts will be provided for key embodied education techniques.

💻 ONLINE COURSE – 3.5 hours (incl. break)
🗓️ AEST: Saturday 14 June, 9:00–12:30
🗓️ PDT: Friday 13 June, 16:00–19:30

👉 To register or find out more: https://www.noigroup.com/event/embodiment-in-pain-science-edu-online/

30/04/2025

Embodiment in Pain Science Education is a course open to ALL health practitioners, including yoga therapists and yoga teachers who serve people living in pain. Join Martina Egan-Moog and me through the Noigroup platform on June 14th in North America and June 15 in Australia . Embodied pain science education refers to consciously working with the body to make sense of pain and make sense of pain care techniques and practices.
Follow this link for more information and to register.

Embodiment in Pain Science Education, Online

16/02/2025

✨🧘200 HOUR YOGA TEACHER TRAINING 🧘✨

In collaboration with Yoga Health Academy, we are excited to share this YTT opportunity specifically for those interested in THERAPUTIC YOGA. Explore the intersection between YOGA and HEALTHCARE and expand your practice to provide a more holistic approach to your clients.

Grateful for our founders, Tanja and Dawn as well as our team members, Lisa and Neil for creating this opportunity for Broken Squirrel and our members!

More info and registration here: https://yogahealthacademy.com/canada-brokensquirrel/

Yardley Pearson Inner Peace Yoga Therapy

21/10/2024

Road tripping hOMe from beautiful California over the next week + proudly wearing our new Inner Peace Yoga Therapy hoodies!!❤️

26/09/2024

Hey friend, do you Meditate?
How do you connect to something greater than self?

28/02/2024

Dear Pain Care Aware,
How much pain is okay in asana when I have chronic pain?

👉This is one of the most commonly unanswered questions for yoga students, and for people in pain. It seems that the best answer has more to do with, “if pain is not a good guide for how much to exercise, what is?”

To read the full blog go to paincareaware.com/blog

21/02/2024

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.

Gain confidence and knowledge in effective pain care! Learn to guide students/clients with proven, science informed pain care skills, rooted in traditional yoga teachings.

In this 30-hour online professional development program, you will dive deep into yoga teachings and pain science, explore pain as a human condition and learn how to foster fearlessness, hope and resilience in yourself and your students when there is pain.

Check it out at paincareaware.com/course

✨Our next Guided Foundations is being offered March 4- April 8, 2024!

14/02/2024

Whether enjoyed alone or with a loved one, watching the sunset becomes an act of love. ❤️

In solitude, it becomes a self-care ritual, offering a serene space for personal reflection and appreciation.

With a companion, it transforms into a shared experience, creating moments of connection and intimacy. Regardless of the context, witnessing the beauty of the setting sun embodies a gesture of love, be it directed inward or shared with someone special.

07/02/2024

Dear Pain Care Aware,

Is it okay to forward bend in yoga when I have a history of low back pain or a disc bulge?

👍 Yes. Really! There seem to be as many misconceptions about discs as there are about pain. I learned many misconceptions in school in the 1980s, and I am surprised that many well-intentioned people share disc-misinformation that can limit function and recovery.

To read the full blog go to: paincareaware.com/blog

02/02/2024

Dear Pain Care Aware,
I was taught by my teachers that if there was sharp or hot pain that I was to tell a student to stop immediately. Should I continue to tell students this?

My recommendation is to tell your students to pause, explore and become more discerning about all pain. I also recommend that you do not equate pain with tissue injury, or the quality of pain to specific pathology.

To read the full blog go to: paincareaware.com/blog