Yoga for Hips and Knees

For everyone, including Yoga teachers and health professionals

Learn the anatomy of the hips and knees and the most common difficulties that befall them during our Yoga practices. Discover how to teach healing poses for conditions that affect each joint and the elements of proper alignment and ‘just right’ stretching to avoid injuring them in the first place.

People often look to Yoga as a means to alleviate pain. But knee and hip joint pain present a double challenge since they are frequently a source of movement limitations in Yoga practice. Therefore, it is difficult to practice the Yoga that can help! While Yoga can be helpful in alleviating hip and knee discomfort, it is crucial that you know how to address these parts of the body.

Since students come to the mat with different levels of pain and limitation, we will show you graded approaches with workarounds for any Yoga practice.

This weekend, you will learn:

• Which poses help with hip and knee problems
• Poses that should be avoided for certain knee or hip conditions
• How to spot practices and pitfalls that endanger these joints in your students and clients

Some of the conditions will cover for the hips: femoracetabular-impingement (FAI), labral tear, and hip replacement.

Conditions we will focus on for the knees: meniscal, ligament and cruciate tears, and knee replacement.

Continuing Education (CE) Opportunities

• Yoga Alliance (YA):  Approximately 7 contact hours. You can input your contact hours using your YA login information.
• Integral Yoga Teachers Association (IYTA) can provide you a CE certificate with your program’s total contact hours for a $10 fee (free for IYTA members.) For more information, email membership@iyta.org.
• International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT): Approved Professional Development (APD) course eligible for IAYT continuing education credits. (It is the students’ responsibility to request a certificate of completion and submit all required documents, hours, syllabus, etc. on the IAYT website.)

Testimonials

If you can attend only one more workshop in your yoga life, make it here with Dr. Fishman. — Bev Godfrey

… a Thomas Edison of Yoga therapy. — William Broad, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Science of Yoga

Dr. Fishman, You saved me by diagnosing me and you have been so incredibly kind and helpful to me—you are number one among the thirty-plus health professionals I have dealt with in the last four years. I will take care of it over the weekend. Thank you so much for your care. — Angela