Yoga for Hips and Knees
with Loren M. Fishman, M.D., B.Phil. (Oxon.) and Gabriella Barnstone, C-IAYT, RYT 500
June 5 - 7, 2020
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.
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
About the Presenters
Loren M. Fishman, M.D., B.Phil. (Oxon.)
Dr. Fishman is Medical Director of Manhattan Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in New York City, author of ten books and more than 90 academic articles, and a world-recognized pioneer in the use of Yoga in medical conditions and the treatment of lower back pain and piriformis syndrome. He spent three years in India before going to […]
Learn more about Loren M. Fishman, M.D., B.Phil. (Oxon.)Gabriella Barnstone, C-IAYT, RYT 500
Gabriella Barnstone is a certified Yoga therapist and has been working at Manhattan Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation under the guidance of Dr. Loren Fishman since 2015. Her teaching is largely influenced by her studies with Judith Lasater, Carrie Owerko, and Jonathan Fitzgordon. Gabriella has taught courses with Dr. Fishman on Yoga for Back Pain, Yoga for […]
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