Medical Yoga Self-care
Being a healthcare professional/therapist is associated with special requirements and challenges. This involves working days where you are a helper in a meeting with people who are in pain. The role of therapist means that you get close to suffering. It turns out that to be in contact with
people with mental and/or physical difficulties can be a burden for the therapist. Complex cases, lack of recovery and sad fates can be thought to constitute a burden
overtime.
Terms such as vicarious traumatisation, secondary traumatisation and care fatigue have been introduced since the 1990s to describe the burdens people in helping professions may experience as a result of their profession.
Even after these concepts were launched, within today's health and care professions there is still a one-sided focus on the work you have to do, and a particularly insufficient (or no) focus on what the job can do to you and how to prevent and deal with it the burdens associated with the work one performs.
Being a healthcare professional/therapist is associated with special requirements and challenges. This involves working days where you are a helper in a meeting with people who are in pain. The role of therapist means that you get close to suffering. It turns out that to be in contact with
people with mental and/or physical difficulties can be a burden for the therapist. Complex cases, lack of recovery and sad fates can be thought to constitute a burden
overtime.
Terms such as vicarious traumatisation, secondary traumatisation and care fatigue have been introduced since the 1990s to describe the burdens people in helping professions may experience as a result of their profession.
Even after these concepts were launched, within today's health and care professions there is still a one-sided focus on the work you have to do, and a particularly insufficient (or no) focus on what the job can do to you and how to prevent and deal with it the burdens associated with the work one performs.
When we do something over a long period of time, it becomes a habit/unhabit. When we have "established" an incorrect breathing pattern over time, we run the risk that they will become permanent and can cause increased stress, lack of oxygen and lack of energy.
Breathing is perhaps the activity we think about the least, but which can mean the most to our mental and physical health. It's automated, and it goes by itself and we usually don't think about it. Breathing can affect sleep quality, energy levels, stress levels, emotions, combustion, the immune system and the skin. Stopping and becoming aware of your breathing is perhaps one of the most important health measures you can take.
When we do something over a long period of time, it becomes a habit/unhabit. When we have "established" an incorrect breathing pattern over time, we run the risk that they will become permanent and can cause increased stress, lack of oxygen and lack of energy.
Breathing is perhaps the activity we think about the least, but which can mean the most to our mental and physical health. It's automated, and it goes by itself and we usually don't think about it. Breathing can affect sleep quality, energy levels, stress levels, emotions, combustion, the immune system and the skin. Stopping and becoming aware of your breathing is perhaps one of the most important health measures you can take.
Practical info
Course holder is doctor and yoga teacher Tiril Elstad.
The certification course runs over two days
You get a manual with theory.
Price: NOK 4990
Start: 11 and 12 November 2023, at 10:00-16:00
Where: Balderklinikken, Oslo and online
