MISTY 2024 - Befriending Corpse Pose
MISTY 2024 - Befriending Corpse Pose
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Overview
What if death was known and respected and endings of all kinds, practiced? How can we be strongly in our body and our life, at the same time be as prepared to leave both as we die? Yoga has a lot to say about the human condition and offers a holistic perspective to help us practice impermanence.
In this session, recorded at the 2024 Montreal International Symposium on Therapeutic Yoga (MISTY), study Savasana, or Corpse Pose, in-depth.
Not a rest, not a pause, not a time to grab a nap,
Savasana is the practice of dying. Instead of mastery or control, yoga makes room for a befriending of death.
Learn subtle breath, gentle movements, cross-cultural practices and skills of release that enable us to approach death compassionately and mindfully, even in the face of pain, fear and anxiety. This session is appropriate for all humans who will fail to live forever.
Learning Objectives
In this online course, you will:
- Dive deep into the tools that can help bring you towards some comfort and compassion when alongside someone facing end of life.
- Venture to have a more peaceful mind in contemplating or facing your own end of life.
Presenter Bio: Anne Pitman, M.Sc., C-IAYT, E-RYT500
Anne Pitman (she/her) holds a Masters in Kinesiology, is the Director of the School of Embodied Yoga Therapy and is a clinical Yoga Therapist at the Ottawa Integrative Cancer Centre (www.thechi.ca). She has 40 years of experience educating movement teachers, teaching embodied yoga and pioneering yoga therapy in Canada. Trained in functional biomechanics and Scaravelli-inspired yoga, Anne is a continuing scholar at the Orphan Wisdom School, an apprenticeship in grief literacy and the skills of living and dying well.
Recently, Anne (with Leigh Leibel) published Yoga Therapy Across the Cancer Care Continuum, which demonstrated the philosophical approach, vast education and human compassion required in oncological yoga therapy and showcased the stories of professional yoga therapists working in clinics and hospitals, worldwide, from cancer diagnosis onward.
A champion for healthcare integration, she regularly speaks at medical and yoga therapy conferences on diagnosis shock, the unrecognized grief of living in turbulent times, and the tender practice of accompanying people who are facing their dying days. www.annepitman.ca
Anne is also an educator and the Director of www.schoolofembodiedyogatherapy.com.
Audience
This course is appropriate for all humans who will fail to live forever.
The instructors
Co-Founder, President of MISTY
Her passion for yoga inspired her to share yoga with a few friends in the basement of one of whom eventually lost her battle with cancer. She soon realized her love of yoga could only be surpassed by the desire to share it with others & the joy of seeing them benefit from yoga on many levels.
In 2002 just after delivering a stillborn boy Helene embarked on a 200hr YTT Certification Course. During 2003 she continued the training at same time began teaching yoga at the St. Lazare Community Center. Helene continues to teach regular yoga classes with a therapeutic approach, offers Private Yoga Therapy Sessions & mentors a 200hr Yoga Teacher Training. Winter of 2018 she will introduce an Advanced Yoga Teacher Training focusing on Therapeutics.
Helene is also co-founder of this international conference bringing health care professionals & yoga therapist together with the mission of integrating yoga into the Canadian health care system.
Material included in this course
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Befriending Corpse Pose
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Feedback
Can I get a certificate for Continuing Education Credits/Units (CEs) for watching this course?
Yes this course counts for 2 CEs with IAYT. In order for the appropriate CEU information to be displayed on your certificate of completion, please add your CEU jurisdiction information on your Embodia profile. Learn how to do so in this guide.
I am concerned this course will be emotionally heavy and depressing...
It is an understandable concern, but Anne has this amazing way of presenting on this subject that somehow tends to leave attendees more grateful and at ease with this subject. This is her mission.
Is a certificate of completion included with this course?
Once you have completed the course, a certificate of completion (including learning hours and course information) will be generated. You can download this certificate at any time. To learn more about course certificates on Embodia please visit this guide.