USABP SPOTLIGHT SERIES WITH PHOENIX RISING SCHOOL OF YOGA THERAPY PRESENT AN EXPERIENTIAL JOURNEY INTO YOGA THERAPY USING THE PHOENIX RISING METHOD.

Presented by Michael Lee, founder of Phoenix Rising School of Yoga Therapy

This event will be recorded and available for members and non-members who register for this event. This course will not include CEs.

Description

"The Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Method combines breath work, gentle poses, mediation and guided self-inquiry, designed to help people safely embrace their physical limits in order to gain mental and emotional insights into themselves. It does not replace psychotherapy (talk therapy), but rather provides a somatic pathway to a deeper understanding of the self." Yoga Journal - Sept 2020

In this workshop we will reference two approaches to healing based on their underlying paradigm—symptom management: in which the primary focus is on the treatment of symptoms and related conditions, and transformation: where the primary focus is upon whole-being transformation.

Most health professionals are aware that yoga provides a doorway to transformational healing. Yet, how do you deliver that experience to clients and students? Michael Lee, founder of PRYT, has taught exactly that for over 35 years. This experiential yoga therapy workshop with Michael is your chance to experience first-hand the unique benefits of yoga delivered with a transformational approach.

We’ll start with a led experience in which Michael will skillfully facilitate you in the 6 Phase Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy process. You will witness first-hand the power of tapping into the wisdom of the body in order to build a transformational bridge to new ways of ‘being’ in life.

Following the experience Michael will discuss:

1. The distinction between Symptom Management and Transformation: the underlying values and relevance of each.

2. Significance of present centered embodied awareness vs. narrative referencing in the transformational approach to healing.

3. The art of facilitating the container which sets conditions for transformation to occur.

4. The importance of taking into account the unique set of conditions that present with the individual before you.

5. Yogic and Buddhist philosophy and psychology underlying the Phoenix Rising Method.

You learn:

1. Language that facilitates present centered embodied awareness.

2. An easy to apply technique for engaging clients in embodied focused awareness.

3. How to determine when the client is open to engaging a transformational approach: comfort zone vs learning edge.

Excerpt from Michael's chapter Transforming Psycho-emotional Pain – from the book Yoga and Science in Pain Care:

SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT

Symptom-management methods often include practices, protocols, tools, and courses of treatment that can be employed to alleviate or lessen the impact of the symptoms and the associated pain. The goal of the practitioner is to minimize suffering in either the short or long term. If the approach is effective, the suffering experienced from the pain will be less intrusive in the individual’s life, and so life may become more manageable or tolerable on a day-to-day basis. The symptom- management approach may be highly interventional, or it may be more integrative but still aimed at creating a specific outcome for the patient, for example giving a client a simple mindfulness technique to help them overcome bouts of anxiety. It is the most widely used approach in healthcare.2 Success is measured in terms of positive change in the initial prevailing symptom or “condition” being treated. Such outcomes are generally easy to evaluate, and this could explain why these kinds of approaches are more likely to be chosen for research.

TRANSFORMATIONAL APPROACH

Whole-being transformation engages a process from which new insight or wisdom emerges. This produces a change in beliefs or values and new behavior results, and a different experience of life is engaged. The old way of seeing and experiencing life no longer makes sense and new beliefs and ways of engaging life are born. The moment the life-changing insight is integrated, a shift is activated. The full manifestation and life impact of this shift may or may not be immediate, but either way there is a new way of engaging life in place and a strong desire to move in this new direction is set in motion.3 The new level of awareness accompanying this change acts as a compass for future choices and, although the process may take time to become fully established, a new way of being in life is in play. Things that previously mattered no longer matter, and other things previously ignored take on new importance. This new direction often changes some or most of the conditions that gave rise to the pain and suffering in the first place. In some cases, symptoms may completely disappear. The result of what is produced as a result of the shift is what is valued in transformational work. This outcome is often accompanied by less tangible and not so easily measurable outcomes that are relative to the individual. These may include such things as a sense of greater meaningfulness in life, increasing joy and happiness, or greater fulfillment in life.

IMPORTANT!

Wear loose comfortable clothing and if possible, you may wish to have on hand a journal and a cushion or chair for meditation. No yoga experience is necessary for this workshop.

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