A Wonderful Opportunity Awaits You (and Your Client) When Working with a Yoga Student
Lisa Tatham 4-21-2023
When working with an injured yoga student, you have the opportunity to help them get out of pain and, more fundamentally, change the way they are practicing to avoid future injury. To understand how an injury can occur in a practice that is meant to be conscious, it’s important to recognize what's commonplace in many 'yoga' classes today—fast, repetitive movements that are done with the cerebellum (unconscious) and do not leave time to receive the sensory feedback from movement. Students can be injured before they even perceive a warning sign. In many classes, students are watching someone else do the movements at the same time as they, themselves, are moving, which serves to further separate them from their own first-person, present-moment, lived experience. They are not sensing or even seeking their soma. In this presentation, we'll look at four common yoga postures and apply the principles of Hanna Somatics to them. In this process, you will see that the ways of somaticizing a yoga posture and practice are limitless and do not even require a knowledge of yoga. In teaching your client the principles of HSE, you will help them to heal as well as give them the tools to practice yoga in a way that is healing and holistic and leads to joy. In learning Hanna Somatics, your client can reconnect with their soma in a way that it becomes a guiding force in all parts of their life.
Lisa Tatham, CHSE has been teaching mindful practices in New York City for over 15 years. Upon completion of the Somatic Yoga Training with Eleanor Criswell and the Teaching Team at the Novato Institute, she began the three-year Hanna Somatic Education program and was certified in 2021. During this time, she also completed her certification in Trauma-Informed Yoga Therapy with Sundara Yoga. The knowledge and experience gained in these programs enhanced Lisa's understanding and practice of yoga. This prepared her to develop class curriculums for prenatal, oncology, and psychiatric patients, which she has the pleasure of guiding through the Weill Cornell Center for Health and Wellbeing. She is currently developing a class curriculum for medical students and residents of Weill Cornell Medicine. This is designed to support their own self-care practice, as well as inform the care they provide to their patients.
Website: http://yogainmovement.net
Phone: 212-679-0717
Email: lctatham@gmail.com