Using Pain Care Aware Language and Cueing in Yoga with Lisa Pearson

05/12/23 • 33 min

The words we use when teaching yoga practices matter more than you might realize when you are working with people who struggle with persistent pain.

Do you know what nocebic language is? If not, this is a must-hear episode!

Lisa Pearson joins us to answer that question and share insight on how seemingly harmless cues could be hurting your students and clients.

Lisa Pearson, 'Swami Swarupananda' is an 'ordained yogic priest' in the Kriya Yoga tradition. With nearly three decades of yoga teaching and yoga therapy experience, Lisa is a Certified Yoga Therapist and an Approved Professional Development Provider, through the International Association of Yoga Therapists, She is an E-RYT500 and Yoga Alliance Certified Education Provider. Swami Lisa is faculty and a program mentor for Inner Peace Yoga Therapy School, and is the Director and Lead Trainer for Pain Care Aware; a yoga teaching certification program which educates professionals about the intersection of pain science and yoga. Having lived with Fibromyalgia for over 30 years, Lisa teaches from her deep well of yoga wisdom, and also from her lived experience of pain.

Topics:

-Lisa’s yoga beginnings

-Why we should embrace all of the ways that people can find yoga

-What pain care aware language consists of

-Why saying “if it hurts, don’t do it” can be harmful

-What Nocebic language is

-Messaging that helps people self regulate and create awareness

-Instilling self-efficacy and agency

-How pain can be a message and how to decipher it

-Language we should be using in our classes

-Inviting agency rather than giving permission

-Lisa’s favorite ways to invite discernment

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Neil Pearson episode Managing Pain Through Yoga with Neil Pearson

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www.paincareaware.com

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The words we use when teaching yoga practices matter more than you might realize when you are working with people who struggle with persistent pain.

Do you know what nocebic language is? If not, this is a must-hear episode!

Lisa Pearson joins us to answer that question and share insight on how seemingly harmless cues could be hurting your students and clients.

Topics:

-Lisa’s yoga beginnings

-Why we should embrace all of the ways that people can find yoga

-What pain care aware language consists of

-Why saying “if it hurts, don’t do it” can be harmful

-What Nocebic language is

-Messaging that helps people self regulate and create awareness

-Instilling self-efficacy and agency

-How pain can be a message and how to decipher it

-Language we should be using in our classes

-Inviting agency rather than giving permission

-Lisa’s favorite ways to invite discernment

Please fill out our survey and receive a FREE I’m a Yoga Pro sticker! https://lynxshort.com/podcastsurvey

Would you or someone you know make a great guest?

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Neil Pearson episode Managing Pain Through Yoga with Neil Pearson

https://www.theyogapropodcast.com/managing-pain-through-yoga-with-neil-pearson/

Connect with Lisa:

www.paincareaware.com

[email protected]

Connect with Pamela:

www.theyogapropodcast.com

www.instagram.com/gratefullypamela

Email: [email protected]

Music: The State of Things (The Bouncy Song) by Rena Wren is used with permission.

www.renawrenmusic.com

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Discipline on Your Spiritual Journey with Amrit Singh

Having a spiritual journey can take quite a bit of discipline. In today’s episode, Amrit Singh joins us to share some insights on how to have more discipline, and to use compassion and forgiveness as a tool in your journey.

Amrit Singh has been studying Kundalini Yoga for over 30 years. He started in Germany in the early 90s. He then decided to move to India and dedicate his life’s work to help build and grow Miri Piri Academy in Amritsar for 20 years, where he served as Director of Residential Life.

Topics:

-Why discipline is so important to start at a young age

-Amrit’s yoga experience

-What happens to your old life when you start your spiritual journey

-How he got past the resistance to change

-The importance of ice bath in the search for spiritual discipline

-Embracing resistance

-Building discipline with small things

-Losing the guilt to vibrate higher

-Why your vices aren’t always the worst thing for you

-Amrit’s daily practices

-Prayer as a meditation tool

-Surprising thoughts about cigarette smoking

-Amrit shares a practice with us

-Having kindness and compassion for where you are today

-The importance of a gratitude practice

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Why You Still Need To Show Up Online with Amanda Kingsmith Ep. 114

In person yoga is back to stay but that doesn’t mean you should ignore the vast online market.

In this episode, Amanda Kingsmith joins us to share the advantages of having an online presence and some tips for doing it successfully.

Amanda Kingsmith is an RYT500, a yoga business coach, the host and founder of Mastering the Business of Yoga (M.B.Om), the MBOM podcast and is a world traveler. She blends her background in business with her love of yoga help yoga teachers create careers that they are passionate about and that are sustainable. Amanda is also the co-host of The World Wanderers, a podcast on travel and travel as a lifestyle.

Topics:

-Amanda’s first yoga experience

-Common threads in yoga stories

-Why she chose to help yoga pros with their businesses

-How she uses her podcast to learn from others and build her business

-The fast-changing world of social media and online marketing

-Why you might want to still show up online to build a bigger community

-The financial advantages of an online business

-Living the dream with a remote business

-What you learn about your speech habits when you make and edit your own videos

-Why teaching yoga online can make it more accessible for certain populations

-How studios are using hybrid classes to get ahead