Simple Yoga Techniques as Clinical Intervention for Anxiety and Trauma

Seminar on DVD
By Mary NurrieStearns

Science clearly shows that yoga is a powerful clinical tool that can heal depression and anxiety.  Sensible and compassionate, this practice empowers clients, enhances the professional relationships and heals client and clinician alike.

Join Mary NurrieStearns, clinical social worker, yoga expert and author, for this highly informational and experiential video.  You will learn the skills to use these powerful yoga techniques to improve client outcomes - and feel renewed as a clinician as well.

Mary NurrieStearns teaches what she lives, credits these practices for profound personal healing and embodies the qualities of wholeness that spring from long term practice of yoga and meditation.  She has trained thousands of clinicians in the practices of yoga, meditation, mindfulness and self-acceptance.

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OBJECTIVES

  • Teach simple yoga practices as clinical skills

  • Apply breathing intervention/practice to reduce anxiety

  • Practice body scan to stabilize

  • Teach clients how to comfort and soothe self

  • Utilize mantras to create life affirming thoughts and decrease negative ruminations

  • Demonstrate the calming benefit of a very simple yoga practice


OUTLINE

Yoga as an Evidenced-Based Clinical Intervention: A holistic, mind/body approach

  • The physiology of anxiety and trauma and the healing process

  • Yoga and the anxious body

  • Yoga and the traumatized mind

  • Yoga and trauma in the body


Reduce Anxiety and Overwhelm with Breathing Interventions

  • Quickly reduced heighted anxiety

  • “Come to your rescue” breathing intervention

  • Interventions to facilitate diaphragmatic breathing

  • Calm the nervous system with “gentle exhalation lengthening”


Reduce Panic and Dissociation with a Simple Body Scan

  • Create internal safety

  • Shift attention from distressing thoughts

  • Teach and demonstrate body scan


Healing Complex Trauma Through Mantra

  • Reverse feelings of unworthiness

  • Self love and compassion mantra

  • Client developed mantra

  • Embedding mantra into the body with massage

  • Mentally imbed and reinforce mantra


Soothing with Comfort Poses

  • Reverse the flight/fight/freeze response of trauma

  • Practice variations of comforting body as self compassion


Simple Yoga Practice for Anxiety

  • Cultivate awareness

  • Safety

  • Practice numerous poses

ABOUT MARY NURRIESTEARNS, MSW, LCSW, RYT
Mary NurrieStearns, MSW, LCSW, RYT has over 35 years professional experience in mental health. She has been a yoga practitioner and meditator since 1990 and maintained a private practice in counseling since 1988. An advanced level yoga teacher, she conducts workshops on yoga and mindfulness, teaches meditation classes and facilitates meditation and yoga retreats.

A long time student of the relationship of body, mind and spirit, Mary served as editor of Personal Transformation, a magazine on psycho-spiritual growth and has been immersed in consciousness studies for over 20 years, working the leading authors and healers in transpersonal psychology, yoga and spirituality. She is author of several articles, co-edited the book Soul Living and co-author of the book Yoga for Anxiety (New Harbinger 2010), author of the upcoming workbook Yoga and Mindfulness for Mental Wellbeing. She has produced a video and CD’s on yoga, mindfulness and profound self-acceptance.

A highly acclaimed presenter, Mary is known for her compassion, ability to communicate and gentle humor. Her wealth of clinical information and profound understanding of yogic practices transform into powerful and easy to apply skills for mental health professionals. You will leave the seminar with something for yourself and your clients.

CE HOUR INFORMATION

NOTE: CE Certificates are available for $9.99. Please contact PESI Customer Service at 800-844-8260 for more details.

Social Workers: PESI is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB), 400 South Ridge Parkway, Suite B, Culpeper VA 22701. www.aswb.org. PESI maintains responsibility for the program. Licensed Social Workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval. Social Workers will receive 1.5 (clinical) CE hours for completing this self-study package. Course Level: All Levels.

Marriage and Family Therapists: This activity consists of 90 minutes of CE education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.

Psychologists: PESI is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. PESI maintains responsibility for this program and its content. PESI is offering these self-study materials for 1.5 hours of CE hours.

Addiction Counselors: PESI is an approved provider of CE hours by the National Association of Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC), provider #: 00131. This self-study package qualifies for 1.5 CE hours.

Nurses/Nurse Practitioners/Clinical Nurse Specialists: This activity meets the criteria for a formally approved American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Activity PESI is an approved sponsor by the American Psychological Association, which is recognized by the ANCC for behavioral health related activities.

This self-study activity qualifies for 1.5 CE hours.

NOTE: The seminar manual, CE information, and CE test are contained on disc #1 in PDF format. To access these documents, play disc #1 in your computer. For the video presentation, begin playing disc #1 in your DVD player.

  • Use simple yet powerful yoga techniques as clinical interventions for anxiety, trauma and more

  • Step-by-step demonstration of each technique

  • Learn easy methods for teaching clients


TARGET AUDIENCE
Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Therapists, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Other Mental Health Professionals