A Yin Perspective on Pain with Addie deHilster

Addie deHilster is a C-IAYT Yoga Therapist, a Yoga teacher trainer, and a Mindfulness Meditation Facilitator. In addition to leading yoga classes and meditation groups for the general public, she also teaches trauma-informed, accessible yoga and meditation for students with challenges such as chronic pain, arthritis, neurological issues, and insomnia. She has been leading 200-Hour Teacher Certifications and Yin Yoga Teacher Trainings since 2013. Her classes highlight the mindfulness principles within movement practice, helping students find an accessible pathway to the heart of what yoga and meditation have to offer.

A transcript of this episode can be found at the link below:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uwrd5NYrFLiOrBb0NNZek_P_I16q4mVtYAjw-ga-cdE/edit?usp=sharing

Check out more of Addie's work at:

www.movedtomeditate.com

In this episode Addie explains a few tips on how yin yoga can supportive to those experiencing chronic pain:

3 Understandable But Unhelpful Habit Patterns:

1)  Fixating (perhaps Yang in its intensity of laser focus on the pain, and the likelihood of stimulating a lot of thoughts like worry, catastrophizing related to the immediate pain experience)

2)  Avoiding/Distracting (perhaps Yang in its restlessness, the energy involved in moving attention away from what is happening, blocking out the experience)

3)  Overriding (quite Yang in that it involves a mind-over-matter attitude, where we force the body to do things despite the pain)