From Pain to Possibility Susi Hately
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- Health & Fitness
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You are a yoga teacher or a health professional who wants to integrate yoga therapeutically. You want a more holistic, biopsychosocial approach to helping your clients heal. You want to empower them to listen and to learn about their bodies.
In From Pain to Possibility, Susi Hately, B.Sc. Kinesiology blends modern understanding of anatomy and biomechanics with the ancient wisdom of yoga. This weekly show will share Susi's best ideas from over 25 years of helping her clients reduce and eradicate pain.
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Healing & Synergy: How Being a Great Teacher is Key to Helping Your Clients Out Pain with Ruth Ann Penny
Many of us in Western culture have a rigid understanding of the student-teacher relationship—one that places teachers in positions of authority to which students are taught to defer. But helping our clients to heal requires a relationship of exchange. In this episode, I’m speaking with Ruth Ann Penny, veteran educator and yoga teacher, about the role of teachers in helping clients out of pain.
Listen in as Ruth Ann and I share an in-depth discussion on our role as effective teachers, empowering our clientele to develop an inner locus of control, and forming a healing relationship with our patients.
Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.functionalsynergy.com/236
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Healing & Synergy: Lazy Glutes, Dead Butt, and the Art of Reconnection
I'm continuing my mini-series on reducing and eradicating physical pain for your clientele and today’s episode focuses on the glutes—specifically what people may refer to as “lazy glutes” or “dead butt”. In addition to addressing why such terminology can be detrimental to patients, we’ll walk through some of the core glutes exercises that are recommended in the rehabilitation process and the ways in which we, as health professionals, can help clients gain awareness so that they can properly execute these exercises and successfully gain strength.
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Healing & Synergy: The 5 Key Components to Help Clients Reduce and Eradicate Pain | Ep #234
As a health professional, it’s crucial to understand that your job is not to heal your clients but rather to provide them with the physical and mental tools required to reduce pain. In part two of my Healing & Synergy mini-series, I’m discussing the five key components to help reduce and eradicate your clients’ pain.
Listen in as I outline all five of these key components, including “compelling reason” and “strengthening for real,” as well as provide insights on how to implement these principles with your clients so that they can begin their healing journey.
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Healing & Synergy: A New Mini-Series
If you're a health professional or yoga teacher who wants to hone your ability to help clients reduce and eradicate pain, I recorded this episode and the upcoming mini-series for you!
Tune in to hear me discuss the connection between having fun while working with clients and growing your business, and strategies for cultivating a client base that is committed to your healing techniques. You'll learn what kinds of questions you should be asking yourself to effectively grow your healing skill set and, as a result, your practice.
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Strength is Easy
For many of my clients, the concept of becoming stronger is a challenge, especially after rehab. This is because their rehabilitation likely failed to instill a feeling of connection to their body and the movements required for strengthening. On today’s episode, I'm discussing the process you and your clients can use to make gains after rehab and why, despite common belief, strength can be easy.
Listen in as I explore how to gain better bodily awareness during rehab so that afterwards you can apply the necessary load/resistance increases to more easily become stronger—all without risking injury.
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Building Strength and Getting Stronger
Achieving strength—the kind of real strength that supports a pain-free life—requires a solid connection between mind and body. This is the type of strength that we rely on in the rehabilitation process, and I'm outlining how to build this strength in today's episode.
Tune in to hear me outline the eight principles of movement that will help you become more attuned to your body’s functions, foster a greater connection between your mind and your body, and start down the path toward alleviating and even eradicating pain.
Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.functionalsynergy.com/231
Customer Reviews
Mentor’s Mentor
Susi is a mentor/teacher to one of my most valued mentor/teachers. I have taken Susi’s I Love Anatomy online course for Yoga teachers, and learned so much about the mechanics of movement in the human body, about how we may be unconsciously compensating for a lack of mobility by moving in ways that are not ideal, and about how to move in ways that are beneficial. I can say with confidence that Susi is a caring, knowledgable teacher with huge integrity, and I highly recommend any course she might offer.
Susi is my number one go-to expert on pain care.
I have followed Susi for many years and consider her to be one of the most trusted experts when it comes to training yourself out of pain. Through her I met a lot of amazing thought leaders in the emergent pain science that completely changed my outlook on pain, sustainable pain care, and the exciting possibilities that can open up if we take on an exploratory approach to our own experiences. These podcasts are gold and I can’t wait to listen to the next episodes!
My background info: I am a yoga teacher focusing on working with chronic pain. I was plagued with chronic migraines myself for many years, trying all possible treatments under the sun and failing... before I realized that there’s another way, a way of gentle inquiry and curiosity, a way of recognizing “yellow lights” that Susi always talks about. And now I’m free of pain!