Enjoy a break from the ‘pain cycle’
Discover how to recognise what escalates your ‘pain’
Feel more comfortable again in your body, emotions and mind
Your deepest wish is that despite having no obvious signs or symptoms of pain to the outside world, you could experience daily life with more ease and joy.
You may be surprised to know that:
- Pain is a distributed phenomenon in the brain - in fact pain and stress responses come from the brain.
- Understanding how and why you hurt (called pain literacy) is demonstrated by research as a vital component to your healing.
- The nervous system moves and stretches as you move - so changing the way you move can change how your 'nerves' respond.
- Injury or disease does not mean that you have to feel pain.
Is this you?
- You’ve tried different specialists, clinics, even medications, but none provide long-lasting change. However, you know there are techniques you can learn for yourself.
- You ‘feel’ the accumulated tensions in your body but can’t seem to find effective ways to set them free.
- You experience good days and bad days and want more of the good.
- Certain places, events and even thoughts improve or worsen how you experience your ‘pain’.
Course Content
Course overview:
Persisting pain or discomfort affects all aspects of life. Many people adopt unhealthy strategies to deal with persisting discomfort including ‘pushing through it’, pharmacological relief, maladaptive behaviours or simply denial.
The more contemporary approach to managing pain is how the brain perceives and adopts this altered sensation and how pathways between the brain and body can be rewired.
This Course teaches non-pharmacological approaches to reduce your discomfort and improve your health and well-being again. It uses the therapeutic principles of yoga (known as Yoga Therapy) to teach you how to effectively move, feel, think, accept and change both on, and off the mat.
You will learn how to:
- identify, reinforce and create physical movement that is not necessarily harmful.
- move your body out of the overactive and tense ‘red’ zone and into the more relaxed and calm ‘green’ zone.
- change how your brain perceives when you are in ‘danger’ of discomfort.
- identify and change your 'inner' obstacles that can manifest as physical symptoms.
- H.E.A.L your emotions and mind, to reframe your attitude towards pain.
About your Yoga Therapist - Caroline Giles
My entire working life (40 years) has been in the healthcare profession, facilitating others to become the best version of themselves. This has included working in neurological rehabilitation, national health research, online professional writing and now as a Yoga Therapist (with a yoga business of some 15 years). Consistently I work with students in group classes and privately for yoga therapy, who seek and find solutions to create rest in their day.
This Course is based on a contemporary understanding of how to support people to move and live well. For many, it will enable the establishment of helpful strategies to move, despite any discomfort or pain.
There are benefits to you!
- less appointments and more available time and money for yourself! With consistent practice of the various techniques, you can self-manage many physical issues that arise day-day.
- learning to use your brain to create change in the body, reduces inflammation (pain).
- changing the words you use and hear, has a powerful effect on the brain and your ‘pain’.
- understanding why and how you hurt, promotes the healing process and your adaptation to ‘pain’.
Frequently Asked Questions:
In general, these practices are not strenuous however require a reasonable state of health. As stated in the Important Note below, before starting any new form of practice, I do recommend seeking the opinion of your health professional.
You can also connect with me via the Contact Page, and we can talk through any concerns prior to your purchase.
Most of the practices (especially any breathing or meditation) can be completed in a chair or on your bed. You can also sit on some height on your mat, like on a bolster or on some folded blankets.
If you wish to talk through any concerns prior to your purchase, please connect with me via the Contact Page.
All these Courses and practices are based on my 15 years of teaching experience with a vast range of students. I also work therapeutically, supporting people individually with complex health issues. In general, this is not the expertise you will receive in a public group yoga class.
You can read more about my experience here.
There are many reasons why people have intermittent or persistent pain. All these Courses focus on mindful practices to repattern the brain-body connections, to create long-lasting change.
As stated in the Important note below, these learnings do not replace any medical advice/medications. However you may notice with continued practice that your need for these changes.
These Courses and practices are designed to be complementary to other health professional input. Body-based treatments can be particularly useful as they target specific body areas.
If you are unsure, please talk with your health professional or contact me for a chat here.