MISTY 2024 - Embodied Grief

Overview

"Bringing grief and death out of the shadow is our spiritual responsibility, our sacred duty", writes Francis Weller.

When our clients speak of trauma, pain, anxiety and depression, grief is often the unrecognized source of discomfort, the one who also needs to be heard and honoured. "Grief is not a feeling, but a skill", says Stephen Jenkinson. If so, how do we, as yoga practitioners, cultivate that skill for ourselves and in service to those who suffer, within a culture that demands we "get over it and move on"?

Learning Objectives

In this online course, you will learn:

1. To turn toward grief with attuned ears and a newly willing heart, so that we might learn how to recognize and listen generously to other's grief and carry our own with a practiced willingness and honed broken heartedness.
   
   
2. How to cultivate the skill of grief for ourselves and in the service of others.
   

Presenter Bio: Anne Pitman, M.Sc., C-IAYT, E-RYT500 

Anne Pitman (she/her) holds a Masters in Kinesiology, is the Director of the School of Embodied Yoga Therapy and is a clinical Yoga Therapist at the Ottawa Integrative Cancer Centre (www.thechi.ca). She has 40 years of experience educating movement teachers, teaching embodied yoga and pioneering yoga therapy in Canada. Trained in functional biomechanics and Scaravelli-inspired yoga, Anne is a continuing scholar at the Orphan Wisdom School, an apprenticeship in grief literacy and the skills of living and dying well.

Recently, Anne (with Leigh Leibel) published Yoga Therapy Across the Cancer Care Continuum, which demonstrated the philosophical approach, vast education and human compassion required in oncological yoga therapy and showcased the stories of professional yoga therapists working in clinics and hospitals, worldwide, from cancer diagnosis onward.

A champion for healthcare integration, she regularly speaks at medical and yoga therapy conferences on diagnosis shock, the unrecognized grief of living in turbulent times, and the tender practice of accompanying people who are facing their dying days. www.annepitman.ca
Anne is also an educator and the Director of www.schoolofembodiedyogatherapy.com.

Audience

This course is for anyone who has suffered any grief or works with those who have.