MISTY 2024 - Befriending Corpse Pose

Overview

What if death was known and respected and endings of all kinds, practiced? How can we be strongly in our body and our life, at the same time be as prepared to leave both as we die? Yoga has a lot to say about the human condition and offers a holistic perspective to help us practice impermanence.

In this session, recorded at the 2024 Montreal International Symposium on Therapeutic Yoga (MISTY), study Savasana, or Corpse Pose, in-depth.  

Not a rest, not a pause, not a time to grab a nap,

Savasana is the practice of dying. Instead of mastery or control, yoga makes room for a befriending of death.

Learn subtle breath, gentle movements, cross-cultural practices and skills of release that enable us to approach death compassionately and mindfully, even in the face of pain, fear and anxiety.  This session is appropriate for all humans who will fail to live forever.

Learning Objectives

In this online course, you will:

1. Dive deep into the tools that can help bring you towards some comfort and compassion when alongside someone facing end of life.
   
   
2. Venture to have a more peaceful mind in contemplating or facing your own end of life.
   

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 appropriate for all humans who will fail to live forever.