MISTY 2024 - Organ Systems: Regaining Authority Over your Health & Well-Being

Overview

This course, recorded at the 2024 Montreal International Symposium on Therapeutic Yoga (MISTY), looks at how lymphatic and immune systems are connected to digestive systems. What are the similarities and what are the differences? How can we influence our digestion with yoga?


With Katharina and Günter, we will dive deep into their approach to yoga therapy developed over the last decades within one-on-one sessions in outpatient clinic settings. They will come from both sides – body and mind – meeting the person with a problem and unique potential.

In their sessions, they discuss key features of tissue repair and reveal significant asana variations related to functional skills.
As Yoga therapy relies on the active participation of the client in the healing process, they will show ways to empower intrinsic motivation and support inner stability and emotional balance.

The workshop is an experiential firework of ideas, switching back and forth from theoretical explanations to practical : )

Learning Objectives

In this online course, you will:

1. Understand the importance of varied lifestyle choices and how they can affect the overall health and well-being of our clients and ourselves.
   
   
2. Learn from the multi-disciplinary perspectives of collaborative practitioners. 
   
   
3. Learn to empower intrinsic motivation and support inner stability and emotional balance in your clients.
   
   

Presenters Bios

Günter Niessen, Orthopaedic Surgeon, PhD, PT, C-IAYT, YACEP

Günter is a specialist in orthopaedics and trauma surgery, a qualified physiotherapist and yoga teacher with over three decades of experience in many forms of physical therapy and bodywork. Since starting his career in the mid-80s, he has treated tens of thousands of patients with both surgical and conservative methods.

Over time, his focus has increasingly shifted from conventional medical therapy to the application of gentle and holistic healing methods. In 2008 he opened his outpatient clinic for yoga therapy and orthopedic medicine in Berlin and founded a yoga therapy program, which is now merging into the extended training of Momentum Regeneration® working together with Katharina Lehman during the last five years. He is an ayurvedic therapist and certified yoga therapist, according to the criteria of the International Association for Yoga Therapy C-IAYT. momentum-regeneration.com.

Katharina Lehman, Mental Health Professional, E-RYT,YACEP

Katharina is a non-medical practitioner, for psychotherapy, art teacher and founder of Momentum Regeneration®.

She has taught yoga and yoga therapy internationally in group and individual sessions for over a decade and works in the 300 h yoga therapy training and her private practice. She demonstrates ways to integrate loving self-inquiry and inner balance through yoga into everyday life as part of one's self-care. Her heartfelt wish and passion is to accompany her clients on their paths to healing body, mind and soul. Katharina does this with a compassionate presence and a deep understanding of traumatic structures. momentum-regeneration.com.

Audience

This course is for anyone interested in overall health and those interested in helping their clients/patients improve their overall health.