Sally King – Yoga & Mindfulness: Clinical Applications for Anxiety and Depression

Outline

Integrating Empirically-Based Practices: Yoga and Mindfulness

• Core elements of yoga and mindfulness
• Effects on health and stress
• Neuroscience – how contemplative practices rewire the brain
• Day to day, moment to moment practice
• Yoga and mindfulness as clinical interventions
• Trauma informed Yoga Practices

Yoga and Mindfulness: Clinical Interventions for the Mind and the Emotions

• Compassion for self and others
• Non-violence – recognizing and changing negative self-talk
• Increasing positive emotions, decreasing negative impact of unpleasant emotions
• Tools for working with intense emotions
• Letting go of false identities; strengthening the ‘true self’
• Mindful decision making through values clarification
• Strategies for relapse prevention
• Poetry as bibliotherapy – deepening understanding, building self-compassion

Yoga: Clinical Interventions for the Physical Body

• Gentle yoga sequences for anxiety and depression
• Mantras for addressing anxiety and depression
• Breathing practices to support a good mood
• Breath and emotional regulation
• Deep relaxation to decrease insomnia and anxiety
• Cultivating the capacity to witness and concentrate – clinical applications

Clinical Skills, Therapist Renewal

• Yoga and mindfulness as self-care practices for clinicians
• Practitioner strategies for deepening and maintaining non-judgmental presence
• Language for seamless integration of strategies into health care sessions