Description: While most of us have mild asymmetries right side to left, those living with scoliosis have a three dimensional asymmetry that can put additional strain on the lungs and internal organs. Breathing and digestion can be inhibited and movement through life painful. The jigsaw puzzle of scoliosis often presents a challenge for yoga teachers and other bodywork and movement professionals.

This workshop is designed as a teaching clinic for both practitioners and those living with scoliosis to encourage all to see outside the box of traditional asana. We’ll customize practices to address each quadrant of the spine appropriately: rt/left thoracic; rt/left lumbar. Utilizing an array of tools and most importantly a way of understanding the particular structural needs of those living with moderate to severe scoliosis, this course offers a means to bring balance and relief to areas of chronic tension and pain to those suffering with curvature of the spine.

Please identify whether you have scoliosis when registering for the course.

Upon completion of the seminar you will be able to:

• Identify and define the difference between structural and functional scoliosis.
• Learn how to see scoliosis and interpret the spinal curvature from a muscular perspective.
• Develop adaptations of asanas that specifically stretch or strengthen each of the four quadrants of the spinal musculature appropriately.
• Learn to utilize rotational breathing to increase awareness and diminish spinal torsion.
• Learn how to prop yourself or your client to ensure greater ease when resting.

Please bring: Yoga mat, large towel or blanket, and comfortable clothes for movement. Personal water bottle (filtered water dispensers available on campus to refill).

Location: Bastyr University Kenmore Campus, room #146. Bastyr University is housed in an older facility with fluctuating interior temperatures; it is advisable to wear layers. Also, Bastyr is a “fragrance-free” campus.

Eligible for 5.5 CEUs, PDAs, and CMEs for the following professions:

ND (except those licensed in CA)
Eligibility Pending: ND (licensed in OR)
MD & PA – Category II CMEs (those licensed in WA)
ARNP & RN (licensed in WA)
Eligibility Pending: LAc – NCCAOM PDAs
LMP (licensed in WA)
Eligibility Pending – Reflexologist – ARCB CE
PT & OT (licensed in WA)
DC (licensed in WA)

Robin Rothenberg Certified Yoga Therapist

Robin Rothenberg is an internationally respected yoga therapist, and director of Essential Yoga Therapy, running an IAYT Accredited Yoga Therapist Training program and RYS-500. She has a private practice at Rehab Options of Issaquah, and teaches therapeutic yoga for those living with chronic pain and illness. She specializes in both structural issues and auto-immune conditions such as Parkinsons, MS, RA and fibromyalgia. Robin has extensive experience working with people with scoliosis and has offered many instructional trainings on this subject over the years.

Robin serves on the Accreditation Committee and Advisory Council for the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT). She has presented at SYTAR (Symposium for Yoga Therapy and Research) and at NAMA (National Ayurvedic & Medical Association). She has produced multiple webinars for Yoga U-Online on a variety of therapeutic conditions, and has frequently offered continuing education courses at Bastyr University. Robin is the author of The Essential Low Back Program: Relieve Pain & Restore Health, as well as two yoga nidra CDs and a chakra meditation DVD. To learn more about this instructor go to www.essentialyogatherapy.com