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Harness the Power of Breathing

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Harness the Power of Breathing & Accelerate Therapeutic Gains

Breathing is the most basic and essential physiologic process… yet your standard examinations – focused on range of motion, posture, and balance – have completely overlooked this major player in overall health. With profound physiological effects on health and body mechanics, today’s evidence supports an integrative medicine approach that incorporates breathwork.

Watch Michelle Lindsey, DPT, PT, MBA, to learn all the tools you need to evaluate respiration and combine breathing with functional movement to improve outcomes in low back & neck pain, balance and coordination problems, poor endurance, pelvic floor issues, respiratory issues/long COVID and much more! Discover strategies you can use right away to:

  • Alleviate pain, reduce stress and tension
  • Improve posture, cognition, and performance
  • Increase body awareness & core activation

You’ll gain a clear understanding of the complex functional relationship between the muscles, joints, and fascial lines that enhances clinical decision making. The yogic breathing exercises taught in this course are applicable to a wide variety of patients, and adaptations for various stages of healing from injury and surgical procedures are covered in detail. Discover a systems model approach to treatment that produces lasting results, and learn hands-on, how to teach your clients anywhere, anytime exercises and body awareness skills that will keep them happy, healthy, and out of the clinic.

Here's What You'll Learn


Importance of Breath in Posture and Overall Function
  • Who are the best breathers?
  • Missing links in our standard assessment/ evaluations: breath and vision
  • Diaphragm & its relationship to the core
  • The Core= Our Powerhouse
  • Local vs. global muscles
  • Considerations for the role of connective tissue
  • The organ of posture and breath
  • Systems model approach-medicine today
    • Somatic psychology
    • Fascial connections
    • Acupuncture and acupressure
    • Understanding how this model works in therapy today
Utilize an Anatomical Systems Perspective to Evaluate the Core
  • Circulatory system
  • Respiratory system
  • Lymphatic system
  • Digestive system
  • Endocrine system
  • Nervous system
  • Musculoskeletal system
Systems Model Theory: Yogic Perspective on the Core
  • The limbs of yogic philosophy
  • Chakras and meridians- medical vs. yogic model
  • The navel center (the core) and how to find it
  • How all of the yogic parts are tools to connect the entire body
Body Awareness – The Core and its Connections
  • Examining how body parts connect through awareness and knowledge
  • The Power of the core if activated correctly
  • Healthy sitting
  • Musculoskeletal connections
  • Activation of the core/breath using sensory cues (the brain-body analogy)
Proper Ventilation for Disease Prevention
  • Understanding the biomechanics of the ventilation system
  • Lung volumes/capacities-spirometry
  • Conscious vs. unconscious breathing
  • Long deep breathing
  • Breath and vocalization
  • Nasal breathing
Experiential Lab: Becoming Aware of the Breath
  • Explore various breathing techniques to help with disease
    • Breath of fire
    • Cannon breath
    • Whistle breath
    • Sitali pranayama
    • Breath walk
    • One minute breath
  • Teaching clients to breath correctly- ovarian breath, birthday candles
  • Exercising- stretches, strengthening using the breath correctly (yogic postures)
  • How to use the breath in a meditation practice
Simple Solutions for Common Dysfunction
  • Back and neck pain
  • Balance and coordination problems
  • Poor endurance
  • Pelvic floor issues
  • Long COVID
  • Hypertonicity
  • Arthritis
  • Headaches
  • Scoliosis
  • TMJ
  • Asthma
  • Hyperventilation
Considerations for Working with Special Populations
  • Geriatrics
  • Special needs
  • Pregnancy
  • PTSD
  • Case study - David’s story

Everything You're Getting


  • More than 6 hours of content
  • Up to 6.0 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

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Michelle Lindsey, DPT, PT, MBA

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Michelle Lindsey, DPT, PT, MBA, has over 26 years of experience and is the owner of Rising Star Therapy Specialists, LLC, in Phoenix where she specializes in treating pediatric and adult special needs clients. Throughout her career, she has worked in various settings, including orthopedics, skilled nursing services, home health, outpatient, and acute care. Dr. Lindsey views her clients as unique individuals with varied skills and abilities. She inspires them to extend beyond their best efforts by providing a comfortable, compassionate, and respectful environment in which they thrive.

Her first book, The Wellness Equation, offers hands-on-postures and exercises that promote healing at the union of modern medicine and traditional yoga. The Metamorphic Gift: Easy, Simple Breathing and Postural Techniques to Transform Your Life; is a great book for self-healing that integrates the body with breathing and postural exercises, using understandable anatomy and physiology.

Dr. Lindsey is also Certified as a Personal Trainer (CPT), KRI Yoga Instructor, a Level 3 Reiki Practitioner, Dolphin Therapist, Fall Prevention Specialist, and Tai massage therapist. She also holds a dry needling certification. She has been a featured speaker in many large-scale conferences. Dr. Lindsey has won national recognition in many areas of fitness including figure skating, elite marathon running, duathlons, and professional speed skating.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Michelle Lindsey is the CEO of Rising Start Therapy Specialists, LLC. She receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Lindsey receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Michelle Lindsey has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Media Type:
DVD
Also Available:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
RNV065197
Duration:
6 hours, 6 minutes
Copyright:
Jun 16, 2023
Publisher:
PESI Inc.

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