{"id":3671,"date":"2023-02-02T15:41:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T15:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unityphysio.co.uk\/?page_id=3671"},"modified":"2024-01-23T11:59:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T11:59:28","slug":"ahealingpath","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/unityphysio.co.uk\/services\/ahealingpath\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating A Healing Path Workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
These online workshops offer a compassionate integrative approach for managing and changing pain, fatigue & anxiety, nurturing wellbeing and supporting healing. \u00a0The workshops are suitable for people with any <\/span>condition\u00a0associated with pain\/fatigue\/anxiety, including chronic\/persistent pain, fatigue, ME\/CFS, long covid, PoTS, anxiety and chronic stress. \u00a0Persistent\u00a0<\/span>pain is part of many conditions, including: fibromyalgia, low back pain, headaches, migraines, neck pain, osteoarthritis, and perimenopause\/menopause. \u00a0Fatigue is also part of many conditions including fibromyalgia, perimenopause\/menopause, ME\/CFS, PoTS, long covid and neurological conditions. \u00a0<\/p> There are some questions that can help guide if the workshops might be for you (if you answer yes to one or more the workshops may be helpful for you):<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Creating A Healing Path is an 8 week online workshop series for people with any condition associated with persistent pain\/fatigue\/anxiety. \u00a0 As with everything Ann offers the workshops rest on the firm foundation of compassion and they are trauma-informed (as with all of Ann’s offerings). \u00a0They combine knowledge and skills from physiotherapy, compassion & compassionate mind training (part of compassion focused therapy), trauma-informed yoga, embodiment\/somatics, NLP, coaching, and acceptance and commitment therapy. \u00a0<\/p> Each workshop is 2 hours (with a short break) and is a combination of theory, discussion\/reflections and experiential practices. \u00a0The experiential practices are a mix of breath practices, meditations, gentle yoga\/gentle movement practices, embodiment\/somatic practices, compassion, and reflections.\u00a0<\/span><\/p> Each of the 8 workshops has a theme, for example nervous system regulation, connecting to trust in the body, and connecting to freedom and ease in the body. \u00a0Some things, like compassion, nervous system <\/span>regulation & somatics\/embodiment\u00a0are weaved throughout the whole workshop series. \u00a0The final workshop brings everything together, where you can create your own individualised healing path framework. \u00a0<\/span><\/p> T<\/span>he workshops are taught by Ann Parkinson who is a neurological & pain specialist physiotherapist, and <\/span>integrative somatic practitioner, with\u00a0many years of clinical experience. \u00a0She also has lived experience of pain, fatigue & anxiety \u00a0(the latter two due to ME\/CFS & PoTS) so she understands things from a personal perspective too. \u00a0Ann has over 13 years experience of working in the specialist area of persistent pain and over 15 years of working in neurology, she transferred the latter to working with people with ME\/CFS, long covid and PoTS <\/span>about\u00a03 years ago. \u00a0 She also has many years of somatic & coaching experience and has often <\/span>worked\u00a0with people with chronic stress and anxiety. \u00a0She is a qualified yoga teacher and is APPI pilates trained and used to run physio-pilates classes that integrated yoga. \u00a0Ann has integrated yoga \u00a0into all of her work for many years, has had a daily yoga practice for over 13 years and daily compassion practice for around 6 years. \u00a0You can find out more about Ann, including some of the courses she has completed, by clicking the button below.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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