This week is a back-to-school one for me - and boy, oh boy, am I ever feeling it! My brain feels rusty, and is struggling to stretch in these new different ways; plus the amount of information is totally overwhelming. 

 

Truth be told, I am a bit intimidated to be studying with the top experts in the field of pain and performance. Add to that the majority of trainees are physiotherapists, occupational therapists, sports psychologists and such. 

I feel like a fish outta water, what with my yoga lingo and love for incense.

Good thing I practice mindfulness, so I can watch my mental peregrinations.

 

This particular training - my third one with the Neuro Orthopaedic Institute Australasia, or Noigroup for short - focuses on applying principles of neuroscience to the field of athletic performance.

 

I think of it as the next step in my own understanding pain evolution.

Where the previous courses I've attended concentrated almost entirely on coping and managing pain - in other words on surviving - this new course, Less Pain Better Performance, is all about growing and thriving.

 

I am sure I will talk and write much more about what I've learned once the training is complete and I had some time to digest it, but I want to leave you with the following thought - it is certainly not a new idea, but it feels valuable enough to come back to.

 

A new  - and exciting - trend in the field of elite athletic performance is to add a pain neuroscience educator to the team of coaches, physiotherapists, and sport psychologists that take care of the athletes. The benefits include significant reduction in the number of injuries, and also speedier recovery when and if the injuries actually occur.

 

If this science-inclusive trend can help elite athletes, perhaps it can also help us, regular folk - weekend warriors, hockey moms, grocery carriers, room vacuumers, window washers, christmas tree decorators - people struggling with pain on the daily basis.

, what do you think?

 

I better get back to my homework now.

More information about each class and workshop coming next week - please let me know if you have any class or workshop-related questions!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day: Saturday, December 17

Time: 11 AM - 12:30 PM, 90 minutes

Place: OnLine

Cost: 37$ / 31$ + GST before November 18 (that's this Friday!)
 

 

 

January - April Yoga Classes:
 

Yoga classes will run in two sessions

as usual, register for one or both sessions (and save a bit more $$).

 

 

 

Day: Wednesdays

Time: 6:00 - 7:15 pm, 75 minutes.

Place: The Pilates Barre - Downtown Grande Prairie
Cost: One session 231$ / 216$ + GST before November 30 

Two sessions 393$ + GST (that's 196$ per session!)