Adaptive Yoga Northwest
Please check out our website for more information about our classes: Adaptive Yoga Northwest
We were recently featured as part of a KUOW story about disability and aging: KUOW story
For some background information, please read this summary from my co-teacher, Cyndi Kershner, CYT, RYT after we completed our first class for the Harborview/UWMC SCI Transitions program: “I had just finished teaching my first six week series yoga class for students with new spinal cord injuries, and as the students wheel out of the class thanking my co-teacher Beth and I for the class, I remembered how difficult the road to starting this class had been. As I see the looks on their faces from having experienced yoga, I am sure that its all been worth it.
Beth Reite, OTR/L, and I met because of our mutual connection to Mind Body Solutions. Beth was familiar with Matthew's work as she specialized in serving people with Spinal Cord Injuries, and had also visited the Courage Center. Having worked in a trauma hospital for over eight years, she experienced from the clinician side of what Matthew explained in his book Waking -the lack of mind-body integration in rehabilitation for people living with spinal cord injuries. Beth also believed that yoga could help bridge the gap between the current rehab paradigm she had been working under, and the mind-body integration that could help her patients heal at a deeper level. Beth knew I taught adaptive yoga in Seattle, and so contacted me to see if I wanted to start an adaptive yoga class for her patients. We met, and after getting to know each other decided to work together in trying to start an adaptive class. It took two years to lay all the groundwork: securing a partnership with Harborview Medical Center, getting funding, securing the right space, and finding and training volunteers. We often encountered obstacles and had to be extremely patient in letting the program develop and grow at its own pace, and, once the momentum got going we were surprised at how quickly the pieces started falling into place. The first session of classes was a resounding success, and we have been hired to teach several more series during 2014.
This class was truly a community effort, and as a yoga teacher, creating a partnership with a highly skilled and dedicated clinician was the thing that made this endeavor get off the ground. We look forward to further developing this program, and to starting an offshoot community class that will serve both students that have finished the six-week series, and people with other types of mobility differences!”
~Cyndi Kershner, CYT, RYT May 2014 for the Mind Body Solutions Organization Newsletter
We were recently featured as part of a KUOW story about disability and aging: KUOW story
For some background information, please read this summary from my co-teacher, Cyndi Kershner, CYT, RYT after we completed our first class for the Harborview/UWMC SCI Transitions program: “I had just finished teaching my first six week series yoga class for students with new spinal cord injuries, and as the students wheel out of the class thanking my co-teacher Beth and I for the class, I remembered how difficult the road to starting this class had been. As I see the looks on their faces from having experienced yoga, I am sure that its all been worth it.
Beth Reite, OTR/L, and I met because of our mutual connection to Mind Body Solutions. Beth was familiar with Matthew's work as she specialized in serving people with Spinal Cord Injuries, and had also visited the Courage Center. Having worked in a trauma hospital for over eight years, she experienced from the clinician side of what Matthew explained in his book Waking -the lack of mind-body integration in rehabilitation for people living with spinal cord injuries. Beth also believed that yoga could help bridge the gap between the current rehab paradigm she had been working under, and the mind-body integration that could help her patients heal at a deeper level. Beth knew I taught adaptive yoga in Seattle, and so contacted me to see if I wanted to start an adaptive yoga class for her patients. We met, and after getting to know each other decided to work together in trying to start an adaptive class. It took two years to lay all the groundwork: securing a partnership with Harborview Medical Center, getting funding, securing the right space, and finding and training volunteers. We often encountered obstacles and had to be extremely patient in letting the program develop and grow at its own pace, and, once the momentum got going we were surprised at how quickly the pieces started falling into place. The first session of classes was a resounding success, and we have been hired to teach several more series during 2014.
This class was truly a community effort, and as a yoga teacher, creating a partnership with a highly skilled and dedicated clinician was the thing that made this endeavor get off the ground. We look forward to further developing this program, and to starting an offshoot community class that will serve both students that have finished the six-week series, and people with other types of mobility differences!”
~Cyndi Kershner, CYT, RYT May 2014 for the Mind Body Solutions Organization Newsletter
