Y4A Spring Newsletter, 2023 Welcome to the Y4A community and thank you for subscribing to Y4A Yoga for Amputees! Welcome to our first newsletter! We’ll be sending newsletters periodically so that you can stay up to date on the latest Y4A news, offerings, and resources. |
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Y4A will be at the Amputee Coalition Conference this Summer! |
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The Amputee Coalition holds an annual national conference for amputees to learn more about current information and research affecting amputees, meet with prosthetists and others supporting amputees, and attend clinics designed to help amputees experience adaptive physical sports and activities. Y4A Yoga for Amputees has been a part of this annual conference for many years, beginning with Marsha Danzig, founder of Y4A Yoga for Amputees, leading the morning Yoga Clinics for several years, and Lucy teaching last year’s Yoga Clinics. |
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This year the conference will be in Orlando, FL, and Heather will be teaching the morning Yoga Clinics and adding two additional evening classes for movement and relaxation. If you are attending the conference, be sure to sign up for morning clinics, evening yoga classes, or both. Y4A is grateful to be able to continue collaborating with the Amputee Coalition to teach yoga at its conferences. Y4A also donates a portion of every Y4A training to the Amputee Coalition to support its work assisting those with limb loss, limb difference, or limb limitation. |
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Heather Thamer will be offering a 2½ hour hybrid (simultaneous in-studio and live streaming) workshop, “Teaching Yoga for Limb Loss, Limb Difference or Limb Limitation.” through the Yoga Center of Columbia, MD, on July 29, 2023, from 1-3:30pm, cost $35. In this workshop, types of amputations and prostheses will be discussed, as well as supportive breathing practices. Specific poses will be adapted for both lower limb and upper limb loss, difference, or limitation. The workshop will be appropriate for yoga teachers and yoga therapists, medical professionals and therapists who support amputees, e.g., physical therapists, occupational therapists, and recreational therapists, and amputees with at least 3 months experience doing yoga. The workshop will count as continuing education for yoga teachers registered with Yoga Alliance. Registration will be open after June 16th at the Yoga Center of Columbia, MD. |
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Coming this Fall: Next Y4A Teacher Training! |
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The next comprehensive online eight-week Y4A teacher training will run from October 12- December 7, 2023. This teacher training will be appropriate for yoga teachers, yoga therapists, and professionals working with those with limb loss, limb difference, or limb limitation. Carrying on the Y4A training program developed by founder Marsha Danzig, Lucy and Heather led the first online Y4A Teacher Training this past winter. That training included an experienced group of yoga teachers, prosthetists, and physiotherapists from the US and as far away as Canada, Spain, and Australia. Look for them to be teaching Y4A classes in your area soon! Although registration is not yet open for the Fall 2023 training, below is a link to the course description. Also, Y4A is grateful to the Yoga Alliance Foundation for setting up our scholarship fund so that assistance is available for those who might need it. |
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Spring is a time for renewal and rejuvenation. |
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Include this breathing break from founder of Y4A Yoga for Amputees, Marsha, into your day to relieve stress and refresh your prana, (vitality): |
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COMING SOON…Y4A T-shirts For Sale and Ways to Donate to Y4A |
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Some of you have expressed the desire to support the work of Y4A, and we are working on a way to make it easy to donate. For now, spreading the word is invaluable…please share the website www.yogaforamputees.com on your favorite social media platform, and tell your friends, family members, colleagues, doctors, dentists, mail carriers, etc. about Y4A. The more people who know about the Y4A programs and teachers who are offering adaptive yoga, the more we can bring the life-affirming benefits of adaptable, accessible, welcoming yoga to the world! |
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If you are living with, or working with someone living with limb loss, limb difference or limb limitation, we would love to hear from you. If you’ve been doing yoga, breathing exercises, meditation, other healing practices that have supported you on your journey can you describe what your healing practice means to you? Would you send us a photo of you doing your favorite yoga pose or practice? And let us know if we might share your story on the Y4A website or in a future newsletter. Please reply to this email with any stories, comments, or photos you’d like to share. Thank you for being a part of this amazing community. With love, Lucy & Heather |
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The mission of Y4A Yoga for Amputees is to provide health, wellness, freedom of movement, psychological healing, spiritual renewal and a deep sense of wholeness to people who have experienced limb loss. |
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