YOGA FOR SLEEP AND SLEEP DISORDERS

ONLINE WEBINAR (Zoom)

Prof. Sat Bir S. Khalsa
Date: 20 Nov 2024  •  19:00 - 21:00 UK time (7 - 9 pm)

CPD hours: 2  •  cost: £45

STUDENT FEE: £20.00 • USE DISCOUNT CODE "student"

There is an increasing recognition and knowledge about the value of sleep in both physiology, psychology and human performance. There is emerging evidence of the negative impact of restricting one’s duration of night-time sleep, which is an increasing trend in modern society. Furthermore, there is also an increasing burden and prevalence of sleep disturbances and disorders, including sleep apnea and especially both acute and chronic insomnia.

Chronic insomnia is believed to be strongly influenced by stress and arousal. Behavioral treatments for insomnia have been well-validated and there is strong research evidence demonstrating the high effectiveness of yoga for alleviating stress and arousal. However, these approaches, which are free of the side effects and other complications with sleeping pills, are not well known and poorly implemented.

This workshop will describe the characteristics and importance of sleep to mental and physical health and performance, the underlying characteristics of sleep disorders, especially of insomnia, and will overview the well-known behavioral treatments for insomnia, and the research demonstrating the efficacy of yoga for sleep quality and sleep disorders.

Prof. Sat Bir S. Khalsa is Director of Research for the Kundalini Research Institute, Research Associate at the Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, Research Affiliate at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He has conducted research on yoga since 2001 and has been a practitioner of Kundalini Yoga since 1971 and is a certified teacher.
His research has evaluated yoga for insomnia, stress, trauma, and anxiety, and for workplace and public school settings. He works with the International Association of Yoga Therapists as scientific director for the annual Symposium on Yoga Research and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Yoga Therapy. He is the medical editor of the Harvard Medical School Special Report Introduction to Yoga, and chief editor of the medical textbook The Principles and Practice of Yoga in Health Care.

The course will provide for OSTEOPATHIC PRACTICE STANDARDS CPD requirements in the following areas:

2 hours Learning with Others

OPS CPD Requirements
Learning include
Communication and patient partnership
Listening, respecting patient's concerns and preferences, dignity and modesty, effective communication, providing information, consent, patient partnership.
Knowledge, skills and performance
Having sufficient knowledge and skills, working within training and competence, keeping up to date, analysing and reflecting on information to enhance patient care.
Safety and quality in practice
Patient evaluation, management, safeguarding, wider role in enhancing patients' health and wellbeing.