MISTY 2024 - Maintaining and Restoring the Knee Joint

Overview

In the therapeutic context of the functional approach, the knee joint cannot be viewed as isolated. Its integration into the entire status of our body in movement and posture should always be taken into account.

Yoga Asana and the transitions of movement are especially suitable for this. Not only because they invite us to engage in greater mindfulness and introspection of our own experiences, but also because we can understand and listen better and use our breath powerfully for healing.

Even at a purely physical level, we can look at how we can achieve the goal of maintaining or restoring pain-free mobility and a stable knee joint.
To do this, we didactically divide the way forward into various smaller steps, to practice them practically and to understand them intellectually through the discussion. According to experience, this increases intrinsic motivation both for ourselves and our students.

Learning Objectives

In this online course, you will:

1. Learn practical tools to work with knee issues/pain.
2. Obtain much food for thought on how knee pain/issues manifest and how to view them.
   

Presenters Bios

Günter Niessen, Orthopaedic Surgeon, PhD, PT, C-IAYT, YACEP

Günter is a specialist in orthopaedics and trauma surgery, a qualified physiotherapist and yoga teacher with over three decades of experience in many forms of physical therapy and bodywork. Since starting his career in the mid-80s, he has treated tens of thousands of patients with both surgical and conservative methods.

Over time, his focus has increasingly shifted from conventional medical therapy to the application of gentle and holistic healing methods. In 2008 he opened his outpatient clinic for yoga therapy and orthopedic medicine in Berlin and founded a yoga therapy program, which is now merging into the extended training of Momentum Regeneration® working together with Katharina Lehman during the last five years. He is an ayurvedic therapist and certified yoga therapist, according to the criteria of the International Association for Yoga Therapy C-IAYT. momentum-regeneration.com.

Katharina Lehman, Mental Health Professional, E-RYT,YACEP

Katharina is a non-medical practitioner, for psychotherapy, art teacher and founder of Momentum Regeneration®.

She has taught yoga and yoga therapy internationally in group and individual sessions for over a decade and works in the 300 h yoga therapy training and her private practice. She demonstrates ways to integrate loving self-inquiry and inner balance through yoga into everyday life as part of one's self-care. Her heartfelt wish and passion is to accompany her clients on their paths to healing body, mind and soul. Katharina does this with a compassionate presence and a deep understanding of traumatic structures. momentum-regeneration.com.

Audience

This course is for anyone who has knee issues or works with those who do, either as a physiotherapist, yoga professional or other type of bodyworker.