FREE Web cast on Yoga and the Mind Body Connection for People with Disabilities
RRTC...@gmail.com
Cord Injury (RRTC on SCI) for a Web cast on Yoga and the Mind Body
Connection for People with Disabilities. The RRTC on SCI is a program
of the National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH) in collaboration with
ILRU.
Matthew Sanford, MA, founder and president of Mind Body Solutions will
share his experience with Iyengar yoga and talk about his current work
teaching an adaptive class for people living with disabilities on
Wednesday, June 4th at 3:30 pm Central.
Matthew is a pioneer in adaptive yoga for persons living with
disabilities and has been teaching a weekly adaptive yoga class at the
Courage Center in Golden Valley, Minnesota since 1998. He has
received several awards for his work, including a Volvo For Life
National Hero award this past March--viewable at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpmbzAwL5ws
.
Matthew was also recently featured on NBC's Today Show and has
published a memoir that chronicles his journey in understanding the
mind body connection.
As part of the continued focus on knowledge and prevention of
secondary conditions associated with SCI, Matthew Sanford will discuss
his work in adaptive yoga, and how the mind body connection applies to
everyone. The webcast will be moderated by Lex Frieden, Director of
ILRU and professor of Health
Informatics and Rehabilitation at the University of Texas (Houston,
TX). Join us to learn more about Yoga and the mind body connection.
To access this Webcast and download accompanying materials please
visit: http://ilru.org/html/training/webcasts/calendar.html .
For instructions on how to access this webcast visit:
http://ilru.org/html/training/webcasts/instructions.html .
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is configured/updated to participate in this webcast. For technical
assistance with ILRU captioned webcasts, please check out our FAQs
(frequently asked questions) at: http://www.ilru.org/html/training/webcasts/FAQ.html
. You may contact a Web cast team member via email at web...@ilru.org
or by calling 713.520.0232 (v/tty).
This Web cast is supported through the National Rehabilitation
Hospital (NRH) Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Spinal
Cord Injury (RRTC on SCI) and ILRU. The RRTC on SCI is a five-year
project federally funded/supported by the National Institute on
Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), a division of the
United States Department of Education.
The opinions and views expressed are those of the presenters and no
endorsement by the funding agency should be inferred.
We hope to see you on Wednesday, June 4th, 20