APPLIED MINDFULNESS for PTs - AMP
Mindfulness with a Biomechanical Edge to Expand Your Orthopedic Outcomes
Get all the classroom CEus required (24) in one mind-blowing, body-calming, life-expanding weekend.
Leave with tools to apply Mindfulness in your life and in the clinic Monday morning. Including on-line support programs.
The critical Research
Mindfulness literature has grown exponentially over the last 55 years beginning with a single article cited in 1966 to over 16,000 today. Journal articles address the physiological affects of mindfulness interventions on a myriad of pathologies: low back pain, inflammaging, depression, anxiety, stress, Chrone’s disease and even cancer. Mindfulness interventions have been shown to increase physical function, sleep quality, life satisfaction, well-being and vitality. In addition it has been instrumental reducing pain-overidentification, kinesiophobia and catastrophization. Mindfulness has also been shown to increase self-acceptance and self-compassions - two areas that are relevant to healing acute and chronic pain.
We’ve culled through significant articles gleaning the key concepts and drivers for what works in the clinic. You’ll learn how to add a biomechanical reagent that pivots the common place attentional tool of breath awareness often used in Mindfulness training to rewiring movement patterns that restore ease with functional movement.
The Personal Experience
You can’t take someone somewhere you haven’t been. If you have your own ortho issues or burn-out onset, you’ll come away refreshed with a new perspective and movement portfolio. Your self-healing will inform how you reach your patient’s brain and body.
The Easy application
You’ll master beginning “apps” to use with your patients Monday morning. This modality deserves a life-time of study, but you will be able to employ elementary concepts that make significant changes to a patient’s awareness and unconscious choices that limit their progress and recovery. In addition, your patients will gain access to our 5 week on-line program for FREE. This program will allow you to reinforces your own learing and supports your teaching basic tools needed for this reconceptualization of pain.
Leave with personal and professional tools to apply Mindfulness in the clinic Monday morning including an on-line support program you and your patients can access.
Develop effective precision skills to apply Mindfulness for upgrading orthopedic outcomes - unlike any you’ve experienced.
Learn the biological substrates of what undergirds the wide-spectrum effectives of mindfulness.
mindfulness so Identify the difference between the neural pathways modulations of mindfulness, will-power and placebo.
Understand how present-centered awareness leads to meta-awareness, non-reactivity and dereification to shift nervous system dysregulation.
Use Mindfulness to address catastrophizing, rumination, depression and anxiety that curbs healing.
Remap your neural pathways for more ease and greater capacity with a personal mindfulness movement practice of novel, surprising motor patterning.
COURSE DATES
February 26 - March 1, 2026 Thousand Oaks, CA
June 17-21, 2026 Ukiah, CA
August 10-17, 2026. Big Sur, CA This course is extended to enjoy the beauty of Esalen Institute.
Melissa Krikorian Leah Dwin
For the Esalen Institute session (8/10 - 8/17), register with Esalen Institute directly. Registration will be open soon.