Love Your Brain Yoga: A Recreation Therapy Approach

*This course has been pre-approved by OAHPERD for 5 clock hours.

This course will allow the CTRS to learn about the history of Love Your Brain Yoga and how to develop and facilitate this interdisciplinary program. The clinician will have the opportunity to review the etiology of adults with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), explore how the individual is impacted functionally and learn how to implement Love your Brain, a neurological rehabilitation yoga program within your facility. The CTRS will learn about implications of practice and planning considerations as well as modifications for varied level of practice. At the completion of this course, participants will need to pass an exam with a minimum score of 80%. Participants must complete the course within 365 days of starting the course to receive a completion certificate.
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Course Objectives

  • Students will gain knowledge about the basics of TBI, the history of Love Your Brain Yoga and Interdisciplinary approaches to use in counseling techniques.

  • Students will be able to identify benefits of love your brain yoga practice throughout the domain areas. 

  • Students will be able to identify the steps for incorporating love your brain yoga into your facility. 

  • Students will be able to identify the roles each discipline can partake in. 

  • Students ill learn about the appropriate assessment/outcome scale and how to apply and document it based on patient skills levels.

  • Students will learn how to adapt yoga practice toward different levels of ability and how to facilitate groups based on those ability areas within an interdisciplinary setting.

Eryn Friedman Sinclair, MA, CTRS

Instructor Bio:

I graduated in 2000 with a bachelor’s of science degree in Therapeutic Recreation and Leisure Services from Ithaca College obtaining my CTRS , completed my Master’s Degree in school counseling from Seton Hall University in 2010, and recently completed my certification as a Certified Brain Injury Specialist. Currently I teach at Kean University in the Recreation Therapy Department and for past 16 years have worked at the Johnson Rehabilitation Institute at their Center for Head Injuries. I have experience providing therapeutic recreation services for adults with mild to severe brain injuries and stroke in the acute care and subacute rehabilitation settings.

Eryn Friedman Sinclair, MA, CTRS

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