NOI Bodily Learning Education

Course Description

• Bodily relearning is an all-new course offering by Noigroup based on and supported by the upcoming book (by the same name) by author, educator, and physical therapist, Benjamin Boyd.  In this interactive course, we will explore how to help those in pain gain insight, knowledge, and understanding about how bodily protection systems operate and how to regain some control over these protection responses, including pain.  We will investigate the use of movement exploration and reflection to help reset bodily protection responses.  Additionally, we will explore other concurrent strategies, such as targeted neurodynamic exercises and mindfulness practices, to help reset the bodily protection levels and increase engagement in meaningful life activities.  With the skills emphasized in this course, we aim to drive bodily relearning by facilitating bioplastic adaptations to reset bodily protection responses towards less protection, less pain, and more freedom of movement. 

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will have:

• Evaluated healthy notions of pain for use as therapeutic narratives with people suffering from pain.

• Applied appropriate metaphors, narratives, and experiential tools to explore the underlying neuroimmune mechanisms behind a pain experience.

• Examined the sensitivity of the neuroimmune system.

• Identified physical stress management strategies to positively impact the neuroimmune system.

• Evaluated ways to integrate neurodynamic-based movement exploration treatments with other elements of clinical care.

• Developed appropriate progressions and regressions for neurodynamic-based movement exploration treatment recommendations.

• Explored the use of mindfulness practices to help reteach our bodily protection responses associated with pain. 

CEUs: 14.25 credits