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Pain Care Yoga for Persistent Neck Pain

Week One Calendar
Week One: Change Your Pain Education
Quick Neck Reset
Movement Guidelines
Recovery Expectation
Breath Awareness
Body Scan

Week Two Calendar
Week Two: Pain Science
Pranayama: Longer Softer Smoother
Week Two Practice: Shoulder Rotation and Somatic Harmony
Somatic Lesson: Shoulder Rotation
Meditation: Free Floating Awareness

Week Three Calendar
Pain Education: Week Three
Week Three Practice: Pelvic Clock for the Neck
Pranayama: Extended Exhale
Somatic Lesson: Pelvic Clock
Gunas Meditation

Week Four Calendar
Week Four Pain Education: The role of the Brain
Yin + Somatics: Pelvis to Eyes
Pranayama: Seesaw breath
Meditation: Stillness and Non-Judging
Somatic Lesson: Arm Arc
Cat Cow Drill
Down Dog

Week Five Calendar
Week Five pain Education - What no one ever told you about pain
The Neuroscience of Pain
A Simple Exercise for When You Encounter Pain
Week Five Practice: Thoracic Strength
Expand Your Breathing Options
Somatic Lesson: Rotation and Flexion
Meditation: Dhyana

Week Six Calendar
Week Six Pain Education - Sending good news to the nervous systems
Week Six Practice: Integrated Flexion
Somatic Lesson: Improving Flexion
Thought Viruses
Mindfulness Based Interoceptive Exposure
Pranayama: 3 Part Breath

Week Seven
Week Seven - Pain Care Planning
Week Seven Practice - Thoracic Integration
Pranayama: Nadi Shodana
Somatic Lesson: Thoracic Integration

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