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Renew PT Classes and Workshops
Check below for booked
upcoming events. Towards the bottom of the page you can see summaries
of the FABULOUS workshops offered by Renew Physical Therapy
Upcoming Schedule of Events
Check the schedule for a great workshop
near you.
| March 10, 2010 - Birthday Presence Pelvic Rehab Workshop |
Join Renew PT's Isa Herrera
for this great workshop where she will share her trade secrets
with you and talk about her GREAT new book Ending Female
Pain, A Woman's Manual.
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Wednesday
March 10, 2010
at Birthday Presence
291 8th Street
Brooklyn NY
7:00-8:00pm - Cost - FREE
Pre-Natal
and Post-Partum Secrets of Your Pelvic Floor Muscles
This unique class focuses on
the most important muscles in the female body. Groups or individual
lessons available.
Highlights:
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Learn pelvic floor muscle
awareness and relaxation for an easier birth
- Confused about kegels? Understand how to perform
them correctly
- Hands on strategies to prevent urinary leaking
- Simple to implement tools to avoid pelvic floor
muscle strain and injury
- Get your body back the way it was with safe abdominal
training
- Breeze through your Post-Partum recovery with
exercises for the immediate Post-Partum period (Days 0-15)
CALL 917-751-6579 TO REGISTER
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| March 26, 2010 - The Pregnant New Yorker Workshop! in Manhattan |
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Saturday
March 26, 2010
@ Yummy Tummy
1201 Lexington Avenue
(btwn 81st and 82nd)
6:30 - 9:30PM - Cost - $15, $20 at the door
An Aternative Health Event:
How to have an Easy, Healthy Pregnancy
Get easy, economical ways to green your home in preparation for a baby. Learn what a doula is and what a baby planner can do for you. How chiropractic, physical therapy, and massage can help you through your pregnancy. How to safely use the core and push more efficiently during labor. See how a postpartum doula will be your savior once the baby arrives and how to reverse abdominal separation (the cause of post-pregnancy "pooch"). Plus come see some great products on everything baby and mommy.
REGISTER
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| Guest Speakers
Doula - Nicole Heidbreder www.gracefulfusion.com
Prenatal Massage Therapist - Janet Markovits, LMT www.maternalmassageandmore.com
Physical Therapist - Isa Herrera, MSPT, CSCS www.renew-pt.com
Pre- and Postnatal Fitness Specialist - Leah Keller, MA, CPT www.expecttobefit.com
Chiropractor - Dr Randi Jaffee www.drrandijaffe.com
Wellness & Green Educator- Hillary Helmling and Jen Morriswww.shaklee.net/hillaryhelmling
Baby Planner - Ana Anselmo www.nycbabyplanner.com
Postpartum Doula - Sara Newman - www.disfordoula.com
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April 2010 - Cesarean Scar Care in the Post-Partum Period
CEU's Available For Healthcare Professionals |
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International Cesaraen Awareness Network Hosts Isa Herrera for a Unique Online Webinar
Online webinar at ICAN-online.org
Date: April 2010, Date TBD
Time: TBD
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Presented by physical therapist Isa Herrera, MSPT, CSCS, Clinical Director of Renew Physical Therapy in NYC, this great online session will teach and guide you through the basics of cesarean scar care in the post-partum period.
This much-needed class is geared toward new moms and healthcare professionals alike who are looking to understand and implement some real-world techniques to get relief from pain, itching, burning, tingling… and also learn how to restore the abdominal muscles and posture so that you feel like yourself again.
Much of the great material to be included in this webinar is taken from Isa’s new book, Ending Female Pain, A Woman’s Manual. The book has been endorsed by filmmakers Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, Dr. Jacques Moritz, and most recently by Jill Osborne of the IC-Network and NY Times best-selling author and gynecologist Dr. Christiane Northrup.
Highlights of this webinar include:
- Understand how to locate scar adhesions and why they are so important to eliminate
- Learn mobilization and massage techniques for cesareans
- Restore abdominal function after cesarean with safe abdominal exercises
- Learn the connection between Diastasis Recti and low back pain and pelvic pain
- Learn simple yoga stretches for indirect scar mobilization during the early post-partum period
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General Course Descriptions
See below for summaries of the empowering workshops taught by Renew
Physical Therapy.
| Sex and
the New Mom |
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Things not the same "down
there" since your baby arrived? Come and learn
how to improve your vaginal tone and make your muscles stronger
for a return to better orgasms.
Highlights:
- Vaginal weights and smart balls
explained
- Pelvic floor self-care
- Strategies for getting back that
"loving feeling"
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| TENS Unit
Pain Reduction For Natural Childbirth |
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If you are looking to have
a natural, un-medicated childbirth, the TENS unit class is
mandatory for your success. Did you know that in places like
Europe, the TENS unit is commonly used for labor and delivery?
This class will debunk the myths and realities of this terrific
but under-utlized labor technology. Bring your partner to
this class, 60 minutes in length. Can be taught in group or
individual settings.
Highlights:
- Proper pad placement
- Setting up your unit
- Partner involvement
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| Yoga Flow Pelvic Opening Wokshop |
Come, discover and experience
more space, freedom and peace in your body and regain an overall
sense of well being.
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4
class workshop
At Renew Physical
Therapy
149 Madison Avenue @ 32nd Street
Pelvic Pain R.E.L.I.E.F.
Yoga Workshop
Release
your pelvic/hip pain.
Enjoy painless
walking and sitting.
Let go of tension
in your body and relax your mind.
Improve the
strength and flexibility of your hip & lower back muscles.
Enhance pain
free positional changes.
Feel like your
old fantastic self again.
Contact
us about the next
yoga series
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Instructor for the Yoga Workshops:
Cindy Degas teaches this amazing
workshop, tailored for men and women suffering from pelvic
pain or infertility. Cindy found relief with physical therapy
here at Renew PT, and is a certified instructor who used
yoga to facilitate her own healing process after undergoing
myomectomy surgery.
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| Pre-Natal
and Post-Partum Secrets of Your Pelvic Floor Muscles
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This unique class focus on
the most important muscles in the female body. Groups or individual
lessons available.
Highlights:
-
Learn pelvic floor muscle
awareness and relaxation for an easier birth
- Confused about kegels? Understand how to perform
them correctly
- Hands on strategies to prevent urinary leaking
- Simple to implement tools to avoid pelvic floor
muscle strain and injury
- Get your body back the way it was with safe abdominal
training
- Breeze through your Post-Partum recovery with
exercises for the immediate Post-Partum period (Days 0-15)
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