Today's guest is Matt Erb, Integrative Physical Therapist and Yoga Therapist. Matt has worked extensively with persons experiencing acute and chronic health conditions using an integrative (holistic/whole-person, and mind-body integrated) model of care. He works with all forms of chronic pain, migraines, headache, craniofacial and spinal disorders, dizziness, and vertigo (vestibular conditions), chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia and many more.

Matt and Amy talk about Yoga therapy as an emerging and an established field in healthcare. They speak about “How does Yoga Therapy fit within the healthcare system?” “How can Yoga Therapy not shapeshift and lose the essence of the wisdom tradition?” “How can we put all the separated parts of the human being back into wholeness, so that we are no longer splitting the whole person into different parts?” “What are the upstream factors that carry more influence than individual lifestyle choices on health?” “How do we support a balanced view of agency and causality and support individuals to do their best within the prevailing conditions that they are experiencing?”

They discuss the following:

·        Matt’s work as an Integrative Physical Therapist and Yoga Therapist

·        Matt’s amazing book called “Integrative Rehabilitation Practice”

·        The push and pull between Indigenous Traditions and Evidence Based Medicine

·        Social determinants of health and sociological considerations for the profession

·        How Yoga Therapists can avoid implying excessive or unrealistic sense of moral agency in an individualistic model of self-care

·        Privilege of receiving healing modalities and social connection with support

·        Indigenous communities basic understanding of the important of community in healing

·        Ways in which neoliberalism, capitalism, and colonialism show up in integrative health, including Yoga Therapy

·        The Power-Threat-Meaning Model and similarities to Yoga Philosophy

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