Pain, Presence & Practice:
Yoga Therapy Meets Modern Pain Science
SYTAR IAYT 2025
Thank you for attending our discussion at SYTAR 2025!
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We hope that you picked up a few pieces of information that will help you help others living with pain.
The following is not an exhaustive list of references that Amber Kyliuk talked about. If you are looking for more information that Melissa Shah or Olena Bakai discussed, please see the discussion handout or use the links to their websites below.
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Click on the button below for the .pdf from our discussion.
Old vs. New View of Pain
This image is from the NOI Group and their latest book: Resolve Back Pain Handbook.
*with permission
This book is LOADED with amazing, evidence based information.
BUT! It isn't enough to see this as the brain or nervous system having an issue, you need to understand how this happened. Unknowingly a process that was trying to protect the person but somewhere along the way it got out of hand.
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Interested in the book?
Use the code: STYAR25PPP at checkout for $10 discount.
A Few Back Pain Facts
The Linking Force
Pain Reprocessing Therapy, the basis of the book: The Way Out by Alan Gordon & Alon Ziv brought the 2 main modalities of my teaching together on a psychological level with somatic tracking.
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Giving a structure, and more information, to how I was incorporating teaching mind-body work and building a calm level of interoception while living with pain.
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Listen to an article I wrote about PRT.
Example of
Critical Movement Yoga Therapy
Somatic Tracking for Pain
The Big Picture of Pain
Input was taken for the 26th Annual Meeting of the North American Spine Society (2017).
This is the metamodel of the factors that contribute to low back pain & disability.
Reach Out to Olena & Melissa
Olena Bakai
Olena spoke about migraines.
Please visit her website or reach out to her through her email for more information.
Melissa Shah
Melissa spoke about the subtle approaches to pain via yoga and ayurvedic
frameworks.
Please visit her website or reach out to her through her email for more information.
Pain Literacy Training!
Are you a health professional that works with clients living with persistent, chronic pain?
Join Amber for the upcoming training to start learning about the current research in pain science and how to integrate it when working with clients, one on one or in a group setting.
This 6 hr training is good for 6 PDCs with Alberta Kinesiology Association, and 5 CECs with AFLCA.
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Next training now open!
October 1st, 8th, & 15th. Live online! 6:30-8:30pm MDT
$315
Interested in blending yoga therapy, movement rehab, and pain science into your practice more?
I am working on a Level 2 training that will blend more work with with black strap, felt pad, and natural movement rehab, all along with more pain science!