Project Status: Completed

Last Updated: 15 September 2022

About this Project:

Yoga Therapy for Pain relief for Care givers – Lok Sin Tong

Caregivers can influence the life of elderly in many ways, including the self-care ability, engage in social interaction, and maintain good mental and physical health.

Family Caregiver Alliance studies show that between 40 to 70% of caregivers have clinically significant symptoms of depression, with approximately one quarter to one half of these caregivers meeting the diagnostic criteria for major depression and about one in ten (11%) caregivers report that caregiving has caused their physical health to get worse.

Reducing the burden of caregivers through Yoga therapies can help them be healthy and in turn care for elderly better.

Caregiver is physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausting. Practicing self-care through yoga and meditation can help relieve the stress and anxiety, improving flexibility, balance, pain relief, overall strength and well being.

A survey showed by Finances Online, the majority of respondents said that they agree or strongly agree that yoga had improved their physical health (88%) as well as mental health (86.2%). They also said that it had improved their stress levels (82.6%), their strength (87.1%), and flexibility (91.6%). Moreover, 69.3% of participants reported a change in lifestyle due to their yoga practice while 57.4% reported having better sleep.

Yoga releases feel-good endorphins into the body which facilitate a general sense of well-being, both beneficially to caregiver and elderly.

痛症治療瑜伽課程 – 看護員 （樂善堂）

看護員可以通過多種方式影響老年人的生活，包括他們的自理能力、社交活動以及如何保持良好的身心健康。

家庭照顧者聯盟的研究指出，40% 到 70% 的照顧者有臨床上顯著的抑鬱症狀，其中大約四分之一到二分之一的照顧者診斷為重度抑鬱症。

隨著老年人的功能狀態下降，看護者的抑鬱和負擔相對增加。 研究亦指出大約有十分之一 (11%) 的看護員報告說，因為工作關係導致他們的身體健康狀況逐漸變差。

透過瑜伽療法可以減輕看護員的心理，幫助他們保持健康，進而更好地照顧老年人。看護員在身體上、精神上和情感上都很疲憊。 通過瑜伽和冥想練習能夠緩解壓力和焦慮，提高靈活性、平衡性、緩解疼痛、整體力量和幸福感。

Finances Online 的一項調查顯示，大多數受訪者表示他們同意或非常同意瑜伽改善了他們的身體健康 (88%) 和心理健康 (86.2%)。 他們還表示，它改善了他們的壓力水平 (82.6%)、力量 (87.1%) 和靈活性 (91.6%)。 此外，69.3% 的參與者報告說，由於他們的瑜伽練習，生活方式發生了變化，而 57.4% 的參與者報告說有更好的睡眠。

瑜伽會釋放讓人感覺良好的快樂荷爾蒙到身體中，從而促進整體的幸福感。 對照顧者和老人都有益處。

Venue: G/F, Block 10 Tsuen King Garden, 76-84 Tsuen King Circuit, Tsuen Wan, N.T.

地點: 荃灣荃景圍76-84荃景花圍第十座地下

Class Schedule:

Date: 21 August 2021 (Saturday)

Time: 14:15 – 15:30 & 15:30 – 16:45

時間表:

日期: 8月21日 (星期六)

時間: 下午2:15 至3:30 及 下午3:30至4:45

Project Leader: Angela

項目負責人: Angela

Lok Sin Tong was established in 1880, currently operates more than 50 subsidiary units across the region to offer a wide spectrum of quality services, including the provision of education, medical care and social welfare service. Andiappan Yoga Community is now partnering with Lok Sin Tong to bring the benefits of you to the caregiver groups.

九龍樂善堂1880年正式成為一個慈善機構，服務為多元化，包括：醫療、教育及安老服務等，並積極支持及贊助各項社會公益及文娛教育等活動。現時轄屬機構共達五十多個，分佈遍及港九新界。Andiappan Yoga Community 正與樂善堂合作，將瑜伽的好處帶給一眾看護員。

Who can teach in this project: Andiappan Yoga Community Volunteer Teachers those who have completed a minimum of 200hrs Yoga Teacher Training Course with International Yoga Academy, Hong Kong can apply for this project.  Share the gift of yoga and help us in fulfilling AYC’s mission. Your enthusiasm and help are greatly appreciated.

有興趣申請為此計劃義教之AYC義工：已完成香港INTERNATIONAL YOGA ACADEMY 200 小時瑜伽教師培訓之ANDIAPPAN YOGA COMMUNITY義工可以申請為此計劃義教。一起分享瑜伽的恩賜，亦幫助我們實現AYC的使命。我們十分感激您的熱誠和幫助。

Are you interested to join this class as a student please follow the steps below to enrol for the class.

If you are a registered AYC volunteer you are eligible to assist / teach in this program, please follow these steps:

1. Log-in to the AYC website (yogacommunity.org)
2. Under “My Profile”, click “Ongoing Projects”
3. Find (Yoga Therapy for Pain relief for Caregivers – Lok Sin Tong) and select “I would like to apply”
4. Please wait for the admin to add you to the WhatsApp group before you start assisting / teaching

已登記為AYC義教者：您可以申請為本計劃教授瑜伽或協助教學。請完成以下步驟：

1. 登入AYC網站（yogacommunity.org）；
2. 點擊「My Profile」，然後選擇「Ongoing Projects」；
3. 找到「Yoga Therapy for Pain relief for Care givers – Lok Sin Tong」，然後選擇「I would like to apply」；
4. 開始教授瑜伽或協助教學之前，請等候職員將您加入相關Whatsapp群組。