Ginger Garner

MPT, ATC

Healing through the Universal Language of Healing Arts
Music, Movement, & Meditation

WOMEN'S HEALTH

Modern Medical Yoga for Women

Dedicated to Empowering American Women since 1992, through the healing arts.

We need change in health care for women in America, and we need it now. Health care in America needs a Woman and Mother-Centered approach. American mothers and women are in great need of holistic, patient centered care, rather than disease care focused around drugs and diagnostic testing.

Our current approach in health care is not working - it has awarded the US with the highest infant and maternal mortality rate of all industrialized nations, and has left more women in poverty and suffering from chronic diseases than men.(1) Read more about women's health crisis in America

Ginger's popular women's health blog, Breathing In This Life, plays a large role in educating mothers about how to take charge of their bodies and their birth. It empowers women to tap their inner lamb and lion - with sound wellness advice from experts in the field.

Ginger has written, spoken, featured in, or been quoted in or by many organizations, publications, and media outlets including:

People magazine online
PT Advance
OT Advance
Lower Extremity Review
The National Athletic Trainers’ Association
IDEA Fit
National Association of Mothers’ Centers
Yoga Therapy In Practice
The International Journal of Yoga Therapy
The popular blogs Midwife for your Life, SheKnows, Ageless Pilates, and Your (Wo)man in Washington®, and Circle+Bloom Fertility, Breezy Mama
USA Today and other news prints
The Holistic Health Show with Dr. Carl Helves
Carolina News 14 television
(Spring 2011) Her new women's health column for Yang Sheng magazine
(Fall 2011) Pathways magazine for parenting.

Ginger's Methods
Ginger reaches women and mothers through:

Her writing
Her popular blog, Breathing In This Life
Her new women's health column for Yang-Sheng magazine
Teaching seminars and speaking to groups on medical yoga and women's health topics
Interviews for print, radio, and television
Consulting

Ginger assist partner

Ayurvedic Lifestyle Counseling
...meal planning, aromatherapy, constitution analysis, sound therapy, and yoga.
Evidence based Pilates
…therapeutic routine for low back strengthening and postural realignment
Environmental Analysis
...an evaluation of your office or home using Feng Shui & Ayurvedic elemental analysis
Physical Therapy
...flexibility, strength, endurance, manual therapies & deep tissue work, exercise, pain management, injury prevention education, workplace or home office ergonomic analysis
Pranayama (breathing)
...increase lung capacity, decrease pain, increase energy levels, decrease blood pressure and heart rate, improve quality of life, and clean bronchial airways, including address asthma and allergies
Music & Movement
...learn about use of sound and music in movement therapy & meditation
...learn about the voice as a therapeutic tool, protecting and developing it for maximum effectiveness
...learn about vocal toning for meditation and vocal development
Meditation & Breathing (for real people)
Therapeutic Yoga
...for managing aches and pains in the most gentle way possible, through passive movements
...therapeutic alignment & meditation in the 15 point PYT method
Stress & Time Management
Athletic Training
Yoga Massage & Partner Yoga
...everyone's favorite, combine the relaxing effects of massage with the healing benefits of PYT
Women's Health Therapies
... incontinence, organ prolapse, prenatal and postpartum, childbirth through yoga, and post-surgical issues.
Weight Management

BOOKING

Source
1. US Dept. of Health and Human Services 2006. Women’s Health USA 2007 report.

Adjusting student
Ginger teaching medical CE

Ginger teaching yoga to young Afghan women

AVAILABLE NOW - ANCIENT YOGA, NEW YOU DVD

Shot in 2004 on location in Emerald Isle, NC. A program for pain management based on Ginger's 18 month study on women with fibromyalgia and back pain
published in 2004 in International Journal of Yoga Therapy. It was released in 2005 to positive reviews.
Purchase at Amazon

BOOKING GINGER - Ginger is available for:

Consulting
Speaking
Medical Yoga Seminars
Writing contributing articles on women's health
Interviews

Publications

October 2011 - Yang Sheng magazine: Women's Empowerment in an Age of Illness, part two
September 2011 - Yang Sheng magazine: Women's Empowerment in an Age of Illness, part one
June 2011 - Yang Sheng magazine: Adrenal Burnout: What Women Need to Know
May 2011 - Yang Sheng magazine: A Yogic Breath Practice for Women
April 19, 2011 - Ginger's interview with BreezyMama.com gets a nod from People Magazine. Body after birth: Explaining those aches and pains — BreezyMama.com. Read on at People.com
April 2011 - The Anti-Inflammatory LIfestyle: A Fountain of Youth? Yang-Sheng April 16, 2011 issue.
April 2011 - Ginger joins Yang Sheng magazine as a new columnist, writing about holistic women's health issues. Watch for her upcoming article in the May issue on Anti-Inflammatory Living: A How to Guide.
March 25, 2011 - Ginger's latest article is published in Lower Extremity Review. Read Biomechanical Precepts Define 21st Century Yoga. LEW March 2011 Vol. 3/No. 3.
February 27, 2011 - Your (Wo)man in Washington® features Ginger on a 2-part series guest post: Women's Empowerment in An Age Of Illness

February 26, 2011 - Ginger's Professional Yoga Therapy Manuals are set to be re-released in an updated format, containing new information and a user friendly format. These texts, at present, will be available for purchase as part of attendance in the CE program.

The 4 new textbooks will bear new names:Professional Yoga Therapy, Volume I, Professional Yoga Therapy, Volume II, Professional Yoga Therapy, Volume III, and Professional Yoga Therapy, Volume IV.

September 28, 2010 - New DVD Released: Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Using Evidence Based Yoga To Evaluate and Treat the Athlete.
February 25, 2010 - The Great Legacy: Ginger's guest blog for Midwifery and women's health is published for Midwife for Your Life, Stacey Curnow.
February 12, 2010 - How I Manage Work/Life Balance: Ginger guest blogs for National Association of Mothers' Centers based in Washington D.C. and founded by Pulitzer Prize nominee Ann Crittenden.
February 4, 2010 - Ginger guest blogs for Circle+Bloom on Adrenal Burnout & Fertility is published.

Ginger's New Blog Launched with great success. www.gingergarner.blogspot.com. Join the Breathing In This Life community of mothers and women as Ginger writes on ways for moms and women to stay their fittest and strongest!
Ginger's Blog has prompted responses to other concerns about yoga, motherhood, and practice:
Yoga Journal response about parenting (8th response on page)
Midwifery Today Response about the Fear of Birth in America (scroll down to question of the week to read the response)
Ginger working on her book about mothering. Stay tuned for excitement about the upcoming book! See more information about Ginger's Childbirth Educator CE course

February 14, 2009 release date and now available for purchase Yoga In America edited by Deborah Bernstein & Bob Weisenberg Ginger's latest writing published in Yoga In America, the story of yoga in America told by 46 ardent yoga teachers and therapists.
Ginger finishes the fourth and fifth editions for PYT II and PYT I, and second editions for PYT III and IV are completed in time for the 2009 academic year.
Ginger completes edits for a more comprehensive manual for the previous Spine course entitled, Dialogues in Spinal and Lumbopelvic Yoga Therapy, to be reintroduced as a new course in 2009.
Ginger completes edits for the newly expanded coursework for the Childbirth Educator in Yoga Therapy course, to now expand into a week long Certificate in prenatal, labor coaching, and postpartum yoga therapy.
2007 Garner, Ginger. International Journal of Yoga Therapy; The Future of Yoga Therapy and the Role of Standardization. November 2007 Volume 17
Ginger completes the course text, Yoga Therapy for the Spine.
2006 Kelly McGonigal quotes Ginger in IDEA Fitness Journal June 2006 Issue - on her expertise in chronic pain management with yoga therapy - Read the IdeaFit article on chronic pain by Kelly McGonigal quoting Ginger
2005 A Best Seller in Yoga DVD’s on Amazon.com Ancient Yoga, New You Yoga Therapy DVD for pain management is on the BEST SELLER list on amazon.com.
2004 November Garner, Ginger(formerly Wood) MPT, E-RYT, ATC The International Journal of Yoga Therapy; Yoga Therapy and Chronic Pain Management - Telling Our Story,
Ginger's first two texts in yoga therapy were published and used for educating over 300 licensed health care professionals in a 3 year time frame.