Principles of Yoga Therapy
Nursing CEU Eligible: Details coming soon.
Yoga Alliance RYT's and E-RYT's: This course will offer continuing education credit. Details coming soon.
6 days
- Mar 14 – 20, 2012
- Jun 10 – 16, 2012
Prerequisite: Ananda Yoga Teacher Training or Bridge to Ananda Yoga (Part 1) or Yoga Teacher Renewal.
This in-depth 6-day program is the first module of Ananda’s Yoga Therapist Training. It will give you many practical foundational skills necessary for a safe and effective yoga therapy practice. You will also gain an understanding of the foundations of yoga therapy, which come from the ancient sciences of Yoga and Ayurveda.
In this course you will:
- Gain practical client assessment skills (including structural and functional assessment, basic Ayurvedic constitution assessment)
- Learn how to take a client history
- Learn to create, document, and evaluate individualized therapeutic plans
- Deepen your understanding of anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology
- Learn how to design individualized yoga therapy regimes
- Discover how Yoga and Ayurveda work together to promote well-being of body, mind, and spirit.
- Deepen your understanding of the breadth of Yoga teachings (asanas, meditation, pranayama, diet, yoga philosophy, and more), and how they can be used to help a client therapeutically
- Explore Energy Healing: how to send healing energy to others; the roles of prayer and intention; the power of the mind; the use of affirmations, visualizations, and mantra
- Explore important issues in conducting the business of yoga therapy
In addition, you will learn how to communicate with health care professionals: how to generate and interpret referral information. You’ll explore how to establish therapeutic relationships with your clients: how to set clear boundaries; what are professional and ethical boundaries; listening and communication skills.
In short, by the end of the week, you will have been given the basic skills for creating your own yoga therapy practice. We hope you will take advantage of this rich opportunity!
This program is the foundation for all of our other yoga therapy programs. It is a prerequisite for the Musculoskeletal Yoga Therapy course.
Your instructors are Nayaswami Mangala, Nayaswami Maitri, Barbara Bingham and Dr. Shanti Rubenstone
Yoga Therapist Training
Led by Nayaswami Mangala
Prices are all-inclusive and cover accommodations, meals, classes or activities, and course materials.
Principles of Yoga Therapy starts the afternoon of the first date listed and ends with lunch on the last date. Please see our Daily Schedule.
See Transportation and Directions whether you are coming by plane, car, bus or train. Our Frequent Questions page answers many of the questions you might have about How to Go on Retreat.
To Register:
Register Online, call 1-800-346-5350 or e-mail us.
Costs (TXP)
- Mar 14 – 20, 2012
- Jun 10 – 16, 2012
| Tent / RV |
Standard Shared |
Standard Private |
Deluxe Shared |
Deluxe Private |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $714 | $894 | $1254 | $1134 | $1614 |
Yoga Alliance RYT’s and E-RYT’s receive a 10% discount on the total cost for Principles of Yoga Therapy. To receive the discount, simply tell us your Yoga Alliance registry ID number (it’s on your RYT/E-RYT card) when you register.
