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Yoga Therapy Applications Within the Mental-Health Field 800-Hour Professional Yoga Therapist Program, Module 5
- Presenter: Joseph Le Page
For students who have completed Integrative Yoga Therapy Foundations of Yoga Therapy: Module 1. Scholarship eligible.
Explore yoga therapy’s applications in the mental-health field. Each day focuses on a different facet of mental health, including depression, anxiety, trauma, PTSD, addiction recovery, and yoga in social work settings. Delivered by leaders in the field, each presentation outlines
- How yoga can be used to support treatment
- Specific applications that are most helpful
- Contraindications.
Enjoy daily morning asana classes that center on one of the conditions being covered that day. Joseph Le Page, founder and director of Integrative Yoga Therapy, presents a detailed protocol for one condition highlighted that day, and leads a practice based on that protocol. Participants also learn yoga nidra and meditation techniques appropriate for each mental-health condition.
Required Reading
- Robert Sapolsky Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers.
Recommended Reading
- Frances Vaughan, Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing through Spiritual Illusions
- Swami Rama et al, Yoga and Psychotherapy
- Amy Weintraub, Yoga for Depression
- Bo Forbes, Yoga for Emotional Balance
- Mary NurrieStearns, Yoga for Emotional Trauma
- Richard Miller, The iRest Program for Healing PTSD
Teaching Format and Contact Hours
This course is a one-week residential program, fulfilling 65 contact hours. Classes are held daily, beginning at 6:00 am and ending at 8:30 pm. These hours can be applied to the 800-hour Professional Yoga Therapist Training Program accredited by the International Association of Yoga Therapists.
Program at a Glance
Presenter(s)
Joseph Le Page, founder and director of Integrative Yoga Therapy (IYT), has trained more than 3,000 teachers and therapists.
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