19MH004 - Subtle® Yoga Teacher Training Certification for Behavioral Health Professionals: Teaching Yoga to Individuals and Groups

Description

"From a yogic perspective, there is a connection between your posture and your mood…with sustained practice you can shift your emotional baseline toward greater levels of happiness." – Dr. Timothy McCall, Yoga as Medicine

The Subtle®Yoga Teacher Training Certification for Behavioral Health Professionals focuses on learning how to practice and guide clients through yoga breathing, postures, and meditation practices which can benefit mental health and emotional well-being. Participants will learn to teach safe, effective, accessible yoga practices to individuals and groups with a focus on sharing yoga with clients in behavioral health settings. Participants will be introduced to the basics of postures including alignment, anatomy and physiology, and learn how to adapt practices for an office setting.

The theory behind sequencing guidelines, which can affect behavioral health, will be presented. Participants will have the opportunity to practice teaching specific sequences for anxiety, depression, trauma recovery, addiction recovery, and chronic lower back pain – some of these sequences will be offered as "mat" classes, and some as "chair" classes. Particular emphasis will be placed on theory and practices which can create top-down/bottom-up integrated self-regulation as well as those which facilitate neuroplasticity and neurogenesis.

Participants will also explore Carl Jung's interpretation of yoga psychology through his analysis of the "subtle body" or chakra system. Reference to yoga paradigms which inform about self-awareness, learning, communication styles, and ethical engagement will also be introduced.

A special price of $3,300 includes all Workshops in the 2018 / 2019 season, as well as the Teacher Training, however, it must be paid in full by 2/7/18.

For registration of the teacher training only, the EARLYBIRD Deadline is 12/31/18.

If you would like to attend this training, you must fulfil the pre-requisites listed as 1, 2, 3 and 4 below, before attending #5, which is the full teacher training. The combined hours of the trainings listed below will qualify participants to register with the Yoga Alliance as a 200 hour Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT).

1. Any one of the following one day Introductions:
(a) 02/08/18 Subtle Yoga for Trauma Recovery: A One Day Introduction
(b) 03/08/18 Subtle Yoga for Chronic Pain
(c) 04/25/18 Subtle Yoga for Positive Mental Health: Brief Interventions

2. 09/07-08, 2018 Applying Subtle Yoga in Clinical Practice (you may substitute 2 of the above one-day trainings for this two-day requirement)

3. 10/11-13, 2018 Subtle Yoga for Behavioral Health Intensive: Anxiety and Depression

4. 11/01-03, 2018 Subtle Yoga for Behavioral Health Intensive: Trauma, Addiction and Recovery

5. 02/07-10/19, 03/14-17/19, 04/11-14/19, and 05/30-06/2/19 Subtle Yoga Teacher Training Certification for Behavioral Health Professionals: Teaching Yoga to Individuals and Groups

Subtle Yoga is an exceptionally adaptable, person-centered approach to yoga practice which may be tailored to meet the needs of clients with differing abilities. It fosters the development of attention and mindfulness, and promotes spiritual development in the context of any belief system. Please dress in layers and wear comfortable clothing in which you may freely move. You are welcome to bring a yoga mat.

The Teacher Training includes four, 4-day trainings with 102.0 Hours, including 4.0 Ethics Hours

February 7-10, 2019
Day 1 - Check-in 10:00am, Program 10:30am - 05:15pm
Day 2 - Check-in 08:00am, Program 08:30am - 05:15pm
Day 3 - Check-in 08:00am, Program 08:30am - 05:15pm
Day 4 - Check-in 08:00am, Program 08:30am - 03:15pm

March 14-17, 2019
Day 1 - Check-in 10:00am, Program 10:30am - 05:15pm
Day 2 - Check-in 08:00am, Program 08:30am - 05:15pm
Day 3 - Check-in 08:00am, Program 08:30am - 05:15pm
Day 4 - Check-in 08:00am, Program 08:30am - 03:15pm

April 11-14, 2019
Day 1 - Check-in 10:00am, Program 10:30am - 05:15pm
Day 2 - Check-in 08:00am, Program 08:30am - 05:15pm
Day 3 - Check-in 08:00am, Program 08:30am - 05:15pm
Day 4 - Check-in 08:00am, Program 08:30am - 03:15pm

May 30, 2019 to June 2, 2019
Day 1 - Check-in 10:00am, Program 10:30am - 05:15pm
Day 2 - Check-in 08:00am, Program 08:30am - 05:15pm
Day 3 - Check-in 08:00am, Program 08:30am - 05:15pm
Day 4 - Check-in 08:00am, Program 08:30am - 03:15pm

Target Audience

The target audience will consist of mental health professionals including substance abuse counselors, social workers, psychologists, counselors, marriage and family therapists, school counselors and other professionals interested in this subject who have completed the prerequisite courses.

Objectives

• Describe key ethical principles which must be applied in clinical practice when teaching yoga postures to clients in mental health practice to reduce symptoms of common DSM V diagnoses, while consciously preventing harm
• Demonstrate correct application of a wide variety of yoga postures, in alignment with basic foundations of gross and subtle anatomy and physiology, which may be safely and effectively applied with clients in a clinical mental health practice
• Articulate and demonstrate the significance of subtle anatomy for optimal health in recovery, based on parallels between Eastern and Western evidence-based medical practice
• Demonstrate explicit ability to guide clients through safe, trauma-informed yogic interventions, as observed and validated by a Subtle Yoga clinical course instructor

Faculty

• Ashley Lester, LISW-CP, RYT500
• Kristine Kaoverii T. Weber, MA, c-IAYT, eRYT500