Subtle® Yoga Teacher Training for Behavioral Health Professionals: Teaching Yoga to Individuals and Groups

Description

The Subtle®Yoga Teacher Training 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 and 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.

For registration of the teacher training only, the EARLYBIRD Deadline is 12/1/2022.

"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."

- Timothy McCall, MD
Author of Yoga as Medicine

The Teacher Training includes four, 4-day trainings with 102.0 Hours, including 4.0 Ethics Hours (16 days total).

September 7-10, 2023
Day 1 - Check-in 10:00am, Program 10:30am - 05:15pm
Day 2 - Check-in 08:00am, Program 08:30am - 05:30pm
Day 3 - Check-in 08:00am, Program 08:30am - 05:30pm
Day 4 - Check-in 08:00am, Program 08:30am - 03:00pm

October 26-29, 2023
Day 1 - Check-in 10:00am, Program 10:30am - 05:15pm
Day 2 - Check-in 08:00am, Program 08:30am - 05:30pm
Day 3 - Check-in 08:00am, Program 08:30am - 05:30pm
Day 4 - Check-in 08:00am, Program 08:30am - 03:00pm

November 16-19, 2023
Day 1 - Check-in 10:00am, Program 10:30am - 05:15pm
Day 2 - Check-in 08:00am, Program 08:30am - 05:30pm
Day 3 - Check-in 08:00am, Program 08:30am - 05:30pm
Day 4 - Check-in 08:00am, Program 08:30am - 03:00pm

December 14-17, 2023
Day 1 - Check-in 10:00am, Program 10:30am - 05:15pm
Day 2 - Check-in 08:00am, Program 08:30am - 05:30pm
Day 3 - Check-in 08:00am, Program 08:30am - 05:30pm
Day 4 - Check-in 08:00am, Program 08:30am - 03:00pm

Please note: In the case of inclement weather, trainings will run as scheduled on the livestream platform, registrants for in-person class will be included.

Participant contact information may be shared with Subtle Yoga staff.

Prerequisites

If you would like to attend this training, you must fulfill 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).

Should participants choose to do so, an added perk to completing this full series, including all modules, is that it may offer participants sufficient combined hours to apply to the Yoga Alliance as a 200 hour Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT200). Please note that the Yoga Alliance is non-clinical, completely independent and separate from MAHEC, Subtle Yoga, or any of MAHEC's clinical accrediting bodies.

1. Any one of the following one-day Introductions:

1. Subtle® Yoga for Trauma Recovery: A One-Day Introduction | October 28, 2022
   
2. Subtle® Yoga for Chronic Pain: A One-Day Introduction | November 11, 2022
   
3. Subtle® Yoga for Positive Mental Health: Brief Interventions | December 2, 2022

2. Applying Subtle® Yoga in Clinical Practice

February 9-10, 2023

(You may substitute 2 of the above one-day trainings for this two-day requirement)

3. Subtle® Yoga for Behavioral Health Intensive: Anxiety and Depression

March 9-11, 2023

4. Subtle® Yoga for Behavioral Health Intensive: Trauma, Addiction and Recovery

April 14-16, 2023

5. Subtle® Yoga Teacher Training for Behavioral Health Professionals: Teaching Yoga to Individuals and Groups

September 7-10, 2023 | October 26-29, 2023 | November 16-19, 2023 | December 14-17, 2023

Four, 4-day trainings with 102.0 Hours, including 4.0 Ethics Hours(does not apply to NC Psychology credit) (16 days total)

Subtle® Yoga Series

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.

"It's interesting that right now there are about six to ten million people in America who practice yoga… They've discovered that there's something they can do to regulate their internal systems." - Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score

More about the individual trainings in the series coming soon!

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. The 16-day Teacher Training is designed for clinically licensed professionals who work in the area of mental health. This may include psychiatric nurses, psychiatric nurse practitioners or psychiatrists.

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-5-TV 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