Subtle® Yoga for Behavioral Health Intensive: Anxiety and Depression

Description

Yoga offers a holistically-oriented, cost-effective approach that complements current treatment strategies for mental health and substance use disorders. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, a Duke University researcher who conducted a systematic review of yoga for neuropsychiatric disorders concluded, "The search for improved treatments, including non-drug based, to meet the holistic needs of patients is of paramount importance. If the promise of yoga on mental health was found in a drug, it would be the best-selling medication worldwide."

In this module, participants will learn basic Subtle® Yoga practices (including breathing, postures, and meditation) which they can share with clients to assist in mitigating depression and anxiety. Participants will be able to identify the rationale for using holistic approaches, while learning effective Subtle® Yoga techniques to use in individual or group settings. Two hours of this module will be spent on the ethical frameworks of yoga including mindfulness, reflection on the use of one's inner self in clinical practice, interpersonal communication, and decision making. The yoga model of ethics will be compared and contrasted with various mental health professional codes of ethics.

Subtle® Yoga courses are a unique offering of holistically oriented, mind-body behavioral healthcare. You are welcome to take any Subtle® Yoga modules on an individual basis (as multiple or solo trainings) or in any order, except for the Subtle® Yoga Teacher Training for Behavioral Health Professionals: Teaching Yoga to Individuals and Groups (RYT200), which begins Spring of 2025. If you would like to attend this training, you must fulfill pre-requisites 1-4 (listed below) before attending #5 (also below), which is the full teacher training. The combined hours of the trainings listed below may qualify participants to apply for registration with the Yoga Alliance as a 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT), an accrediting organization independent of MAHEC and Subtle Yoga, should they choose to do so after completing all MAHEC courses.

If choosing to register "in-person," MAHEC offers limited on-site seating on Thursdays and Fridays, while all weekend sessions run via livestream, with direct connection to instructors.

1. Any one of the following One-Day Introductions:
(a) February 16, 2024 - Subtle® Yoga for Trauma Recovery: A One-Day Introduction
(b) March 15, 2024 - Subtle® Yoga for Chronic Pain: A One-Day Introduction
(c) April 12, 2024 - Subtle® Yoga for Positive Mental Health: Brief Interventions

2. September 12-13, 2024 - Applying Subtle® Yoga in Clinical Practice (you may substitute 2 of the above one-day trainings for this two-day requirement)

3. October 17-19, 2024 - Subtle® Yoga for Behavioral Health Intensive: Anxiety and Depression

4. November 7-9, 2024 - Subtle® Yoga for Behavioral Health Intensive: Trauma, Addiction, and Recovery

5. February 20-23, 2025 / March 13-16, 2025 / April 10-13, 2025 / May 15-18, 2025 - Subtle® Yoga Teacher Training Certification for Behavioral Health Professionals: Teaching Yoga to Individuals and Groups (Four, 4-day Trainings with 102.0 Hours and 4.0 Ethics Hours)

Subtle® Yoga is an exceptionally adaptable, person-centered approach to yoga practice that may be tailored to meet the needs of clients with differing abilities. It fosters the development of attention 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, "The Body Keeps the Score"

This event includes 3.25 ethics hours (does not apply to NC Psychology credit).

Register here for all the workshops in the 2024/2025 season, including the Teacher Training, at a discounted rate!
$ 3,300.00 if paid in full by September 12, 2024

To learn more about and/or register for individual Subtle® Yoga Series trainings in the series click here.

By registering for this conference, you are granting permission for your contact information to be shared with Subtle® Yoga staff.

Target Audience

Mental health professionals including substance abuse counselors, social workers, psychologists, counselors, marriage and family therapists, school counselors, and other professionals interested in this subject

Objectives

At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Integrate and demonstrate postures, breathing and meditation which may be used as individual and group interventions to help mitigate symptoms of depression and anxiety.
• Describe the yoga ethics framework and its significance in relationship to behavioral health professional ethics and practice.
• List and explain basic tenets of a yoga-informed biopsychosocial spiritual model, which utilizes effective yoga practices to mitigate symptoms of depression and anxiety.

Faculty

• Brett Sculthorp, LCSW, LCAS, CPS
• Kristine Kaoverii T. Weber, MA, c-IAYT, eRYT500