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

Description

Yoga is currently being incorporated in the Veterans Administration's treatment protocols for PTSD and complex trauma. It is also being employed as an adjunctive therapy in addiction treatment and recovery centers across the United States. In this 3-day training, participants will explore the intersection of Subtle® Yoga and addiction and trauma recovery and learn Subtle® Yoga techniques to encourage resilience, self-regulation, self-soothing and healing for the nervous system and brain. Participants will also learn the principles of trauma informed yoga and how to integrate Subtle® Yoga into individual and group sessions to help clients learn to take effective action, to tolerate and shift unwanted feelings in the body, and to experience the body as a friend and ally in the healing process.

The application of yoga techniques to assist in managing chronic pain and the role of spirituality in healing will also be explored. Participants will be introduced to a yoga-informed biopsychosocial-spiritual model that addresses treatment as well as recovery, prevention and health promotion. Review of ethical standards for behavioral health providers and yoga practitioners will help to identify alignment and areas where further exploration is needed.

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 sole trainings) or in any order, except for the Subtle® Yoga Teacher Training Certification for Behavioral Health Professionals: Teaching Yoga to Individuals and Groups (RYT200) which begins in Winter/Spring of 2025. 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 apply for registration with the Yoga Alliance as a 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT).

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. Feb. 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 approach to yoga practice which is person centered and can be tailored to clients with differing abilities. It fosters the development of attention and mindfulness, and promotes spiritual development in the context of any belief system. Please wear comfortable clothes to move in and dress in layers. You are welcome to bring a yoga mat.

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

By registering, participants understand that their information may be shared with Subtle® Yoga.

"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"

Group Registrations

Registering 5 or more participants with one payment? Please use the paper registration form at the end of the PDF brochure. Send completed paper registrations for the full group to the Registration Team at MAHEC.
Fax: 828.257.4768 | Email: MAHEC Registration

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:

• Articulate the advantages of using Subtle Yoga in recovery with clients recovering from trauma and addiction
• Integrate postures, breathing, and meditation practices in group and individual interventions to assist clients
• Discuss the importance of spirituality as it relates to healing and identify approaches for integrating clients' spirituality into practice
• Describe the basic tenets of a yoga-based, biopsychosocial-spiritual model and how it may provide a framework for prevention and health promotion in the context of addiction

Faculty

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