Prema Yoga Institute offers a unique yoga training program for mental health professionals, empowering them to create integrative treatment plans for their patients. If you’re a psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, or mental health counselor who often suggests positive physical activities and mindfulness techniques to your patients, complete our comprehensive yoga training so you can better incorporate yoga into therapy plans.

Yoga Therapy Training for Mental Health Professionals

The Mental Health Practitioners Track

Prema Yoga Institute offers a unique yoga training program for mental health professionals, empowering them to create integrative treatment plans for their patients. If you’re a psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, or mental health counselor who often suggests positive physical activities and mindfulness techniques to your patients, complete our comprehensive yoga training so you can better incorporate yoga into therapy plans.

Benefits of Yoga Therapy in Psychological Settings

Why would mental health professionals want yoga training? The American Psychological Association (APA) and the National Institute of Health (NIH) support adding yoga to therapy plans for children, adolescents, adults, and older adults. Yoga therapy offers many benefits in a psychological setting, including:

• Improved stress management
• Reduced anxiety and depression
• Improved management of some forms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Stronger social attachments
• Insomnia relief

Because yoga offers many styles, a mental health professional can tailor the activity to the patient’s age and mobility. An option like yin yoga suits application to the mobility-impaired since a therapist can create a series of asanas that use floor positions. Yoga Nidra, mindfulness, pranayama, and meditation are all interventions that can be integrated into a healthcare setting. Other options include seated asanas or a combination of the two types.

While mental health professionals can recommend yoga to their patients without taking a single yoga class, if counselors or psychologists want to design the treatment program themselves, they need yoga therapy training. Since mental health professionals do not regularly receive somatic techniques training in medical school, Prema Yoga Institute offers yoga training for psychologists, psychiatrists, and mental health counselors. Complete our program Hybrid - or with limited in-person hours in New York City. Either way, you’ll earn certification as a yoga teacher and therapist. If you’re not already a certified yoga instructor, start with our yoga teacher training.

Yoga Techniques in a Comprehensive Care Plan

Psychologists who want to use an approach to integrative wellness may find yoga helpful. In the past two decades, the medical and mental health communities have discovered that the mindfulness and breathing techniques used in yoga can benefit the rehabilitative treatment of patients who have experienced stroke, traumatic brain injury, scoliosis, depression, anxiety, PTSD, and many other conditions. Some practitioners integrate it into alcohol and drug addiction recovery.

By learning to teach yoga and integrating it into therapy, you can help your patients choose the yoga that best benefits their situation while accommodating their mobility and health situation. Begin today with our yoga certification online - or with optional live hours in New York City.

Integrating Yoga with Medical Treatments

Many oncology programs have successfully integrated yoga into treating cancer patients, but that’s far from the only area of medicine putting yoga to use. Physical therapists leverage the benefits of yoga for their patients recovering from a range of physical injuries. For example, because yin yoga targets fascia and ligaments, physical therapists can use it to help those recovering from ligament injuries. People experiencing paralysis can practice some styles of yoga because yoga consists of more than poses. Practicing yoga can also help improve balance, digestion, and back health.

Our signature Mental Health Practitioners Track features a practicum in psychological well-being with Dr. Chris Walling and the ability for healthcare professionals to transfer in up to 155 hours of study. Our program includes anatomy courses, philosophy, and therapeutic electives. After successfully completing our yoga training, psychiatrists, psychologists, and mental health counselors can integrate mindful breathing and postures called asanas into a patient’s therapy.

Enroll Today for Yoga Therapy Certification with an Emphasis on Psychological Well-Being!

Complete the yoga training for mental health therapists accredited by the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) to learn the techniques needed to help your patients through yoga. Learn from experienced faculty, including clinical psychologist Dr. Chris Walling, also an associate professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Register today for the yoga therapy course for healthcare professionals at Prema Yoga Institute. If you don’t already have a yoga teaching certificate, we’ll help you start with that yoga training. By presenting your medical practitioner’s license and college transcripts, you can transfer credits for anatomy, mental health therapy, and philosophy courses.

Prema Yoga Institute offers specialized yoga therapy training for mental health professionals. Gain valuable tools to integrate yoga practices into therapeutic settings. Join our program today!