YOGA IN HEALTHCARE
Curious about completing your yoga therapy certification? Hear what our grads and students have to say.
Experience a 30-minute session of Yoga Nidra that guides you into a deep state of relaxation and inner exploration. Prior to starting, I recommend assessing your current energetic state or identifying an outdated belief you wish to release. From this self-awareness, approach the process with self-compassion, ready to craft a fresh energy or belief. Formulate a positive and presently stated mantra or affirmation that resonates with your intention for change. This will serve as your focal point during the practice, empowering your journey towards a renewed perspective.
Yoga in Healthcare
Learn how the movement and meditation techniques of yoga can powerfully complement Western medical care. Practice evidence-based mindfulness meditations, Yoga Nidra, and breathing skills that can be incorporated into conventional treatment models for behavioral medicine and chronic disease management. Learn the applications of asana - the yoga poses - to alleviate pain and imbalance. Apply proven, peer coaching techniques to overcome client resistance in promoting healthy choices in health and wellness practices.
Course Dates: Oct 6th - 30th, 2024*
Tentative Schedule Below
10/5 Sunday Launch: 2 - 6 pm ET
Remaining Sundays: 11am- 6pm ET
Tuesdays: 6:30 - 8:30 pm ET
Fridays 6 - 8:30 pm ET
Saturdays: 11am - 4 pm ET
Integration Hours for enrolled YT Students: Nov. 9th 2-4p
*with additional listen anytime lectures, reading, journaling, study, observation, assisting, and practice teaching hours through November 12, 2023
* Additional live hours required for registered Yoga Therapy Certification students
In This Course You will Learn:
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Dr. Chris Walling, Somatic Psychologist, Yoga Therapist, and President of the United States Association of Body Psychotherapy, will present cutting-edge findings on how yoga, meditation, and breath techniques can support our holistic mental health. Key topics include:
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Chronic pain
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PTSD and trauma
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Creating and supporting safe spaces for trauma survivors
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Burnout / Stress Management
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Depression
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Anxiety
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Fundamentals of Contemporary Yoga Research
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Developing successful motivational coaching skills with your clients
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Meditation, breath, and Heart Rate Variability
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The personal, transformational journey of the yoga professional and more
Learn Yoga Nidra, postures and movement, mindfulness exercises, breathing exercises, and coaching techniques to address a broad array of conditions, including:-
PTSD and trauma
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Anxiety/Depression
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Stress management
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Heart disease and cancer prevention
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Chronic Pain
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Chronic Disease management
Dr. Loren Fishman, MD, and team will present evidence and yoga posture techniques to address:
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Shoulder Health & Yoga for the Rotator Cuff
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Hip Health & Piriformis Syndrome
Successful Completion of Course Equals the Following:
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- 100 hours towards Yoga Alliance 300 hour Yoga Teacher Certificate
May earn concurrently:
- 100 hours towards PYI's IAYT-accredited 850-hour Yoga Therapy Certificate Program (additional prerequisites apply) - please email [email protected] for an application
Investment/Tuition
FIRST TIME STUDENTS: $1,595.00
PYI TT Grads | $1,395.00
*EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: VALID THROUGH: FRI Sept 20th
**Use Code {Healthcare2024} at Checkout for $100 Off**
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Meet Our Expert Faculty
DANA SLAMP, C-IAYT, ERYT500 (FOUNDER, PROGRAM DIRECTOR)
Dana began teaching yoga in 2005, offering vinyasa classes known for their spirit, strength, and safety across New York City. She joined the senior staff at Pure Yoga in 2008, expanding her teaching to therapeutic classes, as well as teaching in Pure's renowned 200 hour Teacher Training and Professional Mentorship Program.
Despite her love of classes, Dana saw the great need for one-on-one, specialized therapeutic teaching in the tradition of "yoga chikitsa" - "yoga medicine." In 2010, she served as Managing Teacher at Pure West, and eventually cocreated the 300 hr advanced teacher training program at Yoga Vida. Dana completed over 1100 hours of yoga, Ayurveda, meditation, and yoga therapy training with Guru Dharam, Dana Flynn, Dr. Marc Halpern and Yogi Charu - becoming one of the first certified yoga therapists in the US.
In 2012, Dana founded Prema Yoga Institute, New York's premiere yoga therapy school. PYI offers a radical collaboration between wellness professionals devoted to yoga, bridging the gaps between yoga and healthcare and academia and yoga. PYI prepares wellness professionals to provide yoga and mindfulness to diverse populations - regardless of any injuries or limitations present. (Premayogainstitute.com)
She continues to teach internationally, contributes to countless teacher trainings, and has presented at the Telluride Yoga Festival, Wanderlust in the City, and several times at the Yoga Journal Conference. She has been honored to consult on research projects and wellness programs for clinics, doctor's offices, condominiums, and corporations. Dana is a member of IAYT and currently practices in New York City. (Danaslamp.com)
Dr. Chris Walling, PsyD, MBA, C-IAYT, SEP
is a licensed clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and researcher. Dr. Walling is an Adjunct Professor of Somatic Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies and is the Research Chair & Past-President of the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy. He is a Clinical Research Fellow at the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium located at Indiana University where he also serves on the International Advisory Council at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. Dr. Walling is the Vice President of Education & Outreach for the Alzheimer’s Research & Prevention Foundation and serves as Dean of Faculty at the Embodied Philosophy Institute. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the International Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Walling maintains a private practice in Los Angeles, California.
KAREN NOURIZADEH, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500 (MODERN MINDFULNESS, MEDITATION AND YOGA NIDRA)
Captivated by the science of stress in the mind and body, Karen presents a unique perspective, combining yoga philosophy, allopathic medicine, quantum physics, neuroscience and epigenetic to understand patterns around stress, the mind in the body and the various tools at our disposal to help regulate the body's inner systems. Karen’s chapter on stress management was published in Cutting Edge Therapies for Autism to help parents of children with autism manage stress. Karen's meditations can be found on Insight Timer; wellness blogs on Mind, Body, Green and Elephant Journal and her teachings featured in Fitness Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, The New York Daily News and more. Credentialed with an advanced meditation and yoga certification, E-RYT 500, Karen is a certified yoga therapist, credentials with I-AYT.
LOREN FISHMAN, MD
Dr. Fishman is Medical Director of Manhattan Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in New York City, author of seven books and author or editor of more than 70 academic articles, and a world-recognized pioneer in the treatment of piriformis syndrome and rotator cuff tear and an expert in curing back pain. He is Associate Editor of Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation, on the staff at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and a past president of the New York Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Dr. Fishman has written five books about yoga and medical conditions. They are: Relief Is In the Stretch: Cure Back Pain With Yoga ( with Carol Ardman, WW Norton, 2006), Yoga for Multiple Sclerosis (with Eric Small, Demos Press, 2007), Yoga for Osteoarthritis (with Ellen Saltonstall, WW Norton, 2008), Yoga for Osteoporosis (with Ellen Saltonstall, coming in March, 2010), and Healing Yoga (2015).
After graduating from Christ Church, Oxford, Dr. Fishman spent a year in Pune, Inda, studying Yoga with BKS Iyengar, attending every public and private class and taking daily instruction. At that time, Mr. Iyengar gave Dr. Fishman permission to teach his Yoga. Dr. Fishman then went to Rush Medical School, did a residency in a Tufts-Harvard program, and served as Chief Resident in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Throughout his career, when appropriate, he has incorporated Yoga into his medical practice and has watched its healing effects. He is also an enthusiastic practitioner himself and has been doing Yoga daily since 1973.
Dr. Fishman has been included in numerous “Best Doctors” lists and has lectured in the United States and abroad. He is an officer of the Manhattan Institute for Cancer Research, and lives with his wife in New York City.
"To his patients, Dr. Fishman is a miracle worker." – Jane Brody, NY Times
Loren Fishman is "... a Thomas Edison of yoga therapy." – William Broad, The Science of Yoga
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Disclaimers:
Please be advised that the content of this course is not to be used as a substitution for the opinions and services of your licensed healthcare professional. The use of yoga as an adjunct to wellness is intended to be an integrative supportive activity that fosters the innate healing potential of everyone, but is not a substitute for licensed medical care and is subject to the applicable governing laws of your State/Provence.
All forms of exercise including yoga are activities in which you the participant assume the risk of injury or harm as a result of your participation. As such, please ensure that you have obtained your doctor’s approval prior to engaging in this or any physical activity. You agree by virtue of participation in this training to hold harmless any and all of its speakers, participants, or hosts from any and all liability from harm should you incur any injuries, whether mental or physical, as a result of your participation in this course.
Any references to therapeutic yoga are not derived from our Registered Yoga School “RYS” status with Yoga Alliance. Our registration with Yoga Alliance does not provide a qualification in yoga therapy techniques.
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