Yoga for Depression: Practitioner Training Course Level 1

Course Details

Learn an evidence-based yoga protocol to help students and clients focus, relax, and have greater access to feeling states. This program interweaves ancient yogic wisdom with current findings in neurobiology. Yoga teachers and mental-health professionals will learn strategies appropriate for a clinical setting that can safely release chronically held physical tension and repressed emotion. In the process of learning Yogic techniques to help clients manage their moods and increase self-efficacy, you will also be practicing tools for self-care. Through yoga practice, discussion, and practice teaching sessions you will

• Design one-on-one yoga sessions for dysthymia (chronic depression), anxiety-based depression, PTSD, and bipolar disorder

• Learn breathing and meditation practices for addressing dysthymia and anxiety-based depression

• Add somatic strategies to your clinical practice and yoga classes that increase your clients’ self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-esteem, and ability to cope

• Experience techniques you can teach your clients and students to do at home.

• Practices will include asana (postures), pranayama and kriya (breathing and cleansing), mantra (chanting), bhavana (development of the mind), sankalpa (resolve and intention), mudra (hand gestures), meditation, therapeutic long holding of postures and Nondual strategies for working with negative self-talk.

• You will take home tools and confidence for working with individuals suffering from depression and anxiety.

Required reading Amy Weintraub, Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books) Recommended practice with the LifeForce Yoga® CD series that includes Breathe to Beat the Blues (CD), and LifeForce Yoga to Beat the Blues Level 1 & Level 2 (DVDs). This program is a Certification for Level One training as a LifeForce Yoga Practitioner and offers CEUs from the Yoga Alliance.

This program is eligible for:

• 40 hours for nurses
• 40 hours for mental health counselors
• Applications pending for social work and licensed marriage & family therapists
• 63 hours for yoga instructors (YA)
• See CEU page for more information

Presenter

Amy Weintraub
Amy Weintraub, MFA, E-RYT 500, author of Yoga for Depression (Broadway Books) and founding director of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute, is a leader in the field of yoga and mental health. She offers professional certification trainings in LifeForce Yoga® for Mood Management and speaks at medical and psychological conferences internationally. Amy is involved in ongoing research on the affects of Yoga on mood. Her evidence-based Yoga protocol for managing mood is featured on a number of LifeForce Yoga CDs, and the first DVD home Yoga practice series for mood management, the award-winning LifeForce Yoga to Beat the Blues. She maintains an archive of news and research on her web site www.yogafordepression.com.  

Cost

Tuition: US$800. Add 8 nights' accommodation. For accommodation rates see rates.

Arrival and Departure

The course begins at 11:00am on the first day, and ends at 6:00pm on the last day.

Please plan to arrive at the Yoga Retreat at least one day before the start of the course and to leave at least one day after the course completion.

We recommend that you spend at least a few days in the Yoga Retreat before the start of your course. This allows your body and mind time to rest, re-energize and be nourished by the ashram environment. You can then begin your study feeling relaxed and refreshed. You may also wish to stay for some days after the end of the course to allow the learning from your study to integrate more fully into your consciousness within the supportive environment of the ashram. If you decide to arrive early and to stay longer, please register for the Yoga Vacation Program for those additional days. Please see calendar of events for guest programs on offer around the time of your visit.

Reservations

Please register on line or print the application form and fax it to the Yoga Retreat at fax number: 1-242-363-3783. Then call to give a credit card deposit and to confirm your reservation at 1-866-446-5934 or 1-242-363-2902 . A US$150 deposit is required for your registration. For our cancellation policy please see cancellations.

Tuition Discounts

If you enrol simultaneously in more than one course, discounts apply as follows:

2 courses 5% discount
3 courses 10% discount
4 courses 15% discount
5 courses and more 20% discount

Payment for all courses registered for is required in full on arrival in the ashram.