Self-Paced 500-Hour Online Advanced Yoga Therapy Teacher Training Course

Pre-application requirements

• Anyone who can speak and understand English well can follow this training course
• Those who have completed 200 hours yoga teacher training

OR

• Experienced yoga practitioners, all therapists, psychologists, physiotherapists
• Medical, psychology, physiotherapy students, seekers are all welcome to join this course
• Have an open mind to learn

Skill Level

Please note that this course is suitable for matured open minded people who are seeking deeper understanding and to gain physical, therapeutic, and mental benefits from authentic yoga practice and not for those who consider yoga as a mere physical exercise.

Certifications

Upon completion of this course, you will receive an internationally recognized "Yoga Alliance International" advanced teacher training certificate on yoga therapy .

Qualification

You will be qualified to teach:

• Meditation
• Mindfulness
• Holistic yoga
• Yoga therapy

Registered Yoga Therapy Teacher (RYT)

Note - You will do all the registration process with the “Yoga Alliance International” without any additional charges.

How the training works

This training is a one-on-one or two-persons private training program. Each session lasts one hour thirty minutes. Printed notes will be sent through email regularly and students are also required to take their own notes.

A total course can be completed at your own pace, depending on how many sessions you take per day. You are suggested to take one session per day, where you will have time to study and practice at least 1.5 hour every day.

Timing of sessions (GMT +7)

The teacher and student have to fix mutually suitable timings for 100 sessions, between 6 a.m. and 12 a.m. before they start the training. It can be flexible, and you can discuss and make changes if required.

Curriculum

Concept of yoga therapy

• Concept of meditation and mindfulness
• Ancient philosophy on meditation and mindfulness
• Concept of yoga
• Concept of human system according to yogic science - Pancha kosa / five body

Differences in concept of human system according to yoga and modern medical science

• Mindfulness yoga and yoga therapy
• Anatomy and physiology - Organ, organ systems - respiratory system, digestive system, circulatory system, nervous system, immune system
• Strengthening immune system through yoga therapy and yoga techniques
• Structure of energy body and the role of energy / prana in preventing diseases
• Health and disease - Yogic prospective
• Five bodies / aspects concept and yoga therapy
• Yogic concept of diseases
• What is yoga therapy and what is not yoga therapy
• Yoga counseling, health psychology, yoga practices for emotion culture
• Advance yoga therapy techniques
• Yoga for personality development and yoga therapy
• Integrated Approach of Yoga Therapy (IAYT) - Yoga therapy and wellness
• Concept of IAYT based on Integrated Approach of Yoga Practice (IAYP)
• Modern day diseases and IAYT - how IAYT can prevent, manage, and reverse / heal

IAYT for hypertension and heart diseases

• Introduction
• How does stress increase blood pressure
• What does blood pressure depend upon
• What are the complications of high blood pressure
• Prevention and management of hypertension through IAYT

IAYT for coronary heart diseases (CHD)

• Introduction
• The effects of CHD
• Consequences of coronary blockages
• Risk factors for CHD
• Why young people get CHD in modern days
• Stress and heart
• The autonomic nervous system and how stress responses are regulated
• Prevention and management of CHD through IAYT yoga way of lifestyle

IAYT for digestive disorders

• Introduction
• Causes / risk factors
• Prevention, management, and reversal / healing through yoga therapy for IBS, gastritis, gastric ulcer, peptic ulcer, chronic constipation, etc.

IAYT for bronchial asthma

• Introduction of asthma and nasal energy
• Causes / risk factors
• Prevention and management through yoga therapy

IAYT for anxiety and depression (A&D)

• Introduction; two types of anxiety
• What is depression
• When anxiety and depression becomes a disease
• Prevention, management and reversal of anxiety and depression through IAYT and yoga way of lifestyle

IAYT for diabetes

• Introduction
• Two types of diabetes
• Risk factors / causes for diabetes
• Why young persons get diabetes and it is increasing in modern days
• Prevention, management, and reversal of diabetes through IAYT and yoga way of lifestyle

IAYT for arthritis

• Introduction
• Modern medical and yoga perspective of arthritis
• Structure and function of joints
• What causes arthritis
• What is osteoarthritis
• Arthritis and stress
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Autoimmunity and arthritis
• Preventing, managing, and reversing arthritis through IAYT and yoga way of lifestyle

IAYT for pregnancy

• Introduction
• Three trimesters of pregnancy
• Effects of stress on pregnancy
• Basis of IAYT for pregnancy
• Yoga practices during pregnancy
• Three sets of yoga practices during 1st, 2nd, and 3rd trimesters
• Yoga practices during child delivery
• Yoga after child birth

IAYT for back and neck pains

• Lifestyle causes for back and neck pain
• Stress as cause for back and neck pain
• Preventing, managing, and reversing back and neck pains through yoga techniques and yoga therapy

IAYT for insomnia and sleeping disorders

• Causes for these problems
• Preventing these problems through mindfulness yoga practices, meditation, and yoga techniques

IAYT for headaches

• Causes and prevention
• Reversal / healing of headaches such as migraine and tension headache through yoga techniques and yoga therapy

IAYT for borderline personality disorder

• Causes and prevention
• Management through the yoga way of lifestyle and yoga techniques

IAYT for nerve damaging aging diseases

• Causes and prevention
• Managing through lifestyle and yogic techniques

IAYT for PCOD and PCOS

• Causes, prevention, and treatment

IAYT for thyroid problems

• Causes, prevention, and treatment

IAYT for cancer

• Introduction
• Various types of cancers
• Causes and prevention
• Holistic yogic solutions
• Management and rehabilitation

Ayurveda

Ayurveda is a different healthcare system of ancient India. Yoga compliments Ayurveda and modern medicine. Ayurveda basic knowledge will also be taught in this course.

• Ayurveda code
• Fundamental doctrine
• Tri doshas
• Diagnosis methods
• Purification therapy
• Ayurveda diet / nutrition

Applications of yoga

• Yoga for stress management
• Yoga for weight management
• Yoga for sports persons – preventing sports injuries, mental training etc..
• Yoga for elderly persons
• Yoga for children
• Yoga for trekkers in high altitude mountains how to prevent high altitude sickness..etc..

Teaching practice

• You will be taught first to self practice yourself and experience transformations taking place in you at all the 5 levels and therefore you will be able to teach others confidently.
• General guidelines of teaching.
• Planning different modules/ techniques for different specific problems/ diseases(Physical and mental).

This teacher training is held online. Himalayan Yoga Retreat and Ayurveda Center is located in Siem Reap, Cambodia (GMT+7), and they will live-stream yoga classes via Google Meet which you can participate from the comfort of your home.

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• 150 contact hours online private sessions
• Course material
• Certificate from Yoga Alliance International
• Registration process with Yoga Alliance International RYT (no extra fee or charges)

• Accommodation
• Food

• A reservation requires a deposit of 14% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
• The rest of the payment should be paid 3 days before arrival.