50 Hrs – Yoga Teacher Training For Trauma, Depression and Anxiety Certificate Course
- Course: 50 Hrs – Yoga Teacher Training For Trauma, Depression and Anxiety Certificate Course
- Pricing (INR): 25,000 INR
- Accreditation: Yoga Alliance USA YACEP.
- Duration (in months): one month/self-paced
- Contact hours: 30 Hrs
- Non-Contact hours: 20 Hrs
- Time commitment (hours per week) 8-10 hours
- Skill level: Beginner& Intermediate
- Language: English
Introduction
Yoga, breathwork and meditation can be wonderful practices for people who are experiencing depression, anxiety and for those who are healing from past trauma.
Yoga can support individuals on a holistic level, this course will teach you how to use yoga, breathwork and meditation to create a felt sense of safety in the body and the mind.
When people are experiencing mental health conditions, their nervous system is often dysregulated and their brain is not able to function optimally, when yoga is done in a slow, mindful and rhythmic way, it can calm and settle the nervous system and allow the brain to operate well.
This course will give you an overview of the nervous system, the brain and brainwaves and the effect that mental health conditions can have on the systems of the body and mind.
You will gain an understanding of mental health from both and Eastern and a Western perspective, we will discuss the ancient yogic view of mental health, known as the Gunas.
You will learn about what your students may be feeling during your yoga classes if they are experiencing depression or anxiety and how you as a yoga teacher can best support them.
You will learn how to run a trauma sensitive or trauma informed yoga class, you will learn how to avoid common trauma triggers when teaching yoga classes.
You are supplied with guided, sample yoga classes that have been specifically designed for people experiencing mental health conditions.
This course is best suited to those who are already yoga teachers but is also suitable for any person who would like to learn holistic practices, such as mindful movement, breathwork and meditations, that can support individuals who are experiencing mental health conditions.
To Whom this course is for?
- If you are already a yoga teacher and you would like to offer classes specifically for depression and anxiety, this course will be very suited to you!
- If you are already a yoga teacher and you would like to offer trauma sensitive yoga classes, this course will be suitable for you
- If you are a professional who works with people who have mental health conditions and you would like to know some yoga, breathwork and meditation practices that are suitable for your clients, this course will suit you
- This course will also suit any person who has an interest in how yoga, breathwork and meditation can assist people experiencing depression, anxiety or those healing from trauma
What you’ll learn?
- Learn how to guide yoga classes specifically for people experiencing depression and anxiety
- Learn how to offer trauma sensitive yoga classes
- Learn which breathwork and meditation practices are the most suited to people experiencing mental health conditions
- Learn how mental health condition affect the nervous system and the brain and how yoga can support the body and mind to heal
- Learn about the ancient yogic view of mental health
Pre-requisite
This course is best suited to those who are already yoga teachers but is also suitable for any person who would like to learn holistic practices, such as mindful movement, breathwork and meditations, that can support individuals who are experiencing mental health conditions.
Course content
- Mental Health Anatomy And Physiology
- Nervous System
- The Brain
- Brainwaves
- Yoga For Mental Health
- Yoga For Trauma, Depression and Anxiety
- Yoga For Depression·
- Yoga For Anxiety
- Trauma Sensitive Yoga
- Yoga Practices
Breathwork For Mental Health
- Breathwork
- Recognize And Regulate
- Full Yogic Breath
- Boxed Breathing
- Coherent Breathing
Meditation For Mental Health
- Meditation
- Loving Kindness Meditation·
- Breath Awareness Practice
- Body Scan Meditation
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Teaching Method
- Class Planning
- Teaching Tips
Trauma Sensitive Yoga + Social Justice Principles for Yoga Teachers
- Yoga and Trauma: Understanding and applying the 4 primary principles of the Trauma Sensitive Yoga method
- Methods of working with the nervous system to create greater safety in individuals and groups
- Introduction to trauma informed practice as a wider social movement in the ‘helping professions’.
- How yoga can be adapted in specific contexts to support trauma sensitive principles
- A suite of simple teaching principles and practices that can be integrated into daily life, group yoga classes, and 1:1 yoga sessions
- Methods of teaching public yoga classes with a trauma-informed approach
- The scope of professional practice for yoga teachers in the field of mental health, trauma and body image.
- Bringing life experience to teaching: peer work and the appropriate use of self-disclosure and lived experience.
- Social Justice in Mental Health: The role of critical reflection in influencing how and what we teach
- Understanding power and privilege and intersectionality in yoga spaces
- Spiritual Bypassing – what is it, and how does it show up in the yoga world?
- Working with ‘shadow’ – our own and those of others
- Providing tools in the yoga space that encourage acceptance self-empowerment, connection, agency and change.
Yoga for Anxiety, Depression & Mental Health
- Mental Health through Multiple Lenses: yoga, western psychology and questioning pathology
- Narratives of mental health: Ways of thinking about anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues using social justice and narrative approaches
- How to adapt yoga for anxiety reduction
- How to adapt yoga to support depression
- The ecology of healing: The intersection of the koshas and ecological systems theory
- A bio-psycho-social framework for teaching yoga for mental health
- Working with the needs of the individual: avoiding a prescriptive approach
- When and why to avoid certain practices for specific mental health issues
- Specific practices and teaching methods that work with the nervous system to support relief from psychological and emotional experiences, including anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and burnout
- How to structure classes to cater to diverse mental health needs in one space
Yoga for Body Image
- Yoga and Body Image: How Yoga Harms, How Yoga Heals
- Unpacking the notion of the ‘Yoga Body’
- Identifying and responding to white privilege and the impact of racial injustice in yoga spaces
- Encouraging environments of body-positivity and body-acceptance in yoga classes, 1:1 sessions, and personal practice
- The Art of Facilitation: creating and sustaining a safe space
- Balancing acceptance and change in the yoga space
- Working with the damage wrought by the ‘transformation fantasy’ as it relates to the body and yoga in the west, while honouring the transcendent possibility of the practices
- Practical approaches to welcoming difference and diversity in yoga spaces
Trauma-Informed Facilitation Skills, Program Development, Personal Practice + Self-Care
- Codependence in yoga teaching: how to work with the distress of others without moving to save or fix
- Sustaining our own practice and passion for this work
- Designing your own trauma informed programs
- How to work 1:1 with experiences of distress
- The art of therapeutic presence: how to work with the distress of others without moving to save or fix
- Moving beyond imposter syndrome: readiness to teach and knowing when you’re skilled enough to teach for specialised groups.
- Moving beyond “doing good” and unsustainable activism. Learning how to work collaboratively to bring about change.
- Personal practice considerations
- How to surround yourself with ongoing support in this work: Supervision and Sangha
- Cultivating active hope in the face of the difficulties of our students and communities