Yoga Therapy Training

With the aging population, yoga teachers are often called on to work with people with a wide range of physical challenges or health condition. In this environment, for many yoga teachers, a natural next step to develop their skills is to take a yoga therapy training.

Add this to yoga’s broad list of applications: healing veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. A specialized type of yoga called iRest is being successfully used to treat soldiers at Walter Reed Army Hospital.

Yoga teachers have seen first hand, time and again, the amazing range of benefits that students gain from the practice. Seeing yoga students blossom into better health, increased physical fitness, greater mental clarity, improved emotional well-being and even spiritual awareness brings teachers a deep, unique joy. Some students have special needs though, and for yoga teachers looking to bring healing where it’s needed most, additional yoga therapy teacher training can be a vital asset.

Like Viniyoga and Rodney Yee's Urban Zen, Yoga Therapy Rx, offers yoga therapy training integrated into traditional health care settings.

LifeForce Yoga targets depression through energizing and cleansing movements (kriyas),  deep breathing routines (pranayama), along with more traditional standing postures, forward and backward bends, and twists. Weintraub also includes elements not commonly found in traditional yoga classes, including mudras, chanting, and therapeutic long holding of postures.