Training Program

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.

The yoga therapy training at the American Viniyoga Institute centers on train yoga therapists to bring out the best in each client by first understanding the person's present condition and modifying yoga asanas accordingly.

One of the leading yoga therapy training programs for children with special needs was developed by Sonia Sumar, author of Yoga for the Special Child. Ms. Sumar started using yoga therapy for children more than 30 years ago, as intervention therapy for her own daughter, who was born with Down's syndrome in 1972.

The Divine Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Training program was founded to educate others in the utilization of yoga as a valuable healing tool. The training program also places a strong emphasis on Ayurvedic medicine.