Foundations Course Outline
- The history of yoga therapy
- Yoga anatomy
- The Koshas
- The role of the Yoga
- Therapist
- Pathology from a yoga perspective
- The role of ayurvedic ideas
- Sadhna
- What you need to know – anatomy
- How pain works
- What clears pain
- Basic yoga poses with anatomy and connections and how/when to use alignment
- Stages of rehab and healing with many techniques including muscle and nerve pain
- Breath anatomy and how to use it
- Ayurvedic concepts
- Food theory and how to apply it
- Case studies
- Pranayamas and their application
- How to balance the doshas
- Understanding prana flow
- How to work with: emotional imbalances (i.e. depression, anxiety)
- How to work with: system wide imbalance (i.e. autoimmune disease, chronic pain)
- Case studies
- The role of the conscious mind/intellect
- Yoga and philosophy teachings
- The uses of chanting
- Using the chakra model
- Using the mind for emotional release
- More yoga philosophy
- Practices for the intellect/personality
- How to talk to clients in a real way about point of view
- Yoga Philosophy
- Practices for opening the spiritual heart
- How to talk to people about intuition and heart
- Bhakti yoga for healing
- Case studies
- Assembling a plan
- Pathology
- Advanced anatomy
- More food theory
- When to refer out
- Scope of practice
- Integrating with other practitioners and modalities
- Ayurveda and Chinese medicine crossovers