Gain skills to help students with musculoskeletal injuries, pain and mobility limits
Functional Yoga Therapy for the Structural System
- 45 Hours
- 6 Days Online (4.5-hour sessions each day)
- Prerequisite: Level 1 Kundalini Yoga Teacher or Certified Yoga Therapist from any tradition
- Also available as a stand-alone course
Overview
Skills to help students with musculoskeletal injuries, pain and limits to mobility are often the missing key for many yoga teachers. Expand your teacher toolkit when you join us for this experiential training designed for yoga teachers from all traditions.
In this well-paced course, you will learn essential functional anatomy and therapeutic applications that you can begin using right away, whether teaching group classes or working individually with students and clients.
You will delve deep into understanding how joints and muscles shape the body’s structural system and the movement patterns that help the body get and stay well. You will gain vital knowledge about the most common injuries and complaints that people seek yoga for and will feel more confident giving therapeutic guidance to clients in your practice for specific ailments related to the spine and sacroiliac joint, hip, knee, foot, shoulder, and wrist, as well as common conditions.
Learn how to create safe, targeted, effective yoga sequences for your students and clients, and the appropriate application of movement through Kriya. By understanding the relationship between the body’s structure and function, you will develop the skills to help alleviate pain, improve flexibility and strength, restore ease of movement, and foster overall well-being.
In This Course You Will Learn to:
- Identify the different roles of muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia and cartilage in musculoskeletal health and how dysfunction contributes to discomfort
- Understand various contributors to musculoskeletal ailment, injuries, and pain such as the manner of breathing and postural and movement habits
- Understand the therapeutic application of asana for recovery from structural ailments, injuries and pain.
- Assess students structurally to create treatment protocols and a yoga program to help bring the body into balance and recovery.
Class Format
The online session is 4 hours. Please allow for 3.5-4 hours of required independent work outside of online class per day. In order to receive a certificate of completion, participation for full duration of the course, including class discussions and breakout rooms and completion of homework are required. When on Zoom, camera will be on unless agreed upon with faculty.
Continuing Education
Approved for 45.0 Advanced Professional Development hours through IAYT, 45.0 Continuing Education Units for Yoga Alliance, and 54 contact hours for nurses as required by the California Board of Registered Nurses, Provider# CEP 13960.
Attendance for full duration and completion of homework are required to obtain a certificate of completion.
Enrollment Options
- Option 1: Enroll in the 300-hour certificate Bringing Kundalini Yoga into Healthcare
- Option 2: Take as a stand-alone course. Open to Yoga Therapists in training, Kundalini Yoga teachers and Certified Yoga Therapists from any tradition. Check our course calendar for upcoming dates.
