How Kundalini Yoga Empowers the Immune System
The immune system is the body’s primary defense mechanism for protecting and maintaining good health and a healthy immune response is essential to staying well. In this 90-minute session Shanti Shanti Kaur walks you through a clear understanding of how the immune system works and offers yogic techniques that specifically support and empower your immune system to help keep you healthy and feeling good.
Provides one hour of Yoga Alliance and IAYT / APD continuing education credit. To get your Certificate of Completion, be sure to complete the quiz included with this course.
Investment: $50
Kundalini Yoga Therapy and the Polyvagal Theory
Kundalini Yoga is known to be generally effective in supporting the nervous system. In this 90-minute session Siri Bhagwati specifically takes you through the function of the autonomic nervous system and yogic approaches to resolve states of dysregulation based on the Polyvagal Theory, with a focus on the role of the central vagus nerve and its branches. She explores hands-on strategies and the application of yoga therapy principles to help reestablish a state of safety and aid regulation.
Investment: $50
Asana and the Meridian System
How exactly does asana work with the meridian system to support good health? In this 90-minute session, Japa Sarah reveals step by step how asana unlocks the deep healing medicine of the 14 major meridians. You begin to develop a sensory relationship with the meridians in your own body as you start to “see” them and their role in asana, and consider ways that your meridians and internal organs play a role in your own health and wellbeing.
Investment: $50
Kundalini Yoga Therapy Approaches to Prevent Migraine
The experience of migraine is a complex neurological condition with varying facets for different people. In this 90-minute session Atma Jot presents aspects of migraine with the recognition that every individual has their own unique experience of migraine. She explores how to address migraine with preventive therapeutic Kundalini Yoga techniques that offer support to help reduce the occurrence, intensity, and duration of migraine.
Investment: $50
Finding and Understanding Yoga Research
In this in-depth 7-hour on-demand research literacy course, Julie Staples, PhD teaches you how to find yoga research as well as how to assess the quality of the research. Topics include the elements of a research paper, types of study bias, search strategies for yoga research, how to identify the best studies and how to obtain them, plus basic concepts of statistics, clinical versus statistical significance, qualitative research, regulatory requirements, and special considerations for yoga research.
Provides 7 hours of Yoga Alliance and IAYT / APD continuing education credit. To receive a certificate of completion, be sure to submit the homework included with this course.
Investment: $210
How Yoga Works: The Scientific Foundations
In this comprehensive 7-hour on-demand course, Julie Staples, PhD sets forth scientific research to demonstrate how yoga affects the various body systems and how yoga benefits a variety of health challenges. Topics include research on posture, breath and mantra; the effect of yoga on the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems; the benefits of yoga for mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress; and the benefits for physical health conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, respiratory conditions, and cancer.
Provides 7 hours of Yoga Alliance and IAYT / APD continuing education credit. To receive a certificate of completion, be sure to submit the homework included with this course.
Investment: $210
How to Do Case Study Research
Created for yoga teachers who want to document the powerful impact yoga has had on their students, in this detailed 3-hour on-demand course with Julie Staples, PhD, you learn precise methodology for doing a case study that is widely accepted in research and medical communities. Topics include the definition of a case study, case studies vs single-subject research designs, review of single subject design, and CARE guidelines for case studies. To practice, you determine a research question, carry out a literature review, write a case study protocol, describe the yoga intervention, what will be measured and how you will measure it.
Provides 3 hours of Yoga Alliance and IAYT / APD continuing education credit. To receive a certificate of completion, be sure to submit the homework included with this course.
Investment: $90
