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Experiential Anatomy as Yoga Therapy: Learning, Feeling, Integrating
Learning anatomy becomes a rich, multidimensional event when you directly experience physical structures and systems in your own body. Learning anatomy intellectually in one or two dimensions is useful, but... Read more
Should Yoga Postures Take a Backseat in Yoga Therapy? A New Research Paper Tackles a Bold, But Controversial Question
A new critical review of yoga therapy in health care calls for eliminating postures and using reductionist research methods. Is it missing the mark? Read more
Healthy Respiration: How Breathing Affects … Well … Everything
It is essential that massage therapists, yoga teachers, and yoga and movement therapists develop a good basic understanding of ribcage and thoracic spine biomechanics and their relationship to optimal... Read moreFeatured Courses
While millions of Americans suffer from pain in the low back and pelvis, many back and hip issues are actually the result of sacroiliac instability (SI), i.e. an imbalance in the sacroiliac joint, which often goes undiagnosed or is improperly treated. Alarmingly, yoga practitioners appear to...Read more
Hip openers are among the most satisfying and powerful yoga poses. They hold a tremendous potential for transformation; they can help us release deep-seated tension and trauma of the past, which many of us hold locked in the hip area. When practiced correctly, hip openers are a great way to soothe...Read more
Yoga is more popular than ever, but as yoga has become a household word, has it also become a mile wide and an inch deep? Are we missing out on the essence of yoga, even as the practice has become a household word? What can we do to capture the deepest aspects of yoga and integrate these into our...Read more
Most people know the importance of core strengthening for health and long-term well-being, but the pelvic floor is an important group of core muscles, which tend to get ignored. “The torso is like a tote bag for your organs,” says Leslie Howard, a Bay area yoga teacher who conducts workshops...Read more
Yoga Therapy RX Certification Program
Like Viniyoga and Rodney Yee's Urban Zen, Yoga Therapy Rx, offers yoga therapy training integrated into traditional health care settings. Read more
Book Review: Yoga as Medicine Ultimate Guide to Yoga Therapy
Yoga as Medicine: The Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing is clearly a labor of love and the ultimate guide to yoga therapy . This definitive volume was written by the Yoga Journal medical editor,... Read more
Generalized Yoga Therapy Training: Viniyoga
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. Read more
LifeForce Yoga for Depression
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. Read more
Teaching Yoga to Children with Special Needs
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. Read more
Generalized and Specialized Yoga Therapy Training - Which Is Best?
Most forms of yoga therapy training can be divided into two parts: Generalized and specialized. Generalized yoga therapy trainings seek to give a broad yoga therapy education, enabling yoga therapists to apply yoga therapy to a wide range of specific conditions. Specialized forms of yoga therapy certification focus on one specific condition, such as yoga for depression, yoga for MS, or yoga for back pain. Read more