Mental Health Certificate
Introducing our YogaX Mental Health Certificate program, an initiative dedicated to equipping healthcare providers and yoga teachers with yoga-based strategies designed to enhance emotional wellbeing and foster mental resilience among individuals facing health-related challenges.
The Yoga for Mental Health module delves into the nuanced art of tailoring yoga strategies to optimize one's capacity in navigating a spectrum of challenges. This exploration extends to understanding both contextual and personal factors contributing to emotional unease and mental distress.
The program employs an integrated holistic approach, incorporating movement, breathwork, mindfulness, meditation, and guided imagery. These techniques are thoughtfully adapted to address specific emotional needs, enabling the creation of highly personalized self-care or wellbeing plans. The goal is to nurture emotional resilience and cognitive flexibility.
This 60-hour advanced training encompasses a blend of didactics, interactive discussions, practical exercises, and personal self-exploration. It provides a profound exploration of integrated yoga practices tailored for mental and emotional well-being.
Our certificate program caters to two main audiences:
Yoga Teachers: Offering a unique opportunity for yoga instructors to integrate services to support students’ mental health.
Mental Healthcare Providers: Providing mental health professionals with a foundational understanding of basic yoga techniques that can be seamlessly integrated into their scope of practice, expanding their toolkit for integrated holistic patient care.
Join us on this transformative journey as we bridge the realms of yoga and mental health, this program equips participants with invaluable tools to support individuals in their journey toward emotional balance and mental wellbeing.
Prerequisites:
The certificate program is available only to individuals who meet at least one of the following criteria:
Registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance.
Currently practicing healthcare professional student in a formal academic healthcare program (to be reviewed and approved by a YogaX staff member).
An individual who is currently enrolled in a YogaX teacher training program with completion of the 200-hour training as a requisite for the certificate.
An individual who has been trained as a yoga teacher or has a personal yoga practice (to be reviewed and approved by a YogaX staff member).
Certification Requirements:
Students must complete two 30hr modules from the list below. Find the syllabi on the modules page.
Must complete the Mental Health module below:
Integrated Holistic Yoga for Mental Health: Cultivating Emotional Resilience and Fortitude
One 30hr module, choose from 1 below:
Inner Practices: Moving into Awareness, Insight, and Compassion
Integrated Holistic Breathing: Enhancing Healthcare and Self-Care Through Freeing the Breath
Integrated Holistic Adaptive Yoga: Theory and Practice of Making Yoga Accessible
Integrated Holistic Yoga: Trauma-Informed Therapeutic Yoga
Total Tuition Cost
$1,520 total for Mental Health Certificate Program.
$1500 for program.
$10 processing fee for first module.
$10 processing fee for second module.
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