YogaX featured in Stanford Psychiatry News on October 24, 2024.

YogaX, informed by decades of therapeutic yoga work by Dr. Christiane Brems, is a Special Initiative of the Chair that is designed to integrate therapeutic yoga into healthcare. This groundbreaking endeavor equips healthcare providers and yoga professionals with comprehensive skill sets and toolkits that encompass integrated holistic yoga practices, empowering people on their journey toward healing, resilience, and thriving.

YogaX IAYT-Q 300-Hour Program is here! Are you a qualified healthcare professional? Are you interested in integrating yoga strategies into your clinical or community practice? If so, read on about an exciting new certification just for you. Embark on the Study of Therapeutic Yoga Practices for Healthcare Providers

For the last ten years, a team of yoga-practicing psychologists from Stanford University’s Psychiatry Department has offered specialized yoga teacher trainings, as well as research and yoga classes, through the YogaX Integrated Holistic Yoga Program.

This channel is from the YogaX team, a health care-focused yoga school housed in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University.

In this episode we discuss yoga in the clinical setting, misconceptions about yoga, and how to start a practice as a teenager with Dr. Heather Freeman. Dr. Freeman has extensive yoga and clinical experience in college counseling, primary care, and community mental health.

YogaX Director Dr. Christiane Brems and her team have developed YogaX to bring teacher training, continuing education and much more. YogaX infuses the eight limbs of yoga throughout a yoga class into the asanas, the breathing, etc.

YogaX featured in Stanford Daily on Oct. 13, 2024

Yoga with Intention brings together breast cancer patients and survivors from around the world weekly to support their recovery.

Hosted by the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford Medicine and the Santa Barbara Breast Cancer Resource Center, the public series is led by Christiane Brems, a clinical professor at Stanford Medicine, every Thursday over Zoom. Brems said the most rewarding part of the program was the community that has emerged from it.

YogaX Program Manager, Geno Carvalho, was recently interviewed on KZSU Radio to discuss YogaX at Stanford Psychiatry.

Learn more about YogaX and its impact by clicking on the image above to access the interview.

OM Magazine Feature - Imagine going to one of the best academic departments in one of the world’s top medical schools, an institution with indisputable credentials, and training to be a yoga teacher: now it’s possible in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Medicine at Stanford University.

In an already high-stress year, this week just might take the top spot. There’s no easy way to calm down fast, but taking time to do some guided breathing—with the help of handy breathing videos—might help you feel a little better.

YogaX featured in StanfordMed Pulse on June 5, 2024.

YogaX at Stanford Medicine has recently received a new accreditation from the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) that will bring therapeutic yoga skills to health care providers who want to integrate yoga principles into their existing clinical practice.

YogaX in the News