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Yogax’s 200-Hour Therapeutic Yoga YTT fulfills all Yoga Alliance 200-hour yoga teacher training requirements, consisting of five modules:

1. Yoga humanities, including history, philosophy, and ethics

2. Anatomy and physiology, with attention to movement science

3. Professional essentials, including teaching methodology and professional development

4. Techniques, focused on analytical training and experiential practice

5. Practicum experience, including mentored lead teaching

The curriculum focuses on the broad foundations of yoga teaching, specifically in healthcare settings. Integrating deliberate foci on:

• Preparing teachers for applying yoga practices in healthcare and allied healthcare settings

• Making yoga accessible to diverse student groups

• Honoring the wisdom traditions with cultural appreciation and humility

• Drawing on modern science – related to the application of yoga in healthcare settings, and integrating all eight limbs of yoga, from ethics and disciplined lifestyles to movement and breathing practices, to sensory withdrawal, concentration, meditation, and joyful union with a greater purpose. It is dedicated to the principles of ahimsa (non-violence, do no harm) and satya (honesty and truthfulness).

Applicant Eligibility and Prerequisites:

• Relevant prior experience with yoga

• Relevant prior experience in or interest in developing a yoga teaching specialization in a healthcare setting

• Clear goals about how the program will be applied professionally or personally

• Formal Informed Consent related to all program requirements, policies, and other features via signature on the Stanford University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science Assumption of Risk, Release of Claims and Hold Harmless Agreement

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The Advanced 300-hour Theraputic Yoga Teacher Training program is registered and exceeds standards of Yoga Alliance for a 300-hour registered Yoga School. Curriculum integrates wisdom across five domains of study contextualized for providing therapeutic yoga services in healthcare settings:

• Yoga foundations (yoga humanities), with attention to yoga philosophy, history, and psychology; yoga and the mind; and yoga frameworks for health and disease 

• Biomedical and psychological foundations (anatomy and physiology), with attention to anatomy and physiology, application of movement science, psychology, and mental health, and body-mind-heart-community integration

• Yoga therapy tools and therapeutic skills (yoga techniques), with attention to yoga-derived therapeutic intervention strategies or tools, principles of therapeutic relationship-building, and principles and skills related to psychoeducation and coaching that transmit essential values and skills

• Professional practice, with attention to ethics, values clarification, legal matters, and intersections relevant professional ethics code from the extant healthcare profession; risk management skills, and yoga therapy ambassadorship; ongoing personal practice, continuous mentorship, lifelong learning, and consultation and supervision as needed. 

• Practicum experience, with attention to demonstrated assessment skills, conceptualization skills, treatment planning skills, and mentored lead teaching of yoga therapeutics 

Graduates from this advanced YogaX teacher training programs are prepared to work interprofessionally and collaboratively with other healthcare providers on behalf of their students, clients, or patients.  They are committed to helping facilitate an integrated and continuous healthcare experience for their clientele within their healthcare practice settings.

Applicant Eligibility and Prerequisites:

• Prerequisite #1:  Completion of a 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training

• Prerequisite #2: Career or enrollment in an academic program in Healthcare, Allied Healthcare, or Mental Healthcare or Equivalent(evaluated on a case-by-case basis)

• Prerequisite #3: Formal Informed Consent related to all program requirements, policies, and other features via signature on the Stanford University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science Assumption of Risk, Release of Claims and Hold Harmless Agreement

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This advanced therapeutic yoga program is accredited by the International Association of Yoga Therapists and registered with Yoga Alliance. It is specifically designed for qualified healthcare providers who want to bring yoga into their existing healthcare practice.  Trainees can expect to develop holistic and integrated conceptual understandings and therapeutic yoga skills (in line with IAYT’s standards) that are transformative, encourage inquiry, and promote health, resilience, and growth.  Specifically:

• Trainees become knowledgeable in the yoga philosophy, learning to apply yoga history and psychology in their teaching and engaging in deep ethical analysis and commitment that includes clear frameworks for understanding the panchamaya kosha model and framework for understanding health and illness (i.e., the vyuha or four noble truths model). 

• Trainees become steeped in biomedical and psychological foundations, including concepts of anatomy, physiology, and body mechanics to support skillful and healthful physical practices, especially with vulnerable populations of students.   They apply psychological concepts to gain a better understanding of mental health and its relationship to therapeutic yoga, as well as an integrated holistic model for the interaction of physical, vital, mental, emotional, behavioral, and relational wellbeing that serves personal as well as communal (or collective) health and resilience. 

• Trainees learn in-depth and advanced therapeutic yoga and relationship-building strategies and tools with a clear understanding of how to choose and apply such therapeutic yoga to individual client needs in the context of their interpersonal context and biopsychosociocultural matrix.  They understand how to tailor accessible and equitable practices with intention to convey maximum benefit from their planned therapeutic interventions. 

• Trainees make lifelong commitments to professionalism and professional development, especially as related to therapeutic yoga applications in healthcare.  They gain practice with the application to real-life situation of ethical principles, applying this wisdom to managing clinical situations, collaborations with other healthcare providers, and risks versus benefits. 

• Trainees commit to ongoing g professional development, understanding the need for and value of continuing education and compassionate self-care.  They make use of consultation and supervision to assure personal wellbeing as well as client safety. 

• Trainees engage in supervised practicum experiences to become skillful at translating deep scientific knowledge and ancient wisdom into practical therapeutic yoga applications within healthcare settings.

Applicant Eligibility and Prerequisites: - candidates must meet one of the following criteria:

• Option #1: YogaX YTT200 certification

• Option #2: Successfully completed YTT200 registered with Yoga Alliance

  • Applicants must provide the training syllabus for review, demonstrating coverage of all prerequisite information in the YTT200.

  • Any content inadequately covered in the original training may require makeup through additional learning, subject to determination by YogaX lead teachers.

• Option #3: Successfully completed YTT200 certification program not registered with Yoga Alliance

  • Applicants must submit the training syllabus for review, ensuring the inclusion of all prerequisite information in the YTT200.

  • Any content not sufficiently covered in the initial training may necessitate supplementation with additional learning, as determined by the YogaX YTT300/IAYT lead teachers.

• Option #4: Equivalent academic teaching experience or teaching/psychoeducational/patient education experience in the clinical or community healthcare settings.