Yoga for Mental Health Theory & Evidence in Practice

Course Overview

Are you looking to enhance your skills or learn new ways to introduce skills into your yoga teaching or therapy practice? This is the breakthrough masterclass for you.

Yoga alone has demonstrated improvements in mental health for anxiety and depressive symptoms and increasing well-being (Pascoe & Bauer, 2015).

From a psychotherapeutic perspective, yoga and other movement practices training present moment awareness not only enhance yoga's natural benefits, but also have clinical benefits. The practices taught in this course are shown to increase present moment awareness, processing engagement, and aid clients otherwise resistant to mindfulness practices.

Along with yoga, more formal mindfulness training and increases in self-compassion all serve to foster connection with the present moment and ultimately long-term improvements in living a meaningful life.

Course Objectives

1. Explain yoga asana, pranayama, meditation, and chanting as the context for discrimination training, discrete trials, and multiple exemplar training.
2. Ability to integrate varied present moment awareness practices into your clinical sessions.
3. Demonstrate the central discrimination tasks of (1) improved functioning and (2) changing context with a relevant yoga asana, pranayama, meditation, and chanting practice.