Advanced Program (500 hours)
Expand Your Skills. Enhance Your Expertise.
Course Description
Take your yoga therapy knowledge to the next level with the Advanced Yoga Therapy Program. This 250-hour module builds a deeper understanding of yoga therapy applications, techniques and clinical approaches.
What You'll Learn
- Advanced client assessments and case study analysis
- Designing therapeutic yoga sequences for chronic conditions or compensations
- Integrating Ayurveda and lifestyle coaching into yoga therapy
- Contemporary and traditional Yoga therapy practices for common pathologies
- The scope and gap that yoga therapy covers in the Western healthcare systemÂ
Who Should Join?
- RYT 200 or RYT 300 yoga teachersÂ
- Graduates of our 300 hour Program looking to refine their skills and apply it to more specialized clientsÂ
- Yoga practitioners who have a curiosity in yoga therapeutic applications
- Those pursuing a professional and sustainable career in yoga therapy
Dates and Info
Date: TBA September 2028
Faculty: C-IAYT yoga therapists and E-RYT 500 teachers (Lucy st John & Niki Inglis) Guest Faculty include: C-IAYT teachers; Bless Leone, Bernadette Pacana, Poonam Mahtani, Jaden Gornall and two highly experienced physiotherapists.
Tuition $3800 + GST includes manuals and registration fee for 250 hours Advanced Program
Friday:  6:00pm – 9:00pm
Saturday: 10:30am – 6:30pm
Sunday: 9:30am – 5:30pm
Program Duration:Â 250 hours
Homework Hours:Â On average students will need to complete 1 hour of homework for every 4 hours of instruction.
Curriculum includes: Somatic yoga for therapy, learning about the ethics and scope of the therapeutic alliance with clients, yoga techniques for mental & physical pathologies, understanding chronic pain and pain science, physical assessment and how to support compensating movements, Ayurvedic studies for therapeutics, beyond the basics, pelvic floor specialization, small group therapy and the application of modalities in yin, restorative, myofascia self-release, yoga nidra, mudras, pranayama, kriyas, mantras and Patajali’s yoga sutras.
This program will begin the practical support for clinical work and how to create referral partnerships.
Manuals for each module are provided.
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