Are you ready to say YES to becoming a certified yoga teacher through Integrative Yoga Therapy?
Are you a current yoga teacher looking for continuing ed credits or just looking to deepen your yoga knowledge?
About Midwest IYT
We believe that yoga is for every body and a yoga teachers ideal role is to be helping individuals of every size, age, and ability level reconnect with the wholeness that's deep inside themselves.
We believe in the power of making the ancient practice of Yoga applicable to the Modern Yogi.
We believe that when a Yoga student is matched with the correct class level, style of yoga, and a high-quality teacher, the Yoga experience is therapeutic and transformational.
The Integrative Yoga Therapy model uses the 5 Kosha's as the framework for understanding human health and wellness. You will learn ancient and modern Yoga tools to support all 5 Koshas.
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Why our program uses the word 'therapy'?
The yoga community frequently debates how the word 'therapy' applies to our practice. In essence, whenever a student is matched with the appropriate style of yoga and an exceptional teacher, all Yoga is therapeutic in nature. IYT (Integrative Yoga Therapy) and our training program use the Five Kosha model as a foundation for guiding high quality well-rounded Yoga practices. The koshas are part of a distinctive therapeutic approach that you'll explore in this training.
What are 'koshas'?
The word kosha can be translated as 'sheaths' or 'bodies'. It is the understanding that every individual has a 1) physical body, 2) energy body, 3) mental body, 4) wisdom body, and 5) bliss body. A well balanced yoga practice nurtures and feeds all five of these bodies.
Most busy modern individuals are not aware of these multiple bodies within themselves. As teachers, it's up to us to help guide our students into a real experience with and awareness of their koshas.
200-hr YTT Curriculum
Module 1: Intro to Integrative Yoga Therapy
Module 2: Body Awareness
Module 3: Chakras and Energy Healing
Module 4: Modalities of Meditation
Module 5: Heart Centered Practices
Module 6: Teaching Essentials and Sequencing
Module 7: Ayurveda and the Elements
Module 8: Gita and Karma Yoga
Module 9: Special Populations
Module 10: Final Exams
Program and Integrative Yoga Therapy Information
Students learn to teach Yoga for a wide range of complementary settings, including health care and Yoga classes for the general public. This program is open to anyone with a basic foundation in Yoga and is especially suitable for current yoga instructors looking to expand their knowledge, body-workers, health care professionals, therapists and anyone with a desire to teach this ancient healing art.
Applicants must have a minimum of 1 year Yoga experience.
Overview and History Of IYT
Integrative Yoga Therapy, founded in 1993 by Joseph Le Page, is a pioneer in Yoga Therapy training programs in the United States with more than 3,000 therapists trained worldwide.
“I wanted to create a training program with the focus on Yoga as a healing art which would be student centered, non-dogmatic and in alignment with the latest approaches to teaching, while remaining deeply rooted in the vast treasury of wisdom within the Yoga tradition”, explains Joseph Le Page.
Integrative Yoga Therapy brings together all of the most powerful Yoga tools: asana, pranayama, mudra, Yoga Nidra, mantra, and meditation into a complete approach, allowing them to be integrated and utilized for therapeutic classes directed toward specific focus groups and for one-on-one Yoga therapy sessions.
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