Yoga Therapy in Healthcare Foundations Training
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Yoga Therapy in Healthcare
Foundations Training

A 300-Hour Hybrid Training for healthcare professionals and experienced yoga practitioners ready to bring wholeness back into care.

Trauma-informed. Clinically grounded.
Rooted in Yoga as a healing tradition.

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Yoga Therapy in Healthcare Foundations Training

A 300-Hour Hybrid Training for healthcare professionals and experienced yoga practitioners ready to bring wholeness back into care.

Apply Today →

Trauma-informed. Clinically grounded.
Rooted in Yoga as a healing tradition.

300 

Hours

Hybrid

Asynchronous

Mentored

Practicum

Closing

Retreat

The Field Is Changing - and Person Centered Care Is Catching Up

This program was created for healthcare professionals who love yoga and know the current system isn’t enough.

Across healthcare and integrative health spaces, there is a growing recognition that something essential has been missing.
We don't need more information.
Another certification.
But a way of working that honors the whole person and the whole practitioner.

Recent communications from the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) have named a clear need for stronger, more coherent foundations in Yoga Therapy education, including:

  • accessible foundational training pathways
  • ethical integration of Yoga Therapy into healthcare roles
  • clear prerequisites and scope of practice
  • mentorship, practicum, and professional accountability
  • hybrid learning models that meet working professionals where they are

This shift matters, especially for those of us already working in care.

Because while many professionals are deeply trained in protocols, diagnostics, and evidence-based interventions, far fewer have been supported in working skillfully with:

  • the nervous system and stress physiology
  • trauma, overwhelm, and chronic activation
  • breath, perception, and embodied awareness
  • meaning, resilience, and the inner experience of illness
  • the cumulative toll of caregiving - including our own

Yoga Therapy offers a language and framework for this missing terrain - one that is both timeless and increasingly relevant in modern healthcare.

 

Introducing

Yoga Therapy in Healthcare

A 300-Hour Hybrid Training for Professionals Working at the Intersection of Care, Embodiment, and Health. A small cohort, hybrid foundations training designed for professionals who want to bring Yoga Therapy into healthcare and care-adjacent settings with ethical clarity, mentorship, and clinical relevance.

This Program is for You If:

You work in healthcare and feel the limits of the current model

You already practice or teach yoga and want to integrate it responsibly

You care deeply and feel the toll of caring

You want more skill to support those you care for

You want mentorship and wise counsel

This training will teach you to work more skillfully, more ethically, and more sustainably - for the people you serve and for yourself.

Apply For The Foundational Cohort

How do we support the whole person  

not just the diagnosis?

Learn to integrate embodied, trauma-informed care into clinical practice with real tools grounded in ancient science and lived experience.  If you’re here, chances are you already work in care.

You may be a yoga teacher, bodyworker, mental health professional, physical therapist, nurse, or recreation specialist. You may love your work - and still feel the limits of the systems you’re working inside.

 

Foundation One

Foundations + Scope

  • History and scope of Yoga Therapy

  • Yoga Therapy vs. yoga teaching: roles, boundaries, and responsibility

  • Ethical frameworks and professional discernment

  • Intake, interview, and assessment processes

  • Contraindications, red flags, and safety considerations

  • Documentation and clinical communication

  • Collaboration within interdisciplinary teams

    This foundation ensures all students — regardless of background — share a clear, safe, and professional baseline.

Ready? Let's Go →
Foundation Two

Clinical Tools + Therapeutic Skills

  • Asana as therapeutic intervention (adaptation, function, safety)

  • Pranayama and breath regulation

  • Restorative yoga and Yoga Nidra

  • Meditation and mindfulness practices

  • Sequencing for therapeutic goals

  • Introduction to nervous system regulation and trauma-informed application

Ready? Let's Go →
Foundation Three

Integration + Practicum

  • Professional Integration

    • Translating Yoga Therapy principles into healthcare environments

    • Working within existing licensure and scope

    • Referral relationships and interdisciplinary collaboration

    • Language, consent, and client education

    Practicum & Seva

    • Supervised student practicum

    • Community-based seva project

    • Reflective practice and mentorship support

    Closing Integration

    • Case reflection and synthesis

    • Closing in-person retreat

    • Integration of learning into ongoing professional life

     

Ready? Let's Go →

Program Founder and Lead Instructor

Jeanette Sealy, C-IAYT, LMT Lead Faculty & Program Director

Jeanette Sealy is a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), Licensed Massage Therapist, clinical educator, and USAF Veteran with over 25 years of experience working at the intersection of Yoga Therapy, integrative health, and direct patient care.

Her clinical background spans long-term care, hospice and end-of-life, oncology, perinatal care, recreation therapy, and corporate healthcare — giving her a rare ability to translate Yoga Therapy principles into the language and reality of modern healthcare settings.

Jeanette was a featured speaker at the APTA Combined Sections Meeting, one of the largest physical therapy conferences in the country, where she presented on trauma-informed mindfulness practices for clinical populations. She is the founder of Sanctuary by the Sea Wellness Center in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ, a hub for clinical education, immersive retreats, and continuing education for healthcare professionals.

As a Death Doula, Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula, and long-time Ayurvedic practitioner, she brings a whole-life, whole-person lens to every dimension of this work. She is currently pursuing VA provider status to extend Yoga Therapy services to veterans.

Jeanette doesn't just teach this material. She has lived it, practiced it clinically, and refined it across three decades of caring for people at the most vulnerable moments of their lives. That's what she brings into this training -  expertise, lived experience and devotion.

 

Guest Faculty

Swamini Shraddhananda Saraswati

Mudra, Mantra and Chanting

Swamini Shraddhananda Saraswati is a monastic teacher in the Saraswati lineage whose work lives at the sacred intersection of sound, devotion, and healing. She brings decades of study and transmission in mantra, mudra, and chanting. Her teaching opens something in the body that words alone cannot reach. She is a beloved teacher and dear collaborator of Jeanette's, and her presence in this program is a profound gift.

Kaya Mindlin

Supreme Release Yoga and Yoga philosophy

Kaya Mindlin is the creator of Supreme Release Yoga - a deeply somatic approach to practice that works with the body's natural intelligence rather than against it. A devoted student of Yoga philosophy, she brings both scholarly depth and lived embodiment to everything she teaches. Her work is precise, tender, and transformative. Students leave her sessions with a fundamentally different relationship to their own tissues, their own mind, and their own capacity to let go.

Jules Mitchell

Biomechanics and hypermobility

Jules Mitchell is one of the most respected voices in Yoga biomechanics in the world. Her graduate research on stretching and tissue adaptation changed how thousands of yoga teachers and therapists understand the body — and she communicates that science with rare clarity and warmth. Her specialty in hypermobility is especially valuable for Yoga Therapists working with clinical populations, where the assumption that "more flexible is better" can cause real harm. Jules will change the way you see every body that walks into your session.

Nidhi Pandya

Ayurveda

Nidhi Pandya is a third-generation Ayurvedic Vaidya — Ayurveda wasn't something she studied, it was something she was raised inside. Her family lineage carries knowledge that has been lived and refined across generations, and she transmits it with that same embodied authority. Her teaching bridges classical Ayurvedic wisdom with the practical realities of modern life and clinical practice. She is also the author of Your Body Already Knows — a book that brings Ayurveda home in the most accessible, profound way.

Mike Rodriguez

Yoga Nidra and Veterans Program Director

Mike Rodriguez is a retired Army Colonel, long-time Yogic practitioner, and one of those rare teachers whose wisdom and heart-centeredness fill an entire room before he says a word. His life has been shaped by decades of service, leadership, and a deep inner practice.
Mike is the founder of Maha Sadhana — The Great Practice — a devoted offering rooted in the transformative power of Yoga, sound, and sincere spiritual inquiry. He teaches Yoga Nidra as a practice of profound rest and inner listening, and he plays the harmonium with a devotion that reminds you why we came to this path in the first place.

“New perspective and healing…”

“Jeanette holds space for all of her students so beautifully. Anyone who gets a chance to work with her will come away with new perspective and healing.”

Angela Sidlo, Waves of Change Wellness

“More than therapeutic...”

“Jeanette has gifted hands, and leaves everyone she touches knowing that they are whole on every level. A session with Jeanette is more than therapeutic. She is a genius.”

Trish West-Low, PT, MA, DPT, PCS

“Awakening human potential...”

"I invited Jeanette to teach in our professional training programs and to provide her own trainings through my organization, Kula Kamala Foundation. Jeanette has offered intelligent instruction, guidance and commentary on topics ranging from anatomy to spirituality, and from the complexities of pain and suffering to the efficacy of holistic modalities as aids in healing and awakening to our human potential."

Swamini Shraddhananda Saraswati

What's Included

On-Demand

Video Lessons

knowledge lectures, therapeutic practices, clinical protocols, case-based learning

Downloadable

In-Depth Resources

Dive into the science of Yoga chikitsa 

Engaging

Online Community

be held in an online learning community of like minded souls

A Year of Deep Study 
September 2026 — August 2027 

All times EST 

This program unfolds over 12 months, combining 300 live instructional hours, 65 hours of practicum, and a closing 3-day in-person retreat.

Wednesday evening sessions meet online via live video - attend from anywhere in the world. Weekend immersions are offered in hybrid format, with three select weekends requiring in-person attendance. All sessions are recorded for short-term replay access.

Required in-person weekends: November, January, and the closing August retreat. All other weekends may be attended virtually with full credit.

Format at a Glance

Wednesday evenings · 5–8pm EST · Live virtual Weekend immersions · Saturday & Sunday · 10am–6pm · Hybrid Closing retreat · 3 days · In person · Date TBD Independent study · 65 hours · Self-paced

300 live instructional hours ¡ 65 practicum hours ¡ 365 total program hours

September Foundations of Yoga Therapy & Therapeutic Presence

Wednesdays 5–8pm: September 2 & 16 Weekend Immersion: Saturday & Sunday, September 26 & 27 · 10am–6pm Virtual attendance available

Where we begin — establishing the philosophical and clinical foundations of Yoga Therapy, developing therapeutic presence, and clarifying scope of practice and professional identity.

October Assessment, Observation & Functional Foundations

Wednesdays 5–8pm: October 7 & 21 Weekend Immersion: Saturday & Sunday, October 17 & 18 · 10am–6pm Virtual attendance available

Learning to see and listen as a Yoga Therapist — functional movement assessment, breath observation, and the art of building a therapeutic relationship before a single technique is introduced.

November ⭑ Required In-Person Weekend Nervous System, Trauma & Regulation

Wednesdays 5–8pm: November 4 & 18 Weekend Immersion: Saturday & Sunday, November 7 & 8 · 10am–6pm In-person attendance required

The heart of trauma-informed practice — polyvagal theory, stress physiology, autonomic regulation, and somatic tools that create safety in the body before anything else can heal. This weekend requires in-person attendance.

December Therapeutic Asana, Breath & Somatic Practice

Wednesdays 5–8pm: December 2 & 16 Weekend Immersion: Saturday & Sunday, December 5 & 6 · 10am–6pm Virtual attendance

Moving from posture into therapeutics — how asana becomes medicine when applied with intention, individualization, and clinical discernment. Biomechanics as a primary therapeutic tool.

January ⭑ Required In-Person Weekend Immersive Ayurveda in Yoga Therapy

Wednesdays 5–8pm: January 6 & 20 Weekend Immersions: Saturday & Sunday, January 2 & 3 · January 23 & 24 · 10am–6pm In-person attendance required

Ayurveda as a living clinical system — constitutional assessment, Agni, Ama, dinacharya, and the profound alignment between Ayurvedic and Yoga Therapy frameworks.

On one weekend day, participants gather in the kitchen together. We prepare a seasonal Ayurvedic meal — chopping, stirring, tasting, talking — and share it at the table as a community. This is not a break from the curriculum. It is the curriculum. Embodied Ayurveda lives in your hands and your digestion and your relationship with what nourishes you.

February Chronic Pain, Autoimmune & Inflammatory Conditions

Wednesdays 5–8pm: February 3 & 17 Weekend Immersion: Saturday & Sunday, February 27 & 28 · 10am–6pm Virtual attendance available

Working skillfully with the populations most underserved by conventional care — pain neuroscience, central sensitization, and the somatic wisdom that lives beneath diagnosis labels.

March Cardiac, Pulmonary & Medical Populations

Wednesdays 5–8pm: March 3 & 24 Weekend Immersion: Saturday & Sunday, March 20 & 21 · 10am–6pm Virtual attendance available

Yoga therapy in medically complex settings — contraindications, precautions, and the profound possibilities of breath-centered care for cardiac and pulmonary patients. Pranayama as clinical intervention.

April Mental Health, Grief & End-of-Life Care

Wednesdays 5–8pm: April 7 & March 21 Weekend Immersion: Saturday & Sunday, April 10 & 11 · 10am–6pm Virtual attendance available

Holding the full arc of human experience — supporting people through depression, anxiety, grief, dying, and the sacred thresholds that conventional care rarely has language for.

May Perinatal, Hormonal & Women's Health

Wednesdays 5–8pm: May 5 & 19 Weekend Immersions: Saturday & Sunday, May 1 & 2 · May 22 & 23 · 10am–6pm Virtual attendance available

The wisdom of the feminine cycle — supporting women through pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, and the hormonal terrain that shapes so much of embodied life from the inside out.

June Case Studies, Teaching & Clinical Integration

Wednesdays 5–8pm: June 2, 16 & 30 Weekend Immersion: Saturday & Sunday, June 12 & 13 · 10am–6pm Virtual attendance available

Bringing it all together — supervised case study presentations, peer teaching practicums, and the refinement of your unique therapeutic voice and clinical identity.

July Professional Practice, Leadership & Seva Project

Wednesdays 5–8pm: July 14 & 28 Weekend Immersion: Saturday & Sunday, July 10 & 11 · 10am–6pm Virtual attendance available

Stepping into professional identity — documentation, ethics, interdisciplinary collaboration, business of Yoga Therapy, and the seva project that roots your practice in service.

August ⭑ Required In-Person Integration, Embodiment & Initiation

Wednesdays 5–8pm: August 11 & 25 Weekend Immersion: Saturday & Sunday, August 7 & 8 · 10am–6pm In-person attendance required

Closing Retreat & Graduation Celebration ¡ Date TBD ¡ In Person

The culmination of a year of transformation. We gather in person one final time — to integrate, to be witnessed, to celebrate, and to be initiated into the next chapter of your practice and your life. 

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Trying to Decide?

This is for you if...

This program is designed for people who want to practice with clarity and confidence without the exhaustion, second-guessing, or quiet burnout that so often comes with caring deeply.

  • You work in healthcare or a healthcare-adjacent role and feel the limits of the current model

  • You already practice or teach yoga and want to integrate it responsibly, not casually

  • You’re curious about Yoga Therapy as a process, not a collection of techniques

  • You care deeply — and feel the toll of caring

  • You want mentorship, feedback, and accountability

  • You’re willing to reflect on your own nervous system, patterns, and presence

  • You value ethics, scope of practice, and interdisciplinary respect

This may not be for you if...

This isn’t about being “advanced” or “perfect.”
It’s about readiness — for depth, responsibility, and relationship.

  • You’re looking for a fast certification or an add-on you can complete without engagement

  • You want a purely posture-based or fitness-oriented training

  • You’re not interested in mentorship, reflection, or feedback

  • You’re hoping to bypass scope-of-practice conversations

  • You want scripts and protocols without understanding the why behind them

  • You’re not in a place to commit time, presence, and care to the learning process

     

Need a Reason to Start?

Here are 3 Great Reasons

Ethical Integration

Clarity on scope, language, and collaboration so you can bring yoga therapy into real-world settings responsibly.

Clinical Relevance + Embodied Tools

Practical skills for nervous system regulation, pain support, and trauma-informed care.

Mentored Transformation

This isn’t only professional development - your own regulation and resilience change too.

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  • Foundations cohort begins September 2026

  • Only 8 seats available

  • $6,000 early bird pricing

  • $1,000 non-refundable deposit to hold seat

  • Payment plans available

  • Immediate access to Alchemy of Trauma

 

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