Yoga Therapy in Healthcare

A 300-Hour Professional Training

This training grew out of real work with real people - in hospitals, long-term care, hospice, perinatal settings, and community spaces - where yoga isn’t about performance or aesthetics, but about awareness, dignity, and relationship.

Yoga Therapy in Healthcare is a year-long professional program for yoga teachers and healthcare professionals who want to work more thoughtfully with people living with illness, pain, trauma, disability, and major life transitions.

The program is deeply influenced by Yoga Chikitsa - yoga as a therapeutic system - and grounded in modern healthcare understanding. That means we look at the whole person: body, breath, nervous system, mind, environment, and lived experience. We also stay very clear about scope, ethics, and collaboration with medical providers.

This is not a fitness-based training. And it’s not about memorizing protocols. 

It’s about salutogenesis. Learning how to deeply support well being through the art of listening, assessment, adaptation, and responsiveness - and how to use yoga in a way that actually supports people where they are.

What This Training Focuses On

• Learning how to work with individuals, not idealized bodies

• Developing strong skills in observation, assessment, and therapeutic presence

• Understanding how the nervous system, pain, stress, and trauma shape the body

• Using yoga tools - gentle movement, breath, rest, Yoga Nidra, yin, restorative, and somatic practices - when they’re appropriate, and when they’re not

• Integrating Ayurveda as a supportive lens for rhythm, digestion, and resilience, without overstepping scope

• Working thoughtfully with special populations, including chronic illness, mental health challenges, developmental disabilities, aging, and end-of-life care

The program unfolds in monthly modules, with time to practice, reflect, ask questions, and integrate what you’re learning into your own life and work. There’s space to slow down, revisit core ideas, and build confidence over time.

By the End of the Program, You’ll Be Able To:

• Read and make sense of medical and research literature related to yoga therapy

• Understand common health conditions, symptom patterns, and contraindications relevant to therapeutic yoga

• Communicate clearly with healthcare providers and understand the language they’re using

• Recognize how culture, family systems, belief, and lived experience affect health and healing

• Create yoga-based practices that are safe, responsive, and grounded in Yoga Chikitsa principles

• Work within clear ethical boundaries, knowing when to support, when to refer, and when to pause

If you feel drawn to yoga as a form of care rather than performance, and you want to deepen your work with integrity and humility, you’re in the right place.