The Inner Yoga Trust Yoga Therapy Course

This is a post teaching diploma course designed to develop and increase a Yoga teachers experience and knowledge of whole body and mind healing through the practice of Yoga.

This course has evolved in order to take the teaching developed as part of the Inner Yoga Trust’s Teachers Awareness Programme into the field known as ‘Remedial’ or ‘Therapeutic’ Yoga. We believe and teach during our two year diploma course that all yoga can be considered remedial/therapeutic, in that it remedies an out-of-balance state in some part of our system that has possibly been brought on by ourselves, our habits, our society or the world we live in. The out of balance state manifests differently in each and every body.

There are many remedial/ yoga therapy courses and specialist modules developing in many schools of yoga with a strong reliance on the medical model of illness. In this model the symptoms expressed by one part of the body or mind are treated in isolation from the rest of the person. At Inner Yoga we feel strongly that the healing aspects of yoga need to stay with the principles and the practice of yoga itself, working with the eight limbs of Yoga and the whole experience of the person and so the whole body.

This course will continue with the Inner Yoga Trusts emphasis on your own practice, developing your own intuition and awareness to be able to see what a particular individual needs. There will be study of different dis-eases and the existing body of knowledge about asana, pranayama as it can be used with particular conditions but the main focus of the course will be the body-mind connection. We will look at how the dis-ease in the body manifests as a result of dis-ease in spirit/mind and feeling body or koshas. This is addressed in the sacred texts of Patanjali, and the Hatha Yoga Pradipika , through the Chakras and Koshas and all of these will be studied as part of the course.

We believe and trust that we can only teach yoga from our own understanding of the transformative effects of our practice on us.

As at September 2010 we are seeking to accredit the course through application to the British Council of Yoga Therapy. (BCYT) If we are successful in our application you will be able to register CNHC as a Yoga Therapist, and thus receive referrals from medical practitioners.