Certificate Earned Upon Completion: Yoga Therapy for Substance Abuse & Addictions

Pre-requisites: C-IAYT

This course provides 24 Approved Professional Development credit hours for the IAYT toward renewal of your C-IAYT.

This course is 16-hours of prerecorded videos with a quiz at the end, plus eight hours of attendance live in an online Case Studies class which meets Wednesdays 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time. During the Case Studies class, you will present two cases of clients that you worked with where you used yoga therapy for clients with Substance Abuse or Addictions.

The prerecorded classes are online and include discussion in substance abuse and addiction (SAA) issues from childhood trauma, alcoholism, addictive behavior, Substance Use Disorder (SUD), in recovery from addiction, eating disorders, anxiety &/or depression related to substance abuse, and much more.

Students will be guided in how to safely design a practice for someone working on recovery from substance abuse and addiction, the anatomy and physiology of stress, learned coping mechanisms, mental issues from childhood trauma and more, the pathogenesis of SAA issues, current research using yoga as the intervention for SAA, healing suggestions for using yoga for recovery from SAA, case studies of clients with addictions or in recovery from substance abuse.

Requirements:

• Substance Abuse and Addictions-1 - Eight one-hour classes (prerecorded).

• Substance Abuse and Addictions-2 - Eight one-hour classes (prerecorded).

• Case Studies Online Class-Eight week session where you present two case studies of client’s you’ve worked with who have a substance abuse, or addiction issue. Case study presentations are made on the case studies online class—see Current Online Classes. Generally, this class meets Wednesdays 1-2pm. Upon enrollment in this course, you will be autoenrolled in the next available Case Studies session where there are two weeks free for you to present your cases.

This course is taught by JJ Gormley, a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP).

This course is an Approved Professional Development course with the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT). You will receive 24-Hours of CEUs toward your C-IAYT renewal.