Level 1 Yoga Therapy Course
2 DVDs with five hours of lectures and demonstrations about Yogic therapy for the neck, shoulders, upper back, lower back, sacrum and hips. Many of the Yoga therapy techniques discussed in the DVDs are for pain management in areas the body where many people commonly experience chronic pain.
Highlights of the two DVDs include:
Presentation on Understanding Lower Back Pain and the application of Yoga therapy
- Technique Workshop on how to safely perform postures and movements
- Focused practice for Low Back and Sacrum Therapy (23 minutes)
- Focused practice for Hip Therapy (30 minutes)
- Integrated practice for sustained low back Strength and Stability (31 minutes)
Presentation on Understanding Upper Back Pain and the application of Yoga therapy
- Technique Workshop on how to safely perform postures and movements
- Focused practice for Upper Back and Neck Therapy (22 minutes)
- Focused practice for Neck and Shoulder Therapy (32 minutes)
- Integrated practice for sustained upper back Strength and Stability (40 minutes)
Special features:
- English Subtitle option for all material
- Bonus MP3s of all practices, for audio-only classes, at home or on the go
Also included with this course are 3 Books containing 1002 pages of information about Yoga therapy.
Some of the highlights of the three books are included below:
- The Koshas, the Chakras, Ayurveda, also the three Gunas, which are the building blocks of all creation, and many other spiritual aspects of Yoga are easily explained.
- Coupled with this is an immense area delving into bodywork, the muscles that we use in various postures, how to correct bad postural habits and increase joint freedom and flexibility.
- These are functional books, and the illustrations are simple sketches which are easy to understand.
- Common misalignments with posture, caused by khyphosis, lordosis and knock knees, are shown, and are easily recognized.
- There are two full page figures showing the muscular system, anterior and posterior views.
- The joint freeing series (parvanmuktasana), starting with the feet and ankles, moving up to knees, hips, torso, and spine, and finally the neck, are easy to follow – showing flexions, extensions, and rotations.
- Muscle strengthening, using the Pavanmuktasana series, follows; and finally, there are classic Yoga asanas.
- Approximately, twenty five postures are illustrated and dealt with in great detail, with precautions and benefits being given, and the meanings of the Sanskrit names explained.
- The importance of pranayama is very well defined, with the lungs clearly illustrated.
- There is also advice on diet, which is so logical one wonders why everyone is not eating sensibly.
- Learn how stress is considered the foremost contributor to poor health and a major factor in causing heart disease, cancer, and a myriad of chronic and acute diseases.
This course does have pre-requisites for graduation.
- You must finish our Introduction to Yoga Therapy Course and meet all of it’s requirements before sending your level 1 Yoga therapy assignments in.
Level 1 Yoga Therapy Course:
- A 150-hour correspondence course.
- Includes complete instructions and exams.
- Graduates will receive a 250 hour diploma (Combined hours of the Intro and Level 1 Courses) suitable for framing.
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