Yoga As Medicine: The Art and Science of Yoga Therapy
January 20-24, 2025
Early Bird discount through October 31, 2024
Yoga As Medicine is a 5-day, 30-hour, hands-on, roll-up-your sleeves intensive workshop, with much of the time spent doing yoga therapy in small groups under Dr. Timothy's supervision. Practice observing bodies, study breathing patterns, analyzing doshas (body-mind types as described in ancient Ayurvedic medicine), and tailoring personalized therapeutic yoga practices. Lectures, yoga practices, writing exercises and guided meditations complement the group case work. In addition, Timothy will demonstrate an in-depth yoga therapy evaluation and develop a therapeutic practice for one of the workshop participants, modeling what students will later do in their group yoga therapy case work.
During case work, and in detailed discussions of selected cases, we evaluate "patients" in five categories, using the acronym SNAPS: Structural, Nervous System and Breath, Ayurveda, Psychology and Spirituality. This holistic roadmap allows for a systematic assessment of function on all levels of body, mind and spirit. YAM uses the full palette of yogic tools including poses, breathing techniques, meditation and philosophy as well as dietary and lifestyle advice. Each group will tailor a therapeutic practice for their patient/client under Timothy's and his assistants’ supervision.
Three of the groups will present their cases in the final sessions of this training. Timothy will systemically go through each case and analyze if the recommended therapeutic practices should be adjusted in any way. Case presentations and their critique are the culmination of all the work of the week — and a high point for many attendees — so please don't leave early the final day unless you have to.
Past attendees have included healers, health care professionals, yoga therapists, yoga students and teachers, as well as those seeking yoga therapy for such conditions as back pain, cancer, arthritis, heart problems, autoimmune conditions, anxiety and depression.
January 20-24, 2025 (Registration closes January 16)
Monday to Friday, 9am-noon and 1:30pm to 4:30pm
Tuition: $810
Early Bird Discount: $720 by October 31, 2024
Email us if you are attending the IIYT Symposium for a special discounted rate of $650 by September 30, 2024, $720 thereafter
January 20-24, 2025
Early Bird discount through October 31, 2024
Yoga As Medicine is a 5-day, 30-hour, hands-on, roll-up-your sleeves intensive workshop, with much of the time spent doing yoga therapy in small groups under Dr. Timothy's supervision. Practice observing bodies, study breathing patterns, analyzing doshas (body-mind types as described in ancient Ayurvedic medicine), and tailoring personalized therapeutic yoga practices. Lectures, yoga practices, writing exercises and guided meditations complement the group case work. In addition, Timothy will demonstrate an in-depth yoga therapy evaluation and develop a therapeutic practice for one of the workshop participants, modeling what students will later do in their group yoga therapy case work.
During case work, and in detailed discussions of selected cases, we evaluate "patients" in five categories, using the acronym SNAPS: Structural, Nervous System and Breath, Ayurveda, Psychology and Spirituality. This holistic roadmap allows for a systematic assessment of function on all levels of body, mind and spirit. YAM uses the full palette of yogic tools including poses, breathing techniques, meditation and philosophy as well as dietary and lifestyle advice. Each group will tailor a therapeutic practice for their patient/client under Timothy's and his assistants’ supervision.
Three of the groups will present their cases in the final sessions of this training. Timothy will systemically go through each case and analyze if the recommended therapeutic practices should be adjusted in any way. Case presentations and their critique are the culmination of all the work of the week — and a high point for many attendees — so please don't leave early the final day unless you have to.
Past attendees have included healers, health care professionals, yoga therapists, yoga students and teachers, as well as those seeking yoga therapy for such conditions as back pain, cancer, arthritis, heart problems, autoimmune conditions, anxiety and depression.
January 20-24, 2025 (Registration closes January 16)
Monday to Friday, 9am-noon and 1:30pm to 4:30pm
Tuition: $810
Early Bird Discount: $720 by October 31, 2024
Email us if you are attending the IIYT Symposium for a special discounted rate of $650 by September 30, 2024, $720 thereafter
January 20-24, 2025
Early Bird discount through October 31, 2024
Yoga As Medicine is a 5-day, 30-hour, hands-on, roll-up-your sleeves intensive workshop, with much of the time spent doing yoga therapy in small groups under Dr. Timothy's supervision. Practice observing bodies, study breathing patterns, analyzing doshas (body-mind types as described in ancient Ayurvedic medicine), and tailoring personalized therapeutic yoga practices. Lectures, yoga practices, writing exercises and guided meditations complement the group case work. In addition, Timothy will demonstrate an in-depth yoga therapy evaluation and develop a therapeutic practice for one of the workshop participants, modeling what students will later do in their group yoga therapy case work.
During case work, and in detailed discussions of selected cases, we evaluate "patients" in five categories, using the acronym SNAPS: Structural, Nervous System and Breath, Ayurveda, Psychology and Spirituality. This holistic roadmap allows for a systematic assessment of function on all levels of body, mind and spirit. YAM uses the full palette of yogic tools including poses, breathing techniques, meditation and philosophy as well as dietary and lifestyle advice. Each group will tailor a therapeutic practice for their patient/client under Timothy's and his assistants’ supervision.
Three of the groups will present their cases in the final sessions of this training. Timothy will systemically go through each case and analyze if the recommended therapeutic practices should be adjusted in any way. Case presentations and their critique are the culmination of all the work of the week — and a high point for many attendees — so please don't leave early the final day unless you have to.
Past attendees have included healers, health care professionals, yoga therapists, yoga students and teachers, as well as those seeking yoga therapy for such conditions as back pain, cancer, arthritis, heart problems, autoimmune conditions, anxiety and depression.
January 20-24, 2025 (Registration closes January 16)
Monday to Friday, 9am-noon and 1:30pm to 4:30pm
Tuition: $810
Early Bird Discount: $720 by October 31, 2024
Email us if you are attending the IIYT Symposium for a special discounted rate of $650 by September 30, 2024, $720 thereafter
Timothy McCall, MD is the author of the Amazon #1 bestseller Yoga as Medicine. A revised and expanded edition of his book, Saving My Neck: A Doctor’s East/West Journey through Cancer, was just released on Kindle and Apple Books. For the last 27 years, he has been a scholar, teacher and practitioner of yoga therapy. Timothy has spent time with many of the world's leading yoga teachers and therapists including BKS Iyengar and TKV Desikachar. In 2005, he began his studies with a traditional Ayurvedic doctor, Chandukutty Vaidyar, and spent more than a year at his clinic in Kerala, India. Yoga Journal's medical editor for 18 years, Timothy is possibly the only person whose work has appeared in both The New England Journal of Medicine and Andrei Codrescu’s poetry journal, Exquisite Corpse. DrMcCall.com