80 Hour Yoga Therapy Immersion with Arun Rana

Yoga Therapy empowers individuals to achieve improved overall health and wellness through carefully tailored yoga asanas appropriate for different body types in conjunction with self-care tools, anatomy know-how, pranayama and mindfulness practices, and lifestyle modifications. This field of yoga can help to reduce and/or manage a wide variety of ailments and health conditions, thus improving the recipient’s bodily functions. It is a fulfilling and well-designed practice aimed at embracing differences and deepening one’s yoga journey.

Yoga Therapy is the path that leads to healing as well as a way of reaching balance and harmony in mind and body through understanding yoga’s primary goal: awakening the Spirit – our essential nature.

Topics include:

• The multi-tiered benefits of Yoga Therapy
• Applied anatomy for therapeutic yoga
• Understanding postural assessment: therapy and practice
• Understanding athletic injuries, stress-related illnesses, wrist issues
• Application of tailored yoga practices to alleviate certain health conditions
• Developing a holistic model for therapeutic yoga, incorporating Vayus and Chakras
• Asana modifications and sequencing for different needs
• Applicable Pranayama and Meditation exercises
• Ailments of the lower back, tight hips, knee, shoulder, and neck problems (migraines, frozen shoulder and sciatica)
• How to plan a sequenced private / group class
• Concepts behind tailoring a unique therapy session for yourself or someone else

Open to all levels