Yoga for Mood Management: LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training July 8-15, 2018 Amy Weintraub and Rose Kress

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1 Yoga for Mood Management: LifeForce Yoga Practitioner Training July 8-15, 2018 Amy Weintraub and Rose Kress Learn an evidence-based yoga protocol to help students and clients focus, relax, and have greater access to feeling states. This program interweaves ancient yogic wisdom with current findings in neurobiology. Yoga teachers and mental-health professionals will learn strategies appropriate for a clinical setting that can safely release chronically held physical tension and repressed emotion. In the process of learning yogic techniques to help clients manage their moods and increase self-efficacy, you will also be practicing tools for self-care. Design one-on-one yoga sessions for dysthymia (chronic depression), anxiety-based depression and PTSD Learn breathing and meditation practices for addressing dysthymia and anxiety-based depression Add somatic strategies to your clinical practice and yoga classes that increase your clients self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-esteem, and ability to cope Experience techniques you can teach your clients and students to do at home to help them self-regulate You will take home tools and confidence for working with individuals suffering from depression and anxiety. Overall Purpose/Goal of Program Through yoga practice, discussion, and practice teaching sessions you will integrate evidence-based yoga skills for patient/client self-regulation that are appropriate in a clinical healthcare setting. The target professional audience is for novice and experience practitioners in the fields of yoga, medical and mental-health, and massage therapy.

2 PROGRAM SCHEDULE Sunday July 8 7:30 9:30 pm Program Session 1. Describe how to make use of Yogic strategies to create a safe container for on-going therapeutic work with clients/patients. 2. Explain and lead patients/clients/workshop participants in trust-building Yogic exercises to facilitate relatedness/community/safety in groups and workshops. 3. Describe and lead Yogic tools to foster the therapeutic alliance and client self-acceptance. Monday July 9 1. Explain, demonstrate and lead patients/clients through evidence-based energizing breathing practices that stimulate the sympathetic nervous system. 2. Explain, demonstrate and lead patients/clients through evidence-based energizing breathing practices that increase heart rate variability (HRV) and elevate mood. 3. Describe the contraindications and precautions for bipolar disorder 1 and high states of anxiety of kriya breathing practices. 1. Identify Principles of Yoga that pertain to emotional balance and mood regulation. 2. Describe an overview of Yogic strategies for maintaining optimum mental health. 3. Define the three yogic philosophical principles that support optimum mental health and compare these principles to Western concepts of mental illness/health. 1. Describe how to incorporate and integrate the use of audible toning as a calming technique to teach patients/clients to self-soothe and selfregulate. 2. Describe how to incorporate and integrate yogic breathing practices 3. Explain, demonstrate and lead simple hand gestures to clients that activate the sympathetic nervous system and elevate mood. (Not eligible for psych CE credit.)

3 Tuesday July Explain, demonstrate and lead patients/clients through evidence-based calming breathing practices that lower cortisol levels and stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system. (CONT D) 2. Explain, demonstrate and lead patients/clients through evidence-based movements that stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system. 3. Practice evidence meditation techniques to increase focus and attention. 1. Explain, demonstrate and lead patients/clients through evidence-based calming breathing practices that lower cortisol levels and stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system (CONT D) 2. Explain, demonstrate and lead patients/clients through evidence-based energizing breathing practices that increase heart rate variability (HRV) and elevate mood (CONT D) 3. Practice Yoga Techniques (CONT D) 4. Describe the contraindications and precautions for bipolar disorder 1 and high states of anxiety of kriya breathing practices (CONT D) 1. Explain, demonstrate and lead patients/clients through evidence-based calming breathing practices that lower cortisol levels and stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system. (CONT D) 2. Practice guiding participants in teaching each other as though teaching a patient/client. (CONT D) 3. Summarize the evidence-based biochemical changes in the brain as a result of Yoga and meditation so as to explain to patients/clients. 4. Summarize the evidence for the benefits of Yoga as shown in psychosocial measurements. 5. Describe how to find and stay up-to-date with current research on Yoga and mental health.

4 Wednesday July Practice Yoga Techniques 2. Explain, demonstrate and lead patients/clients through evidence-based practices that increase oxytocin levels 3. Explain, demonstrate and lead patients/clients through evidence-based practice yogic breathing techniques in a group setting. 1. Recognize and identify predominate mood through analysis of current breathing pattern. 2. Describe and practice three Yogic breaths and two simple meditation techniques to clear the mind and lift the mood. 3. Case Studies, demos of 2 and Explain and demonstrate a yoga strategy for working with negative self-talk 2. Practice by guiding participants through a teaching as though leading a client 3. Explain, demonstrate, and lead clients through yoga techniques with breath and sound. 7:30 9:00 pm Program Session 1. Recognize and practice yoga techniques and interventions for mood management in a Clinical Setting 2. Recognize and practice yoga techniques and interventions for mood management in a yoga Setting 3. Case Studies

5 Thursday July Explain, demonstrate and lead patients/clients toning practices that stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system. 2. Explain, demonstrate and lead patients/clients through hand gestures within a meditation practice to increase focus and attention span. (Not eligible for Psych CE credit) 1. Identify, demonstrate and lead a quick yogic intervention for a panic attack. 2. Identify & practice a yoga protocol for patients/clients suffering from acute post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). 3. Describe and practice an evidence-based Yoga protocol for the treatment of anxiety. 1. Describe and practice a non-dual strategy for negative self-talk (CONT D) 2. Practice by guiding participants through teaching each other as though teaching a patient/client.(cont D) 3. Explain, demonstrate, and lead patients/clients through a yoga practice that includes sound as a practice to stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system. Friday July Explain, demonstrate and lead patients/clients through yoga movements appropriate in trauma settings. 2. Explain and lead an evidence based yoga nidra practice appropriate in trauma settings. 3. Describe the contraindications and precautions for post-traumatic stress disorder

6 Friday July 13 (continued) 1. Explain what happens in the brain during shock trauma and effect on neurochemistry and limbic structures that impact behavior 2. Explain what happens in the brain during complex trauma and effect on limbic structures and brain development and future reactivity and behavior. 3. Case studies and clinical application of understanding brain science 1. Identify and practice a yoga protocol (body sensing yoga; therapeutic long holding) for patients/clients with a history of trauma who are not currently having nightmares, flashbacks or other symptoms of acute PTSD. 2. Explain precautions and contraindications of certain yogic strategies for PTSD. Saturday July Explain, demonstrate and lead patients/clients through yoga practices designed for a mixed group of people suffering from depression and anxiety. 2. Explain, demonstrate and lead patients/clients through a visualization and meditation practice for anxiety (kirtan kriya). 1. Practice with participants through teaching each other the yoga techniques they have learned, role playing clients for each other. 2. describe and practice three Yogic breaths and a simple meditation to calm and focus the anxious mind. 3. Describe and practice three Yogic breaths and two simple meditation techniques to clear the mind and balance the mood.

7 Saturday July 14 (continued) 1. Recognize application and scope of practice from a yoga perspective. 2. Recognize the techniques appropriate for a clinical practice, those appropriate in a workshop setting by a mental health or medical professional, and those best lead by a qualified Yoga teacher or Yoga therapist. Yoga Perspective, guidelines, ethics, certification. 3. Discuss yoga research protocols available for use by healthcare professionals 4. Explain yoga measurements for assessing mood 5. Explain when and how to refer 6. Explain how to develop a team to support your client/patient 7. Recognize application and scope of practice from a healthcare perspective 8. Explain the techniques appropriate for a clinical practice, those appropriate in a workshop setting by a mental health or medical professional, and those best lead by a qualified Yoga teacher or Yoga therapist. 9. Summarize Healthcare Perspective, guidelines, ethics, certification, liability issues Sunday July 15 6:30 8:00am Program Session 1. Explain, demonstrate and practice movement appropriate for a clinical setting. 2. Explain, demonstrate and practice meditation technique with sound appropriate for a clinical setting. 9:30 11:30 am Program Session Describe and practice centering.

8 Psychology 15 CE Credits Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health maintains responsibility for this program and its content. All programs eligible for Psychology CE credits are given full credit (excluding breaks/meals) unless otherwise noted in the schedule above. CE credits for psychologists are only available for workshops or sessions that are at least one hour in length. As an APA-approved sponsor of continuing education, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health is committed to the identification and resolution of potential conflicts of interest in the planning, promotion, delivery, and evaluation of continuing education. Consistent with concepts outlined in the APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, potential conflicts of interest occur when an individual assumes a professional role in the planning, promotion, delivery, or evaluation of continuing education where personal, professional, legal, financial, or other interests could reasonably be expected to impair his or her objectivity, competence, or effectiveness. (Note All programs indicating the availability of psychology CE credits have been reviewed to be free of any potential conflict of interest and/or commercial support unless otherwise noted on this program's webpage.) Social Work 49.5 CE Credits Programs have been approved for Category 1 Continuing Education hours for relicensure, in accordance with 258 CMR through the collaborative of NASW and the Boston College and Simmons College Schools of Social Work. Kripalu is not recognized by the state of New York to offer continuing education credits to social workers through the Collaborative of NASW-MA Chapter and the Boston College and Simmons College Schools of Social Work. Yoga 49 CE Credits Continuing Education credits are granted in accordance with Yoga Alliance standards. See Yogaalliance.org for more information. All hours are contact hours. For additional CE information, visit kripalu.org/cecredits.

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