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     The IIYT Foundations of Therapeutic Yoga for Health Care Providers program offers the health care provider with a foundational understanding of therapeutic yoga as both an implementation pathway and as a referral platform. Already working within their health care environments and specialties, the interested health care provider is well-positioned, informed, and experienced in the academic rigor and applications of techniques supported by scholarly evidence, foundational learning, simulated and onsite practicum experience.

 

​The graduate of this accredited program is able to recognize the role, benefit, value, and 
             virtue of therapeutic yoga specific to the health care environments in which they work.

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       The curriculum, both didactic and practicum, is to provide the student with an awareness, appreciation, and approach to the foundations of yoga philosophies, approaches to healing, adaptation, recovery, and loss. Familiarity with the yoga lineages and traditions, such as the Pancha Kosha model serves as this programs’ foundational philosophy of therapeutic yoga.

 

      Critical thinking is based on the concept of “diagnostic teaching” which attempts to discover what students think in relation to the problems at hand, i.e., what preconceptions exist (culturally, philosophically, clinically) that impact how the models of therapeutic yoga techniques influence health and healing.  he program provides students with an environment of vast educational opportunities including didactic presentations, classroom simulation, live-patient case studies, and interprofessional dialogue facilitated by representatives of numerous clinical departments.    

        First-hand familiarity with multimodal disciplines enables a collaborative system fostering appreciation of therapeutic yoga techniques as a part of multimodule allopathic healing systems that providing initiatives, communication and collaborative potential for clinical practices and research.   

       The program director has deep rooted foundational studies in the of yoga philosophy highlight adjunct self-applied techniques to help reverse disease and discomfort.  Key and core to the foundational principles of this program is in-depth dedication to the study of the foundational principals of yoga philosophy, approaches to patient-centered care, and healing.        

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         When considering adaptive physical, breathing and relaxation techniques inherent to therapeutic yoga the curriculum strongly emphasizes educational and experiential familiarity adhering to evidence-based research, ethical and clinical compatibly to and for allopathic environments.  

      The program director is singularly responsible for the delivery of the curriculum both didactic and practicum. Both didactic and practicum aspects of the program provide the student with a foundational approach to yoga philosophies, approaches to healing, adaptation, recovery, and loss. Familiarity with the yoga lineages and traditions, such as the Pancha Kosha model serves as this programs’ foundational philosophy of therapeutic yoga. The graduate can demonstrate a familiarity of the yoga philosophies of health and healing and demonstrate a familiarity with the research, ethics, techniques, methodologies, and practical applications as they may apply to the multi-module applications of therapeutic yoga within clinical environments. This includes short-and long-term benefits that embrace a wellness component serving those who wish to incorporate, or refer, therapeutic yoga into their ongoing self-care for healing and health management systems as an adaptive modality among existing allopathic environments. 

        Supervised learning activities include classroom simulations, inter and cross-professional dialogue, and case study presentations including the potential for one-on-one out-patient physician referred, small group/ symptom specific therapeutic yoga settings and in-patient/bedside therapeutic yoga sessions. In addition, students in the IIYT Foundations of Therapeutic yoga for Health Care Providers program receive training in Electronic Medical Record (EMR).  All mentored therapeutic yoga clinical encounters and patient documentation are HIPAA/COVID compliant.

      The curriculum maintains adherence to standard research protocols, clinical compatibly, patient assessment and recording. The IIYT adjunct faculty of MDs, PhDs and Mental Health Professionals offer relevant anatomy and pathophysiology instruction.  Equal emphasis includes foundational study of the ethical principles and philosophical aspects of yoga that inform the structure of the program. As such, the graduate can implement patient provided intake histories, in-office intake assessments, generation of the treatment plan, patient documentation, and the exit strategies all firmly within the practical and theoretical scope of therapeutic yoga practice. The program provides students with an environment of vast educational opportunities including a faculty drawn from numerous clinical departments. Additional benefits involve clinical rotations, interdisciplinary didactics for medical and therapeutic yoga students and the potential for research and employment opportunities within the hospital system. First-hand familiarity with multimodal disciplines enables a collaborative, patient centered, self-managing system for therapeutic yoga techniques and allopathic healing systems that provides initiatives, communication and collaborative potential for clinical practices and research.  Didactic study offers foundational instruction in the applications of clinical therapeutic yoga. The curriculum is geared towards advanced methodology and techniques of therapeutic yoga, anatomy, and physiology for symptom specific conditions as well as an overview of yoga literature, philosophy, ethics, and research.  Practicum clinical experience in the applications of therapeutic yoga in health care environments through an academically based within a teaching hospital. The program emphasizes a foundational familiarity with how the methodologies that encourage therapeutic yoga for research and funding may be implemented or referred.

     Students attend/participate/present at the annual IIYT Symposium on Advancements in Yoga Therapy and Research meeting, a CME (application in process as at submission date of this QHP IAYT accreditation application), IAYT and YA CE approved event.

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For more information, please contact:
Veronica Zador, B.Sc., C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, PRYT, YACEP

Program Director International Institute of Yoga Therapy

Standard Faculty Adjunct Instructor in Family Medicine, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine

P: 248-320-5678
E. vzador@meetingpro.net / E. vzador@iiyogatherapy.com / W. www.iiyogatherapy.com