Professional Training

Yoga for Grief Relief Levels 1 & 2

In the current state of the field of Grief Counseling and Therapy little is dedicated to the body related symptoms of grief and how they can be addressed. The proposed model for a healthy resolution of the grieving process rests on the goal of ‘generating newer, healthier, attachments’. While this model offers certain relief to the pain associated with grieving, it also ensures future pain for those objects of new attachment will, inevitably, too disappear. Yoga’s philosophy and practice offers a different relationship to attachment and therefore to resolving suffering; its methods and concepts can be applied by any professional, regardless of credo or theoretical work frame. This training is suitable for Yoga Therapists and for Health and Mental Health Care professionals interested in adding Yogic techniques to their existing toolbox. It is also beneficial to those interested in deepening their personal knowledge of how yoga can aid the grieving process.  CEUs are available for MFT, ASWB, NBCC and BRN.

The upcoming 100 Hour PT L1 will be hybrid including a live 4 Day Retreat at the Sivananda Ashram (in case you have not participated in a retreat before) and three 21 Hours Modules conducted online through Zoom and 14 Online Hour Mentoring Program.

Retreat

Weekends

  • September 6 – 8, 2024 – Module 1
  • October 4 – 6, 2024 – Module 2
  • November 1 – 23, 2024 – Module 3

Mentoring

  • Dates TBA

Commitment to all weekends is required for registrations and attendance to all weekends is required for certification.

 

Objectives

  • Educate participants about Grief as a normal reaction and its transformation into a source of self-knowledge toward establishing a new identity
  • Learn grief related symptoms toward a differential diagnoses from Clinical Depression, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Anxiety Disorder
  • Identify grief’s psychoneurological basis
  • Differentiate between yoga therapy and allopathic therapeutic models
  • Compare grief as seen in Western and Eastern conceptualizations
  • Analyze Western and Eastern psychological therapeutic approaches to support the use of Yoga as a valid tool to aid grief
  • Compare Western and Eastern models of the psyche analyzing the physical and emotional relevance of the Heart Chakra in the grieving process
  • Differentiate attachment theories as seen in Western and Eastern conceptualizations
  • Learn, practice and guide the Yoga for Grief Relief Sadhana that presents six sections that aid the transformation of Grief into a resource of personal growth: Pranayama, Asana, Shatkarma, Relax, Sankalpa and Meditation
  • Learn the specific applications of the program according to selected areas of interest (Hyper/Hypoactive nature of the Symptoms – Addressing the Mind, Body and Spirit – Facilitating Grief through W. Worden’s Four Tasks of Mourning – Individual Vs. Group Sessions)
  • Offer methodological guidance to integrate the techniques into the client-professional interaction
  • Learn appropriate initial grief treatment guidelines
  • Identify the role of self knowledge regarding personal grief toward assuring ‘intervention’ versus ‘interference’
  • Educate professionals regarding Yoga Therapeutic ethical issues regarding grief

Subject Matter (Level 1)

  • Grief Overview
  • The Process of Transformation of grief into a new Identity
  • Psychoneurophysiology of grief
  • Attachment as seen in Western and Eastern conceptualizations
  • Reprograming the Mind
  • Five Causes of Suffering (Patanjali)
  • Intervention Vs. Interference
  • Inducing Practice toward active neuroplasticity
  • Sadhana Variations according to specific focus
  • Spiritual ethics in Yoga Therapy
  • Developing and appropriate referral system
  • Case Studies analysis
  • Sadhana practice and single technique practice

Flow of Presentation (Level 1)

  • Personal Retreat (23 Hours)
  • Theoretical lecture (20 Hours)
  • Development of Professional skills through interactive participative work (15 Hours)
  • Sadhana and single techniques’ practice time (10 Hours)
  • Group discussion (7 Hours)
  • Case Study (8 Hours)
  • Personal grief work (3 Hours)
  • Mentorship (14 Hours)

Subject Matter (Level 2)

  • Grief review
  • Second year of grief
  • Detached Attachment
  • The use of ritual
  • Mediators of Mourning
  • Psychoneurophysiology of grief (2)
  • Client progression (individual to group sessions)
  • Proper language skills toward normalization
  • Setting Yoga for Grief Relief retreats
  • Grief Yoga Therapist – Client contract
  • Interdisciplinary groups
  • Sadhana and single technique practice

Flow of Presentation (Level 2)

  • Theoretical lecture (9 Hours)
  • Development of Professional skills through interactive participative work (10 Hours)
  • Sadhana and single techniques’ practice time (10 Hours)
  • Group discussion (2 Hours)
  • Case Study (9 Hours)

Grading

  • Quiz
  • Case study presentation

Homework

  • Personal sadhana practice
  • Inducing clients’ practice

Prerequisites

  • Yoga for Grief Retreat (3 – 6 Days) required for Level 1
  • Minimum six months professional practice between Level 1 and 2

Mandatory reading sources (Level 1)

Mandatory reading sources (Level 2)

Suggested reading sources

The following information is for the Virtual Professional Training Level 1 March – September, 2021 Training

Provided that you have participated in the June 2024 retreat – that requires a separate registration – or one before that, three weekend training sessions are scheduled for:

  • August 18 – 20, 2023 – Module 1
  • September 22 – 24, 2023 – Module 2
  • October 27 – 29, 2023 – Module 3  

Tuition

  • Early Bird  US$ 2350 (plus 3% PayPal fee) before or on 7-28-2024
  • Full Price US$ 2500 (plus 3% PayPal fee) after that. No refunds given after 8-1-2024 unless PT is cancelled. The tuition does not include the Retreat – Registration to the full PT is required for enrollment –  Attendance to all weekends is required for certification.

All registrations are subject to cancellation on August 6 2024 if enrollment is not sufficient.


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