Increasingly, clients are seeking out mind-body approaches to their mental health challenges; however, they often don’t know how to learn these modalities, who to trust to teach them, and they are afraid of practices like yoga because it seems like it’s only for very flexible, elite athletes. However, when clients learn these practices from a trusted clinician, they are more likely to engage in them regularly and improve outcomes.
This course is for clinicians who want to stay up to date with cutting-edge treatment strategies by providing both cognitive and somatic approaches to help their clients achieve the best mental health outcomes possible. While somatic techniques are now considered an essential part of psychotherapy, this course will give you a framework to understand and integrate both somatic and cognitive approaches.
A clinician will increase knowledge, skills, and abilities in utilizing mind-body practices with diverse clients. The Subtle® Yoga system prevents clients with a trauma-informed biopsychosocial-spiritual system of practices for calming the nervous system, supporting affect regulation, reducing stress, and improving psychological strength and flexibility. Clients develop rapport with and come to trust their clinicians. When clinicians provide clients with mind-body practices in the form of brief interventions and/or “homework,” client outcomes improve.
Learning Objectives:
- List at least 6 key principles of why and how to integrate yoga into a clinical practice.
- Demonstrate at least five postures, breathing, and meditation practices which may be integrated into individual and group interventions to help mitigate symptoms of depression and anxiety.
- Describe the top-down and bottom-up neurobiological basis for the effectiveness of yoga interventions.
- Identify at least two research articles on the efficacy of yoga brief interventions.
Availability: From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework.
Who Should Attend: This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.
Teaching Methods: This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.
How to Attend: Instructions for attending and completing a course can be found here.
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Kristine Weber, MA, C-IAYT, eRYT500
Kristine Weber, MA, C-IAYT, eRYT500 is a leading world authority on the neuroscientific benefits of slow, mindful yoga and an advocate for the use of these practices as an integral part of the solution to the healthcare crisis. She is leading the charge to get slow, mindful practices to people who desperately need them through her Subtle® Yoga Revolution series of online courses and trainings for yoga teachers - which have been praised by thousands all over the world. She is the director of the Subtle® Yoga Teacher Training for Behavioral Health Professionals program at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Health Sciences at MAHEC and the Yoga Therapy representative on the Integrative Health Policy Consortium in Washington D.C., where she advocates for the integration of yoga into the healthcare system.
She serves on the Yoga Advisory Council of the Alzheimer’s Research and Prevention Foundation. Kristine has been an avid student of yoga since 1989, teaching yoga since 1995, and training teachers since 2003. She presents workshops and trainings internationally and is frequently invited to speak about yoga at healthcare conferences and on podcasts. She is the author of Healing Self Massage and has published numerous articles. Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Yoga Therapy Today, YogaU, Redbook, BodySense, Women's World, Natural Health, and Lifetime TV. She is currently conducting research on Subtle® Yoga for addiction recovery.
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Brett Sculthorp LCSW, LCAS, CSACP
Brett Sculthorp, LCSW LCAS CPS RYT 200, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist, a Certified Prevention Specialist, and a Registered Yoga Teacher at the 200-hour level. He has been a yoga and meditation for over 35 years and has been collaborating with Kristine in creating Subtle Yoga trainings for 20 years. In his private practice, Brett works with individuals, couples, and groups with a clinical focus on trauma. In addition to the physical, psychological, and spiritual practices of the yoga tradition, Brett utilizes the therapeutic modalities of Brainspotting, ego state work, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Trauma Release Exercises, and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.
Brett is currently writing a book about Yoga Psychology with Kristine. Brett’s writing has been featured in Yoga Therapy in Practice, and he co-wrote a paper that was presented at the XV World Futures Studies Federation Conference. Brett’s substance use prevention work has focused on community building, including educating about the social determinants of health, future studies, and other strategic planning methodologies. Also, the integration of local economics and public health.
Disclosure Statement: The instructor for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.
Credit Hours: This course consists of 6 continuing education hours of credit.
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This is a non-interactive, self-study course.
