Yoga-Based Clinical Interventions Certificate
Enroll in the Online Self-Study Certificate Program and complete the training on your own schedule.
24 CEs available for behavioral health clinicians.
Clinicians today are witnessing the toll of a disconnected, overstimulated world—clients are overwhelmed, anxious, and often carrying unresolved trauma that talk therapy alone can’t reach. This certificate program offers practical, yoga-based tools to help clients not just feel better in the moment, but reclaim safety, connection, and self-regulation over time.
Whether you’re looking to enhance clinical outcomes, deepen client engagement, or support your own well-being, this comprehensive program offers a powerful, practical path forward.
Get certified in yoga-informed care and help clients reclaim safety and connection.
$595 for 3 courses · 24 CE hours · save $125 today
Kristine Weber, MA, C-IAYT, eRYT500, and Brett Sculthorp, LCSW, LCAS, CPS, RYT 200, are internationally recognized experts in integrating yoga into mental health care. With decades of combined experience in clinical practice, trauma treatment, and yoga education, they bring a wealth of insight, compassion, and practical application to this training.
Their Subtle® Yoga approach is rooted in neuroscience, trauma theory, and ethical practice. Through brief interventions and accessible yoga tools, they provide a trauma-informed, person-centered framework that respects individual beliefs, physical abilities, and clinical contexts.
This self-paced certificate program combines three foundational courses—Integrating Accessible Yoga Techniques into Brief Therapeutic Interventions, Trauma-Informed Accessible Yoga Practices for Clinicians, and Yoga-Informed Clinical Techniques for Reducing Anxiety and Depression—to explore yoga's applications for self-regulation, clinician self-care, trauma recovery, and mood support. Topics include the eight limbs of yoga, polyvagal theory, yoga-based neuroplasticity, Subtle® Yoga principles, breathwork, meditation, and brief movement interventions tailored for clinical use.
Instructor
Brett Sculthorp, LCSW LCAS CPS RYT 200,
Brett Sculthorp 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, futures studies and other strategic planning methodologies. Also, the integration of local economics and public health.
Instructor
Kristine Weber, MA, C-IAYT, eRYT500
Kristine Weber 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.
Key Takeaways:
- Practical Integration: Learn brief, research-supported yoga practices to incorporate into individual and group therapy sessions for anxiety, depression, and trauma.
- Trauma-Informed Application: Understand how yoga supports nervous system regulation in trauma-affected clients through top-down and bottom-up strategies.
- Clinician-Centered Care: Explore how ethical engagement, spiritual reflection, and yoga-based self-care practices sustain clinician well-being and enhance therapeutic presence.
Why this certificate program?
- Holistic and Research-Informed: Combines neuroscience, trauma theory, and ancient wisdom to offer an integrated, science-backed clinical approach.
- Expert-Led Training: Taught by two highly respected leaders in yoga therapy and mental health with decades of clinical and teaching experience.
- Clinically Relevant and Immediately Applicable: Designed for behavioral health clinicians seeking effective, respectful, and accessible tools to support diverse client needs.
Courses Included and Learning Objectives:
Integrating Accessible Yoga Techniques into Brief Therapeutic Interventions:
- 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.
Trauma-Informed Accessible Yoga Practices for Clinicians: Enhancing Recovery Through Nervous System Regulation:
- Describe at least three principles of how to incorporate trauma-informed yoga into clinical practice with diverse clients with various belief systems and a range of movement abilities.
- Explain a rationale for using yoga for clinician self-care to maintain optimal awareness that is congruent with the highest ethical standards of clinical practice.
- Explain the neuroscience of yoga for nervous system regulation and reducing trauma symptoms.
- Demonstrate at least five postures, breathing, and meditation practices which may be integrated into individual and group interventions.
Yoga-Informed Clinical Techniques for Reducing Anxiety and Depression:
- Describe the historical and cultural context of yoga and how this integrates with and complements forefront neuroscience.
- List and understand the basic principles behind each of the eight limbs of yoga.
- Compile at least 6 key principles of why and how to integrate yoga into a clinical practice.
- List key neuroscientific principles of how yoga promotes mental health.
- Identify the principles of yoga based neuroplasticity and self-regulation that support stress management.
- Demonstrate at least six brief energizing and grounding yoga practices that can be safely applied in clinical intervention.
- Demonstrate the principles and goals of a mantra based meditation practice.
- Identify at least two research articles on the efficacy of yoga for managing anxiety and depression.
Whether you’re aiming to expand your therapeutic toolkit or explore a more embodied, integrative approach to healing, this program offers a practical path forward rooted in research and compassion.
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This is a non-interactive, self-study program. It consists of over 24 hours of video instruction, and a post-tests.
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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:
Directions for completing a course can be found by clicking here.
This program was recorded March 6, March 7, April 3 and April 4, 2025.
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