Yoga-Informed Clinical Techniques for Reducing Anxiety and Depression
Join us for a 2-day Live Webinar
12 CE hours available for behavioral health clinicians
April 3 and 4, 2025 from 11am-6pm EDT
Anxiety and depression rates continue to surge worldwide, yet many clinicians struggle to find effective, evidence-informed mind-body strategies for their clients. This 12 CE-hour, online live webinar offers a transformative opportunity to integrate yoga-based techniques into your clinical practice, empowering you to support meaningful, long-lasting change.
Envision your sessions enriched by trauma-informed, neuroscience-backed practices that help your clients develop stronger self-regulation, enhanced vagal tone, and improved emotional resilience.
"Yoga-Informed Clinical Techniques for Reducing Anxiety and Depression" is one of three courses that compromise the Yoga-Based Clinical Interventions Training Certificate (YCIC) program. Enroll in the discounted full program and earn 24 total CEs and the YCIC.
Led by Kristine Weber, MA, C-IAYT, eRYT500, a global authority on the neuroscientific benefits of slow, mindful yoga, and Brett Sculthorp, LCSW, LCAS, CSACP, a licensed clinical social worker and veteran yoga practitioner, this course seamlessly connects clinical mental health interventions with the principles of Subtle® Yoga. Their combined decades of experience, research, and advocacy ensure you gain a well-rounded set of tools to address anxiety and depression through holistic mind-body techniques.
Using interactive lectures, experiential practice, and group discussion, the instructors will guide you through yoga-informed methods that complement forefront neuroscience and traditional psychotherapy. You will explore how purposeful movement, breathwork, and mindful attention foster a biopsychosocial-spiritual healing framework. By learning these trauma-sensitive and adaptable practices, you can more effectively help your clients calm their nervous systems, reduce stress, and build lasting emotional well-being.
Instructor
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.
Instructor
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, futures studies and other strategic planning methodologies. Also, the integration of local economics and public health.
In this course, you'll go beyond the basics:
- Holistic Integration: Master a set of yoga-based interventions that seamlessly fit into a variety of clinical and community care settings.
- Neuroscientific Insight: Translate cutting-edge neuroscience into practical techniques that promote self-regulation and stress management.
- Evidence-Based Practice: Access proven research on yoga’s efficacy for reducing anxiety and depression, supporting your clinical recommendations with confidence.
Why this course?
- Expert Guidance: Receive comprehensive instruction from Telehealth Certification Institute and leading yoga-therapy professionals with decades of combined experience.
- Innovative Approach: Benefit from a unique, integrative method that merges the Subtle® Yoga system with evidence-based clinical tools.
- Commitment to Excellence: Align with an organization whose core values—excellence, kindness, growth, collaboration, fidelity, integrity, innovation, and wellness—underscore every aspect of this training.
Learning Objectives:
- 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.
Join us in exploring these essential mind-body interventions so you can serve your clients with a richer, more adaptable clinical toolkit. Through this engaging and accessible approach, you can cultivate meaningful growth and relief for those seeking to overcome anxiety and depression.
Credit Hours: CEs provided with this live webinar include 12 continuing education hours of credit.
Counselors: Telehealth Certification Institute LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6693. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. #MHC-0048.
Marriage and Family Therapists: Many MFT licensing boards accept our courses or one of the approvals which we have from professional associations. You can check with your board to determine if this course would be accepted by your licensing board.
Social Workers: Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, #1609, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 05/02/2024 – 05/02/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 12 clinical continuing education credits.
Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers #SW-0435.
Addiction Professionals: This course has been approved by Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #193104, Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is responsible for all aspects of the programming.
Psychologists: Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Telehealth Certification Institute LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Psychologists #PSY-0128.
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