Yoga For The Mind

Yoga for the Mind 2021

Yoga for the Mind is an online 5-month program that will provide you a certification for integrating yoga into your mental health work, or integrating an understanding of mental health into how you teach yoga. Graduates of the certification program,

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Course curriculum

1. A Welcome Message from Betsy...
2. How to use this course
3. Before we begin please take this short survey so we know more about you....
4. Setting Sacred Space & Course Ground Rules
5. A Word about Confidentiality - PLEASE READ
6. Yoga For The Mind Schedule + All Links for Duration of the Course
1. Links for Webinars & Yoga Classes
1. Recommended Reading List
1. Program Covers
1. Week 1 Lecture Video: Human-Higher Self Continuum, Kosha Model - 2/1/21
2. Week 1 Handouts
3. Week 1 Lecture Slides - 2/1/21
4. Week 1 Q & A Phone Call - 2/4/21 (Resistance/Persistence, Shadow & Pain Body, Ego Formation)
5. Week 1 Q & A Handout (Tools for Law of Least Effort) - 2/4/21
6. Week 2 Lecture: Anamaya Kosha & The Mind Body Connection - 2/8/21
7. Week 2 Handouts - 2/8/21
8. Week 2 Lecture Slides - 2/8/21
9. Week 2 Q & A - 2/11/21 (Collective Depression in COVID, Talking to Patients about Mind-body in Medical Practice, & More!)
10. Week 2 Q & A Handout (Finding a Balance: Masculine & Feminine Principles) - 2/11/21
11. A Different Perspective on Masculine/Feminine Energy: Yin/Yang Awareness
12. Week 3 Lecture: Awakening the Inner Healer, Doshas, 6 Pillars of Health - 2/15/21
13. Week 3: Awakening Your Inner Healer Meditation - 2/15/21
14. Week 3 Handouts - 2/15/21
15. Week 3 Lecture Slides - 2/15/21
16. Week 3 BONUS: Vata Yoga Practice
17. Week 3 BONUS: Pitta Yoga Practice
18. Week 3 BONUS: Kapha Yoga Practice
19. Week 3 Q & A - 2/18/21
20. Week 3 Q & A Handout - Ushas Mudra & 5 Element Meditation Script
21. Week 4 - Discussion with Dr. Matt Taylor on Pain - 2/22/21
22. Week 4 - Handouts
23. Week 4 Q & A - 2/25/21
1. Week 5 Lecture: Your Energy Body, The Nadis, Emotion, The Energy of Places & People, The Empath - 3/2/21
2. Week 5 Handout & Additional Recordings (61 Points) - 3/1/21
3. Slides Week 5 - 3/1/21
4. Week 5 Q & A: Feeling Feelings, Empaths, Cutting Cords - 3/4/21
5. Cord Cutting Meditation - 3/4/21
6. Week 6 Lecture: Trauma and Its Effects on The Body, Nervous System, Brain, Relationships & Posture, Trauma Sensitive Yoga - 3/8/21
7. Week 6 Handouts + Slides - 3/8/21
8. The 36 Questions by Arthur Aron
9. Week 6 Q & A: Tolerating the Consequences of Being Yourself, Working with Trauma in the Body, Longhaul COVID & Breath work, Breath Practice
10. Guided Meditation on Listening to Constrictions in the Body
11. Week 7 Lecture: Chakras - 3/22/21
12. Week 7 Handouts + Slides: 3/22/21
13. Week 7 Q & A: Chakra Measurements, Fat around Chakras, Energy module vs Physical Module
14. Distance Healing: How/Why Does it Work?
15. Week 8 Lecture: Pranayama & Breath - 3/29/21
16. Week 8 Handouts + Slides: 3/29/21
17. Week 8 Q & A: Nirvana vs Resistance in the Practice, Challenges with Breath Practices, Chakras & Injuries, Chakra Clearing Meditation with Mudras & Chanting
18. Week 8 Practice: Chakra Clearing Meditation with Mudras & Chanting (the last 20 minutes of class)
1. Week 9 Lecture: The Golden Buddha, Interview with Amy Weintraub, Intro to Manomaya Kosha - 4/5/21
2. Week 9 Handouts - 4/5/21
3. Week 9 Q & A - Self Sabotage, Inner Narrators, The 6 Impediments on the Yogic Path, The Surrender Experience, Stair Step Breath - 4/8/21
4. Week 10 Lecture: Which Wolf do you feed? Your story. Default Mode Network. Samskara. The Malas. Neuroplasticity. - 4/12/21
5. Week 10 Handouts - 4/12/21
6. Week 10 Q & A - Can you believe your beliefs? Loving kindness Meditation - 4/15/21
7. Week 11 Lecture: Meditation - 4/19/21
8. Week 11 Handouts - 4/19/21
9. Week 11 Q & A: Why meditate? Resistance to Meditation, Prayer vs Meditation, Practice: Mountain Meditation - 4/22/21
10. Week 11 Mountain Meditation Script by Jon Kabat Zinn
11. Week 12 Lecture: Review of Manomaya Kosha, The Science of Happiness & Positivity
12. Week 12 Handouts - 4/26/21
13. Week 12 Q & A - 4/29/21 - Breaking out of Listener Role, Allowing more Vulnerability, Wrapping Hard Stuff with a Mantra, Dance & Horse Therapy, Art Therapy with Strength Finder
1. Week 13 Lecture 5/3/21: Intro to Vijnanamaya Kosha - the Wise Mind
2. Week 13 Handouts - 5/3/21
3. Week 13 Q & A - 4/6/21; Mudras, How to Share Path of Awakening with others, Interconnectivity in an Airport, Dream Analysis
4. Week 14 Handouts - 5/10/21
5. Week 14 - Dharma & Hypnosis - 5/10/21
6. Week 14 Hypnosis Audio Recording
7. Week 14 Q & A: Dharma, You are not your thoughts, RUMI Guest House, Moving from "I'm a Failure" to "I'm a Force"
8. Week 15 Yoga Nidra with guest Fannie Hungerford - 5/17/21
9. Week 15 Handouts - 5/20/21
10. Week 15 Q & A - Yoga Nidra Experiences, Savsana vs Nidra, Showing Our Wild Side - 5/20/21
11. Week 16 Handouts - 5/24/21
12. Week 16 Lecture - Myths, Archetypes, Goddesses - 5/24/21
13. Week 16 Q & A - Archetypes, The Lady in White, The Good Girl, The Queen - 5/27/21
1. Week 17 - Intro to Anandamaya Kosha + Bliss Practice - 5/31/21
2. Week 17 Handouts - 5/31/21
3. Week 17 Q & A - Why do we resist bliss? Mind-Body Symbolism of Shoulders & Neck, Body Dysmorphia, Why Worry is the Worst Thing You can Do for a Person
4. Week 18 - Review of Module 1 & 2, Identity Evolution, The Science of Behavior Change
5. Week 18 Handouts - 6/7/21
6. Week 18 - Meditation on Who You Want to Become
7. Week 18 Q & A -6/10/21
8. Week 19 Guest Dr Candida Maurer - The Bliss Body - 6/16/21
9. Week 19 Handouts - 6/16/21
10. Week 19 - Q & A- Boundaries for the Empath, Metaphor of Tango, Feeling your Feelings (esp Anger), Numerology - 6/19/21
11. Week 20 Lecture - Review of Module 3, 4 & 5, Case studies of Integrating Psychology + Yoga, The Power of Mind Body Connection
12. Week 20 Handouts & Slides
13. Week 20 Q & A - A Conversation on Dharma, Chakras, Patriarchy, Empaths, Non-Dualism, Judgment vs Discernment, Trauma - 6/24/21
1. BONUS Call on Integrating Yoga + Psychotherapy - 9/13/21
2. Handouts & Slides on Integrating Yoga into Psychotherapy
1. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? - 2/2/21
2. Law of Least Effort - 2/4/21
3. You Are A Singing Bowl - 2/6/21
4. Your Body As A Laboratory - 2/9/21
5. Masculine & Feminine Principles- 2/11
6. Body Prayer- Body Meditation 2/13
7. Stimulation in the Kapha Season-2/16
8. Bright body reset with Twists- 2/18
9. Clearing Body- 2/20
10. Paradox; working with the Opposites-2/23
11. Ahimsa- Mind Body Discipline; heart opening-2/25
12. Re-Incorporation: The Final Leg of the Hero's Journey- 2/26
13. Unleashing more Prana- 3/2
14. Spring Cleaning/ Purifying- 3/4
15. Prana- the internal energy 3/9
16. Psoas - 3/11
17. Tolerance and truth - 3/13
18. HOPE 3/20
19. Moving through the Chakras- 3/23
20. Connect to the BODY - 3/25
21. Opening pelvis, heart, and throat- 3/27
22. Clear and Lighten- Shift with Breath 3/30
23. Connecting to the Breath- 4/1
24. Finding your Center -4/3
25. tapas, self study & surrender- 4/6
26. Connect to Self- 4/8
27. Lighten Up- 4/10
28. Working through the Malas 4/13
29. Connect to Life- 4/15
30. Gratitude & Contentment -4/17
31. Crossing the Abyss as a Community- 4/20
32. Connect to the Planet- 4/22
33. Chakra Flow through Whole Body- 4/24
34. Grounding in Receptivity- 4/27
35. Connect to Others- 4/29
36. Beltane: Enhance Joy with 2nd 3rd Chakras -5/1
37. Wisdom Body through Discernment- 5/4
38. Connect to our Heart- 5/6
39. True Namaste by acknowledging pain & Looking for the Good -5/8
40. Remembering who we are through Discernment- 5/11
41. Connect to Beauty- 5/13
42. You are the Sky; Vast- 5/15
43. Do Less, Accomplish More- 5/18
44. Connect to our Wildness- 5/20
45. Patience & Landing with our Otherness- 5/22
46. Downward Force with a Full Moon- 5/25
47. Connect to Social Activism- 5/27
48. Realign the body and mind- 5/29
49. Ahimsa -6/1
50. Satya- 6/8
51. Asteya-6/15
52. The Witness- 6/19
53. Brahmacharya- 6/22
54. Aparigraha -6/29
1. Final Test

About this course

$2,995.00
146 lessons
143.5 hours of video content

Yoga for the Mind 2021

Course curriculum

Welcome to Yoga For The Mind!

Links for Webinars & Yoga Classes

Yoga For The Mind Resources

How is the curriculum organized?

Module 1: Introduction To Kosha Model & Annamaya Kosha (THE BODY)

Module 2: Pranamaya Kosha (THE ENERGY BODY)

Module 3: Manomaya Kosha (THE MENTAL BODY)

Module 4: Vijnanamaya Kosha (THE WISDOM BODY)

Module 5: Anandamaya Kosha (THE BLISS BODY)

BONUS Module 6 - Practice Integration, Practice Models, Treatment Plans, Informed Consent

Yoga Classes

Final Certification Exam

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