Medical Therapeutic Yoga Certification - LEVEL I

This is the new and revised version of the Level 1Medical Therapeutic Yoga Certification. If you purchased the original version on Embodia, you will be provided with free access to this updated course!

Overview 

Level I certification fully prepares you, the licensed PT, OT, or Athletic Trainer, to implement Medical Therapeutic Yoga & Integrative Lifestyle Medicine, into your clinical specialty. Other healthcare providers can also benefit from this course. You will learn:

• Trauma-informed principles of yoga and best-evidence care using Medical Therapeutic Yoga, plus 
• A complete system of Lifestyle Medicine care is urgently needed in our COVID-19 pandemic world right now. 
• How to determine root cause(s) of a condition in the context of Lifestyle Medicine using Biopsychosocial and Functional Movement Assessment(s).
• How to manage and/or lower your risk of burnout and compassion fatigue. 
• How to lower your overhead and fiscal strain, and shift toward telehealth.
• How to use pain science to get quicker and long-lasting results with patients and clients. 
• How to expand your services to offer telehealth, group, and more extensive in-person wellness services. 
• How to impact multi-morbidity through sleep, nutrition, mindful movement, environmental, and stress management intervention.
• Strategies that support optimal patient outcomes including mindfulness, health promotion, and sustained adherence through affecting behavioral change  

The course features interactive, online learning to complete case studies as well as critically analyzing physical yoga movement and respiratory therapies. 

All of the techniques you learn in this level can also be applied to telehealth and e-visits with patients and clients and are COVID and trauma-sensitive. 

When you sign up your class material is immediately available. You can complete it at your own pace. To complete the course, you will sign up for a total of 6 Live Coaching Calls with Living Well Institute faculty mentors. The Call Calendar link is included as a secure link inside the course materials. This will help you apply and assimilate the material in real-time! 

Video Introduction

What You Will Need to Participate:

• A dedicated computer that can run Zoom
• Hardwire internet (better than a wifi connection, which can be unstable, although using wifi is fine)
• Your yoga equipment - See the Welcome message near the start of the course lessons.
• It is recommended that you take The Integrative Lifestyle Medicine Certificate Modules 1 and 2 to get the most from this course. You can learn more and sign up on this page.
• Optional - a patient model that you can "teach" during the on-demand lab sessions (not the live interactive session) in order to practice your skills, although this isn't required. You can certainly practice the poses yourself.

Schedule

You will receive pre-recorded class materials on sign-up. You will join Ginger for a live session that you sign up for.

Learning Objectives 

The learning objectives for this course include:

• Apply the 10 MTY Precepts to your clinical practice in order to increase clinical efficacy and safety of yoga prescription as lifestyle medicine. 
• List the implications for use of MTY to impact health promotion and wellness practice. 
• Identify quantitative and qualitative outcome measures to use in MTY.
• Practice & demonstrate an understanding of the FMA algorithm in the context of Lifestyle Medicine evaluation, diagnosis, and prescription. 
• Demonstrate multidisciplinary knowledge of indications and contraindications for using the FMA for prescriptive movement and/or manual therapy. 
• Critically analyze physical yoga movement and respiratory therapies and their modifications in a lab setting. 
• Complete case studies via real-time assessment with peers using live model(s) to address complex medical histories and pain. 
• Demonstrate knowledge of guidelines to practice, teaching, manual cueing, and instruction in yoga postures, breathing techniques, mindfulness, and meditation practice.
• Integrate the biopsychosocial, lifestyle medicine-driven Vector Analysis into practice in a lab setting. 
• Describe the code of ethics for becoming a Lifestyle Medicine practitioner & certified Professional Yoga Therapist. 
• Discuss research and legal implications for licensed versus unlicensed use of yoga in the United States.
• Practice MTY to address multi-joint and systemic stabilization in a lab setting. 
• Practice safe polyvagal intervention in a lab setting.
• Critically analyze how myofascial and neurovascular impairment can be addressed through MTY. 
• Demonstrate competence with the use of yoga props and blanket folding. 
• List the tenets of including meditation and postural practice sequences in clinical practice. 
• Discuss business matrix analysis for health promotion and both cash-based and insurance-based practices. 
• Understand coding and billing practices for licensed providers. 
• Pass a quiz to demonstrate competency with Level I principles.

Recommended pre-requisite 

While it is not mandatory, it is recommended that you take Modules 1 and 2  of The Integrative Lifestyle Medicine (ILM) Certificate prior to starting the Medical Therapeutic Yoga (MTY) - Level I Certification. You can learn more about the ILM certificate here.

On checkout on this page you will be offered the option to purchase the MTY certificate or the ILM and MTY certificates together at a discounted rate.