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Radiant Wellness Yoga Therapy
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Yoga
Therapy is
The ancient science of yoga that focuses on
health and wellness at all levels of the person:
physical, psychological and spiritual. It brings
balance to the body and the mind through an
experiential understanding of the primary
intention of yoga: uniting mind and body, and
awakening of spirit, our essential nature.
INTRODUCTORY
WORKSHOPS TUITION:$36.00 3 CEU’s Each
INTRODUCTION
TO THERAPEUTIC YOGA FOR
DIGESTION
August 18, 2013 CANCELLED Sunday, 1:00pm -
4:00pm
INTRODUCTION TO THERAPEUTIC
YOGA FOR
RESPIRATORY CHALLENGES
Dear Joan
and Jim, I
can't thank you enough for all you
have done. This training has been
nothing but wonderful! The way you
welcome everyone with open arms. Not
only educating us on Yoga Therapy and
health, but about life and the
realities. I have
become a stronger and more confident
person since the training. Jim you
bring calmness to me. Joan you
are filled with joy.
Love, Emily
Owner-Mountain Yoga
Therapy
Frisco, CO
Dearest
Joan and Jim, as we move into fall I am fully
ready and prepared to teach my
first “therapeutic” workshop this
afternoon.I’m
dumbfounded to find myself calm,
confident and ready to pass on some
of the wonderful learning I have
experienced.Your
knowledgeable, supportive and
confidence-build teaching style, I
know has had a large part to play in
my transformation.I can’t
thank you both enough. I had so many
learning’s on and off the mat and
feel like I really experienced the
full benefits of yoga for the first
time in a very long time.
With heartfelt
gratitude and much love,
Denyse LeFever
former Defense
Department Business Executive
The
comprehensive program below is offered in 5
weekend modules (Friday night, Saturday and
Sunday).
Complete all five modules (85 hours) to
receive a concentration in Therapeutic Yoga
that will be
applied to your 500 hour certification.
Modules
can be taken individually for 17 CEU credits in
Yoga Therapeutics.
TUITION:$200.00
per 17 hour weekend module
$1,000.00
for the 85 hour program $900.00
if paid in full by April 3, 2013
Assessment
Tools and Therapeutic Yoga for Hypertension
and Cardiac Issues
DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED
Friday
night 7:00pm-9:00pm, Saturday & Sunday
8:30am-5:30pm
17 CEU’s
Yoga Therapy
differs from general yoga. Yoga Therapy
corrects blockages and imbalances that have
brought discomfort to your client. You will
learn and use assessment tools that will help
you develop individualized yoga programs for
your students:
Body
Scanning and Body Mapping
Whole
Person Wellness Survey
Yoga
Movement Assessment
Assessment
of Standing and Sitting Posture
Using
therapeutic yoga techniques, you will learn ways
to assist your clients in lowering hypertension
(HBP) and improve overall cardiac health.
Learn to teach your
clients:
helpful
lifestyle and diet modifications that will
lower HBP and correct heart issues.
yoga
postures, breathing techniques (pranayama) and
relaxation techniques to lower stress and
blood pressure.
to
practice meditation techniques to lower stress
and blood pressure.
hand
gestures (mudras) that affect different areas
of the chakra system to lower HBP and correct
heart issues.
Create
and learn to teach affirmations (sankalpas)
for HBP.
You will
learn to develop an 8 week program to relieve
HBP and improve cardiac health.
Friday night 7:00pm-9:00pm, Saturday &
Sunday 8:30am-5:30pm
17
CEU’s
Workshop will cover asthma, allergies,
COPD and other respiratory challenges.
Learn
anatomy and physiology of the respiratory
system
Learn
respiration from a yoga therapeutics
perspective and learn to teach your clients
yoga therapeutics that encourage/restore
healthy respiration.
Using the
Kosha Model, learn to teach your clients yoga
therapeutics that encourage and/or restore
healthy respiration or minimize further
deterioration.
Resource/share/practice/experience
and learn to teach your clients:
therapeutic
yoga warm-ups, postures that improve a variety
of respiratory issues including asthma and
COPD.
affirmations
to improve overall respiration.
breathing
techniques and Mudras that are effective in
addressing respiratory issues.
relaxation
techniques, guided imagery and other stress
management techniques that assist with healthy
respiration.
Friday
night 7:00pm-9:00pm, Saturday & Sunday
8:30am-5:30pm
17 CEU’s
Workshop will cover multiple sclerosis,
allergies, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus,
arthritis and fibromyalgia.
Practice
of therapeutic yoga can help patients
suffering from Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis
and other
autoimmune disorders to control and
successfully tolerate the disease.
Learn
common symptoms/issues for Parkinson’s, and
autoimmune disorders students.
Learn the
role of stress and its effect on Parkinson’s
and autoimmune diseases.
Learn to
teach your clients:
modifications
of yoga posturefor Parkinson’s, Multiple Sclerosis and
other autoimmune disorders
pranayamas,
mudras, chakra balancing, meditation
techniques to stimulate nervous system,
calm
the immune system and improve health.
Friday
night 7:00pm-9:00pm, Saturday & Sunday
8:30am-5:30pm
17
CEU’s
Workshop will cover scoliosis, whiplash,
spinal stenosis, weak lower
back.
We will explore
common back and neck issues including lower
back pain, whiplash, sciatica, weak lower
back, disc issues, swayback and rounded upper
back. You will learn to improve back and neck
health using yoga therapeutics.
Based on
the following learning you will be prepared to
develop therapeutic lessons for your clients:
Understand
common back and neck issues.
Understand
proper body alignment while sitting and
standing.
Increase
strength and flexibility for the spine and
neck.
Relax the
neck and back
Gain
mobility
Learn to
use core strength to support the lower back.
Learn
techniques to minimize chronic pain. Maintain
a pain free back and neck.
Nearly everyone
knows someone with scoliosis. In adults
scoliosis can produce symptoms of chronic back
and other pain, decreased lung capacity,
muscle tightness, fatigue, tingling and
numbness. Yoga is a powerful way to reduce
scoliosis symptoms. This program
includes therapeutic yoga techniques, anatomy
& physiology and methodology.
Based on
the following learning you will be prepared to
develop therapeutic lessons for your clients:
Anatomy
and understanding of the 4 major scoliosis
curves.
Basic
information about scoliosis
Yoga
Therapeutics for scoliosis- lengthening the
spine, stretching tight muscles,
strengthening
muscles that have become weak.
Creating
more balance and harmony in the body and mind
A MENTORED
EXPERIENCE:
Additional 15 CEUs can be earned by developing and
delivering an 8 week
therapeutic program that will be
critiqued/reviewed with your mentor.
TUITION: $175.00
Joan
E. Ryan
BS-Education, E-RYT 500, PYT1000, C Ht,
Reiki Master
Joan is a
Certified Professional Integrative Yoga
Therapist. Joan has a passion for developing and
teaching many different therapeutic yoga
programs and lessons addressing challenges such
as:anxiety
disorders, arthritis, asthma, chronic back pain,
COPD, depression, digestive disorders,
fibromyalgia, hypertension, irritable bowel
syndrome, Parkinson disease, pre & post
cancer and heart surgery and Multiple Sclerosis.
Over the
years she has had the opportunity to study with
some of the well known Yogis and meditation
teachers including: Joseph and Lillian LePage,
Kausthub Desikachar, Rodney Yee, Scott Blossom,
Doug Keller, Anodea Judith, Mukunda Stiles, Anne
Green & Todd Norian, Liz Koch, Thich Nhat
Hanh, Deepak Chopra, Phillip Moffitt, and Tara
Brach.
She also
offers Reiki Trainings and Treatments as part of
her Radiant Wellness practice.
Joan is
Program Director for a 200 hour Integrative Yoga
Therapy teacher training program. She also is a
mentor with the 1000 hour Integrative Yoga
Therapy program and adjunct faculty at Discovery
Yoga.
Joan is a
contributor to articles in nationally syndicated
magazines. She teaches workshops and programs
including “How to Thrive in a Stressed out
World” and “Happy Spine Yoga” for Radiant
Wellness at businesses, schools, conferences and
not-for-profit organizations.
She volunteers her
time for educational workshops and lectures at
hospitals, hospice, cancer and other support
groups. Joan and her husband enjoy the outdoors
hiking, birding, bicycling and participating in
silent meditation retreats.
