Fewer than half the cells in our bodies are human. We are home to an astounding 39 trillion non-human microbes. What’s more, our microbiome hosts more genes than there are observable stars in the universe. Understanding how our microbiome works, the principles that power it, and the way it shapes us can boost our health […]
Course Category: Masterclass
Empathic Regulation for Health Professionals: Boundaries, Balance, & Embodiment
Do you often wonder which emotions are yours, and which belong to someone else? When people you care about are hurting, do you feel their pain so deeply that it’s hard to separate—even after they’re out of crisis mode? In relationships, do you donate so much of your own natural resources that you suffer from […]
Seasonal Affective Disorder: Emerging Research and Treatment
Novel and integrative approaches to depression, inflammation, and light-dark cycles reveal an interactive effect with startling implications for health, well-being, and longevity. We have biological clocks in our brains and bodies. Knowing how these clocks function and how they impact our health points us to powerful methods for healing. This class examines: This Masterclass focuses […]
The Therapeutic Alliance + the Inflammatory Effects of Projective Identification
Projective Identification is a psychological defense mechanism in which sensations and emotions so intense as to unravel someone- think rage, shame, despair, envy, or self-hatred- are forced into someone else (a therapist, teacher, healer, or loved one) without warning or awareness. Unprocessed, it can leave us metabolizing other people’s most difficult feelings and sensations- often […]
Neurodiversity + Neurodivergence: Science, Psychology, Social Context, & Practical Tools
This course provides yoga therapists with key information from emerging areas of biomedical research to help determine additional techniques for working with people who have neurodivergent body-mind orientations, and for understanding the social context of neurodivergence. The course also offers practical tools for yoga therapists who also have this orientation, to support their own health, […]
ADHD: Science, Psychology, Social Context, and Practical Tools
ADHD is a developmental disorder seen children and adults. It spans challenges in multiple domains of self-regulation, including inhibition and impulsivity, executive functioning, emotional regulation, and sustained attention and distraction control. At the same time, ADHD also includes anomalies of embodied experience. This workshop draws from emerging research in the science, psychology, and embodied experience of […]
Getting Under Our Own Skin: Fascia, Interoception, and Emotional Health
Interoception refers to the ability to pay attention to bodily sensation. Also known as our eighth sensory system, interoception is a valuable training ground for self-regulation. This inner sense can be developed through mindfulness of body sensation, breathing, and other nodes of focus. In addition,novel studies point to fascia as a substrate for interoception and […]
Body Clocks: Improving Seasonal Affective Disorder, Depression, Sleep, Jetlag, and Well-Being
Almost all species have internal rhythms and a sense of time, which are the focus of a fieldnow known as chronobiology. Our internal circadian (24-hour) clocks generate and shape daily cycles in our physiology, emotion, and behavior. This class explores our circadian body clocks, why they matter to our health, and what we can do […]
Neuroplasticity, Dynamic Rest, and Well-Being
Neuroplasticity refers to the way the brain and nervous system change in response to experience, plastic meaning mutable. One of the most powerful and liberating ideas in the field of neuroplasticity is that it’s about more than what we practice. Neuroplasticity has two distinct elements. This course addresses each one and outlines the nervous system […]
Yoga Therapeutics + the Productivity Paradox
This Masterclass focuses on the pressure to produce, to do more, faster, better. It examines the social context of this pressure and several ways in which the drive to produce impacts knowledge and healing practices like yoga, psychotherapy, and the wellness space. The class explores implications for our work as teachers, healers, parents, and people. […]
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