CPD17 Yoga Therapy Foundations
A Continuing Professional Development Specialty Intensive
(Course Planning and Sequencing for the Individual)
This three-day Yoga Therapy Foundational Training is compulsory for all students undertaking BIYOME’s Yoga Therapy Training and is delivered via Livestream or Face-to-Face learning. It provides the essential foundations for those wishing to deepen their yoga teaching practice or progress towards becoming a qualified Yoga Therapist.
Learn from Celia Roberts how to structure a Yoga Therapy consultation, including client intake, comprehensive history taking, assessment methods and the development of personalised therapeutic programs. Throughout this foundational training, you will explore Yoga Therapy course planning, therapeutic sequencing and individualised practice design through the traditional Viniyoga therapy model.
Over three days, you will develop a deeper understanding of the origins, philosophy and principles of Yoga while learning how to apply this traditional knowledge within modern one-to-one and therapeutic settings. The training provides a clear framework for developing confidence in designing and delivering individualised Yoga Therapy programs, with an emphasis on assessment, sequencing, ongoing review and client-centred care.
You will learn traditional Yoga Therapy assessment approaches, including:
- Observation (Darshana)
- Palpation and touch-based assessment (Sparshana)
- Questioning and client enquiry (Prashna)
- Basic pulse assessment (Nadi Vignan)
The training also explores the traditional Yoga Therapy framework of Heyam, Hetu, Hanam and Upayam, guiding practitioners to identify the root causes of imbalance, collaboratively establish therapeutic goals and develop appropriate Yoga Therapy practices to support each individual.
Students will gain an understanding of how Yoga Therapy applies traditional yogic wisdom alongside contemporary approaches to health and wellbeing, creating a structured pathway for safe, ethical and effective therapeutic practice.
Yoga Therapy is defined by the governing body, Yoga Australia, as ‘the process of empowering individuals to progress toward improved health and well-being through applying the teachings and practices of Yoga.’
This foundational training offers an opportunity to immerse yourself in a traditional healing approach while developing the knowledge, skills and confidence required to begin applying Yoga Therapy principles in a professional setting.
We highly encourage you to embark upon this long-held traditional form of healing.
Definition of Yoga Therapy: https://yogaaustralia.org.au/yoga-therapy/
Course Code:
Next Date Offered:
Friday 18 February – Sunday 20 February 2028.
Daily 9:00am – 5:00pm, AEST, Brisbane.
What You Will Learn
- Yoga Therapy Program Design and Review
- Knowledge of the application of the 8 limbs of Yoga
- Interpret assessment findings as a Yoga Therapist
- Orderly sequencing of practices and Vinyasa Krama
- Applying an appropriate range of therapeutic interventions
- Developing multiple goals and knowing how to progress a course.
- Why do we course plan?
- Sutra references from the 8 limbs
- Vyuha model: heya (the symptoms), hetu (the causes), Hana (the goal), upayam (the tools).
- Understanding the concept of function over form
- How to teach Yoga to the individual
- What is vinyasa krama?
- What is Viniyoga?
- 3 stages of the course planning
- Dissecting and understanding techniques to know what is the function of each pose and what prepares us for the next stage of the course
- Understanding the concepts of rest and counterpose
- Learn how to:
- Create asana course plans,
- Create course plans for pranayama,
- Create course plans for mantra and meditation
- Apply theory to experiential practice
(Application of yoga therapy to the individual)
Stage 1: Client Assessment Principles
- Assessing Client, Client history and intake form
- Knowledge of the appropriate use of Darshana, Prashna and Sparshana
- Understanding and appropriate application of Heyam, Hetu, Hanam & Upayam
- Knowledge and appropriate use of structural and functional assessment
- Knowledge and appropriate use of lifestyle assessment
- How to treat the person and not the disease
- How do we take the person into the state of Yoga? Do we strengthen or stretch, pacify or expand?
- Setting priorities: symptoms/pacification (shamana [short term]) and purification/strengthening (shodhana [long term]).
Stage 2: Set the goal (including the possibility of asana, pranayama, dhyana, mantra)
- Understanding the goal: realise what part of physiology we want to affect, using which model, and what tools to use e.g. guna, a mental state, a spiritual quest, pranavayu, Pancha Maya
Stage 3: Preparation for the goal and finalise
BIYOME’s Specialty Intensive Teacher Training can be undertaken as Continuing Professional Development (CPD) with Yoga Australia and/or the Meditation Association of Australia, as well as obtaining Continuing Education (CE) recognition with Yoga Alliance. The course contact hours and non-contact hours (CPDs and CEs), allocated across Meditation Australia and the two registering yoga bodies do, however, differ. Please contact us for more information.
Should you wish to complete a full meditation certification (330 hours – 1000 hours) or yoga certification (150 hours – 1000 hours), please view this Specialty Intensive Training as an elective within our full course offerings. Details are available here.
Further Information & Requirements
Head Senior Yoga & Meditation Teacher
Yoga Therapist & Ayurvedic Practitioner
Director of BIYOME
There are no further required books at this stage.
There are no further recommended books at this stage.
Props attain a 15% discount when purchased from Yoga King Products.
Required
- 1 yoga mat
- 1 yoga strap
- 1 bolster
- 2 blocks
- 2 blankets
Optional
- 1 Iyengar yoga chair (backless chair without the cushion, can be purchased from EMP Industrial)
- zafu (meditation cushion)
- zabuton (meditation cushion base)
Your CPD17 Investment
Face-to-Face
Full investment upfront $1,888
Access is not offered without complete payment