A multitrack program that can be adapted to your lifestyle and your goals

This program runs in two sections, 200-hour and 100-hour, and participants can take both sections for a 300-hour certification which allows for teaching Orthopedic Yoga classes and working as an Orthopedic Back Care Specialist. Participants can stop at the 200-hour mark as a certified Orthopedic Yoga teacher, continue with the 100 hours on Back Care to be 300 hour certified or combine this with an existing 200 hour certification to receive a 500 hour certificate.

The 200-hour Certification in Orthopedic Flow

 This comprehensive program teaches students how to effectively and skillfully instruct Orthopedic Yoga Flow classes. The word “vinyasa” means to connect. A “ Vinyasa flow” class is one in which the poses are connected and move rhythmically from one to the next. This enables the joints to be bathed in synovial fluid, the internal, healing lubricant of the body. In this course, all levels of flow are taught so students will be able to teach in every situation, to all students. Students leave fully prepared to teach all levels of classes ranging from power style, sweaty and exhilarating classes, to gentle, slow therapeutic flows. The best part is, all students will graduate knowing how to support and protect their students, even those working with constraints or injuries. You will never have to say “If this pose doesn’t work for you, feel free to come into Child’s Pose.”; because you will have the knowledge to modify those postures for those students to make it safe for them. 

The 100-hour Orthopedic Yoga Back Care Specialist Certification

(Please note: Orthopedic Yoga 200-hour Teacher Training or alternate YTT and all A&P modules from OYT 200-hour are required as a prerequisite to this course)

This 100 hour training in Orthopedic Yoga Therapeutics for Back Care will prepare you to teach in clinical settings like hospitals and rehab centers, to work with clients privately and to teach specialty workshops and series as a Back Care Specialist.

•. 300-hour combination of classroom and clinical program

• If taken in conjunction with your existing 200-hour training, you will qualify to become an RYT-500 with Yoga Alliance

• Fulfills all requirements to enter the Orthopedic Yoga Therapy degree program

• All hours may be matriculated into the 1,000-hour Orthopedic Yoga Therapist degree program

• Focuses on spinal care as well as rehabilitation of spinal injuries and  conditions such as: herniated disks, stenosis, scoliosis, spondylolisthesis, pinched nerve and generalized back care

• Microcosmically focuses on the anatomy from the perspective of the joints, macrocosmically from the perspective of fascial tensegrity, allowing us to both to hone in for a detailed view of the injurious site as well as to pan out, capturing a holistic perspective in the effort to both discover and alter the factors that are contributing to that injury

• A combination of manual, movement and neuro therapies designed to rebalance and rehab the body from a holistic perspective

• Focuses on treating individual clients to help them rehab from current and past injuries and educating groups on how to restructure and reorganize to prevent future injuries.