Welcome to YogaX Teacher Training Pages

We are excited that you are considering a yoga teacher or therapeutic yoga services credential!

YogaX is offering unique teacher training programs geared specifically toward

  • healthcare providers from diverse disciplines who seek to supplement their ongoing patient services with yoga or to serve as yoga professionals in a variety of healthcare and allied healthcare settings, providing yoga classes, therapeutic yoga interventions, and yoga therapy

  • yoga professionals who seek to work in integrated and allied healthcare settings in collaboration with healthcare professionals

YogaX programs are based in deeply scientific, as well culturally and historically appreciative curricula that cover key contents related to yoga teaching and to therapeutic yoga services, drawing on traditional and modern yoga psychology and philosophy, modern psychological research and principles, evidence-based practices, neuroscience, and interpersonal neurobiology.

 YogaX curricula are developed and taught by well-versed teachers with

  1. many years of teaching and therapeutic experience,

  2. qualified and experienced to teach yoga teachers and clinicians,

  3. registered with Yoga Alliance and/or certified as yoga therapists by IAYT (i.e., a minimum of E-RYT500 or C-IAYT), and

  4. have advanced credentials as related to teaching yoga as well as a healthcare specialization with an advanced degree (e.g., PhD, MPH). 

YogaX Registered Yoga School Programs

YogaX offers several pathways toward providing yoga teaching and yoga therapeutics – depending on trainees’ professional desires and backgrounds.  YogaX programs are registered with Yoga Alliance, creating eligibility for our graduates to become registered yoga teachers at the 200-hour or 500-hour level.   

YogaX Accredited IAYT Program

In addition to the YogaX Programs being registered with Yoga Alliance, we offer a pathway accredited by the International Association for Yoga Therapists that allows qualified healthcare providers to become therapeutic yoga service providers via a 300-hour therapeutic yoga training. 

What Program Is Right For You?

Information About Each Teacher Training Program Offered

YogaX 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training with a Healthcare Setting Emphasis

This 200-hour basic yoga teacher training (YTT) program is registered with Yoga Alliance and fulfills the criteria of YA as a 200-hour yoga teacher training. In compliance with Yoga Alliance requirements, the curriculum consists of five modules:

  1. Yoga humanities, including history, philosophy, and ethics for yoga teachers

  2. Anatomy and physiology, with attention to application to movement science

  3. Professional essentials, including teaching methodology and professional development

  4. Techniques, focused on analytical training as well as experiential practice

  5. Practicum experience, including mentored lead teaching

 The curriculum is taught with a focus on depth in the broad foundations of yoga teaching, applied specifically in healthcare settings. It integrates deliberate foci on:

  • preparing teachers for applying yoga practices in healthcare and allied healthcare settings,

  • making yoga accessible to diverse student groups,

  • honoring the wisdom traditions with deep cultural appreciation and humility,

  • drawing on modern science – especially as related to the application of yoga in healthcare settings, and integrating all eight limbs of yoga, from ethics and disciplined lifestyles, to movement and breathing practices, to sensory withdrawal, concentration, meditation, and joyful union with a greater purpose. It is dedicated to the principles of ahimsa (non-violence, do no harm) and satya (honesty and truthfulness).

 Applicant Eligibility:

 This basic yoga teacher training program has four specific prerequisites and requires a thorough application outlining eligibility of the applicant. 

  • Prerequisite #1:  Relevant prior experience with yoga

  • Prerequisite #2:  Relevant prior experience in or interest in developing a yoga teaching specialization in healthcare setting

  • Prerequisite #3:  Clear goals about how the program will be applied professionally or personally

  • Prerequisite #4:  Formal Informed Consent related to all program requirements, policies, and other features via signature on the Stanford University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science Assumption of Risk, Release of Claims and Hold Harmless Agreement

YogaX 300-Hour Yoga Teacher Training

Advanced Applications of Yoga in Healthcare and Allied Healthcare Settings

This advanced and therapeutically-oriented yoga teacher training program is registered with Yoga Alliance and exceed the standards of Yoga Alliance for a 300-hour registered Yoga School. The curriculum integrates wisdom and experiences across five domains of study, all contextualized for providing therapeutic yoga services within healthcare settings (broadly defined):

  • Yoga foundations (yoga humanities), with attention to yoga philosophy, history, and psychology; yoga and the mind; and yoga frameworks for health and disease 

  • Biomedical and psychological foundations (anatomy and physiology), with attention to anatomy and physiology, application of movement science, psychology and mental health, and body-mind-heart-community integration

  • Yoga therapy tools and therapeutic skills (yoga techniques), with attention to yoga-derived therapeutic intervention strategies or tools, principles of therapeutic relationship-building, and principles and skills related to psychoeducation and coaching that transmits essential values and skills

  • Professional practice essentials, with attention to ethics, values clarification, legal matters, and intersections relevant professional ethics code from the extant healthcare profession; cross-discipline collaborations and communication, risk management skills, and yoga therapy ambassadorship; ongoing personal practice, continuous mentorship, lifelong learning, and consultation and supervision as needed 

  • Practicum experience, with attention to demonstrated assessment skills, conceptualization skills, treatment planning skills, and mentored lead teaching of yoga therapeutics 

Graduates from this advanced YogaX teacher training programs are prepared to work interprofessionally and collaboratively with other healthcare providers on behalf of their students, clients, or patients.  They are committed to helping facilitate an integrated and continuous healthcare experience for their clientele within their healthcare practice settings.

Applicant Eligibility:

This program has three prerequisites and requires a thorough application outlining eligibility of the applicant. 

  • Prerequisite #1:  Completion of a 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training

  • Prerequisite #2: Career or enrollment in an academic program in Healthcare, Allied Healthcare, or Mental Healthcare or Equivalent(evaluated on a case-by-case basis)

  • Prerequisite #3: Formal Informed Consent related to all program requirements, policies, and other features via signature on the Stanford University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science Assumption of Risk, Release of Claims and Hold Harmless Agreement

The YogaX IAYT-Q 300-Hour Program

Integrated Holistic Yoga Therapeutics in Healthcare (IAYT-Q)

This advanced therapeutic yoga program is accredited by the International Association of Yoga Therapists and registered with Yoga Alliance (under the above Option 1 program). It is specifically designed for qualified healthcare providers who want to bring yoga into their existing healthcare practice.  Trainees can expect to develop holistic and integrated conceptual understandings and therapeutic yoga skills (in line with IAYT’s standards) that are transformative, encourage inquiry, and promote health, resilience, and growth.  Specifically:

  • Trainees become knowledgeable in the yoga philosophy, learning to apply yoga history and psychology in their teaching and engaging in deep ethical analysis and commitment that includes clear frameworks for understanding the panchamaya kosha model and framework for understanding health and illness (i.e., the vyuha or four noble truths model). 

  • Trainees become steeped in biomedical and psychological foundations, including concepts of anatomy, physiology, and body mechanics to support skillful and healthful physical practices, especially with vulnerable populations of students.   They apply psychological concepts to gain a better understanding of mental health and its relationship to therapeutic yoga, as well as an integrated holistic model for the interaction of physical, vital, mental, emotional, behavioral, and relational wellbeing that serves personal as well as communal (or collective) health and resilience. 

  • Trainees learn in-depth and advanced therapeutic yoga and relationship-building strategies and tools with a clear understanding of how to choose and apply such therapeutic yoga to individual client needs in the context of their interpersonal context and biopsychosociocultural matrix.  They understand how to tailor accessible and equitable practices with intention to convey maximum benefit from their planned therapeutic interventions. 

  • Trainees make lifelong commitments to professionalism and professional development, especially as related to therapeutic yoga applications in healthcare.  They gain practice with the application to real-life situation of ethical principles, applying this wisdom to managing clinical situations, collaborations with other healthcare providers, and risks versus benefits. 

  • Trainees commit to ongoing g professional development, understanding the need for and value of continuing education and compassionate self-care.  They make use of consultation and supervision to assure personal wellbeing as well as client safety. 

  • Trainees engage in supervised practicum experiences to become skillful at translating deep scientific knowledge and ancient wisdom into practical therapeutic yoga applications within healthcare settings.

Applicant Eligibility

To apply for the YogaX IAYT-Q 300-Hour Program, candidates must meet one of the following criteria:

  • Option #1: YogaX YTT200 certification

  • Option #2: A successfully completed YTT200 registered with Yoga Alliance

    • Applicants must provide the training syllabus for review, demonstrating coverage of all prerequisite information in the YTT200.

    • Any content inadequately covered in the original training may require makeup through additional readings or recordings, subject to determination by YogaX lead teachers.

  • Option #3: A successfully completed YTT200 certification program not registered with Yoga Alliance

    • Applicants must submit the training syllabus for review, ensuring the inclusion of all prerequisite information in the YTT200.

    • Any content not sufficiently covered in the initial training may necessitate supplementation with additional readings or recordings, as determined by the YogaX YTT300/IAYT lead teachers.

  • Option #4: Equivalent academic teaching experience or teaching/psychoeducational/patient education experience in the clinical or community healthcare settings.