Yoga Retreat
This course equips you with the specialized skills needed to help patients with various diseases using yoga as an adjunct or primary therapeutic tool. You will learn to use various yoga practices to overcome movement restrictions, increase functionality, and deal with the emotional challenges of your clients.
We invite you to come with a desire to open your mind and your heart as we support you to experience meaningful possibilities that you can take home with you.
You Will Learn:
- Anatomy through yoga postures
- To view yoga through a biomechanical lens
- To deconstruct and decode postures
- To perform hands-on manipulations
- To simplify and modify poses
- To use props in therapeutic ways
Hatha yoga is the branch of yoga that typically comes to mind when you think of yoga in general terms. The practice involves breath, body, and mind, and classes are usually 45 minutes to 90 minutes of breathing, yoga poses, and meditation.
Patanjali defined the eight limbs as yama (abstinences), niyama (observances), asana (postures), pranayama (breathing), pratyahara (withdrawal), dharana (concentration), dhyana (meditation) and samadhi (absorption).
Prana is the vital energy needed by our physical and subtle layers, without which the body would perish. It is the prana or life force in us that nourishes the mind and keeps the body alive.
Meditation is a mind and body practice that has a long history of use for increasing calmness and physical relaxation, improving psychological balance, coping with illness, and enhancing overall health and well-being.
Yoga Nidra, also known as Yogic Sleep is a ground-breaking process that is slowly gaining popularity. It helps in reducing stress and anxiety and depression, and in some cases, PTSD as well.
The traditional Hindu system of medicine (incorporated in Atharva Veda, the last of the four Vedas), which is based on the idea of balance in bodily systems and uses diet, herbal treatment, and yogic breathing.
Yoga therapy is a safe way of working with the natural capacity of your body and mind to optimize well-being. A general public yoga class can certainly ease everyday aches, pains, and mood complaints.
Naturopathy is an art and science of healthy living and a drug less system, It has its own concept of health and disease and also principle of treatment. In today’s age, Naturopathy is Recognized and well accepted as an independent System of medicine.
Panchakarma is a Sanskrit word that means “five therapies.” This is a process used to clean the body of toxic materials left by disease, poor nutrition and environmental toxins.
Zumba is a total-body cardio and aerobic workout, which provides a large calorie consumption. A study shows that a person burns 300 to 900kcal with an hour-long Zumba exercise.
Diet therapy is a broad term for the practical application of nutrition as a preventative or corrective treatment of disease. This usually involves the modification of an existing dietary lifestyle to promote optimum health.