ryt-500 yoga therapy

overview

Contact us now to apply for our May 2012 program.

The two concepts of yoga and therapy are instinctively similar, and yet each represents a vast subject matter and more than one lifetime of mastery. What does a Yoga Therapy Program address?

In order to remain a useful way of “fixing” the body, modern healthcare must evolve to treat the cause of disease and not just its symptoms. Used therapeutically, yoga is cheaper, less painful, and more integrally intelligent to any body’s natural programming. Versus the allopathic propensity, for example, to dose children for ADD/ADHD or turn to drastic surgery on a diagnosis of cancer, Yoga Therapy empowers the patient to develop his or her own innate capacity to heal. As a partner of Western Medicine, Yoga Therapy can do everything from providing pain-management techniques to providing an alternative to surgery. Used shamanically, Yoga Therapy can remove disease or dysfunction completely.

should i take this program?

This program is designed for the following groups of yoga practitioners:

Those seeking an RYT-200 Basic Teaching Certificate who are interested primarily in teaching private, therapeutic yoga
Current RYT-200 teachers whose program offered insufficient anatomy detail, teachings of restorative yoga, and/or how to see and touch bodies
Anyone trained in bodywork who also wants to understand yoga as a therapeutic modality.

what the program offers

Graduates of this program will be trained to work privately with clients in an asana, breath-based, and energy-based capacity. Students will learn:

In-depth western and eastern anatomy
The therapeutic benefits of asanas, pranayamas, and kriya breathing
When to apply asanas, pranayamas, and kriyas to which clients
How to understand musculo-skeletal breakdown, organic, and mental disease intuitively
Basic concepts of a healthy, Ayurvedically-based diet to recommend to clients, and how to work in partnership with Ayurvedic or other nutritional specialists.

program prerequisites

RYT-200 hour training, and preferably at least one year of training if trained outside Boundless Yoga. If not an RYT, an interested yoga student also trained as a bodyworker or one very interested in basic knowledge of western anatomy — and willing to roll up your sleeves with the already trained RYTs! Please note that this is an RYT-500 Program for RYT-200 certified teachers.

program dates and details

This year’s program duration is May-November 2012.

First Apprenticeship

May through July are intended for independent study and work done closely with the student’s mentor, Kim or James. Students will attend one or more of their teacher’s weekly classes and be an Apprentice, recording and sequences classes and doing individualized assignments.

We call this portion the “first apprenticeship” because we highly recommend the student continues his or her “second apprenticeship” for one full year after the end of the YT Program. If done through Boundless, students will accrue all Apprenticeship hours toward their RYT-500. Please see our Apprenticeship page for more details.

Anatomy Intensive and Applying Knowledge

September through November will include two weekends a month, or eight total weekends. The times will be 2-7 pm both Saturday and Sunday. These months will be the anatomy intensive portion of the program and many sessions will overlap with Boundless’s RYT-200 Anatomy Modules.

This portion of the program will detail the application of the in-depth anatomy training, and the direct contact with the teacher over the Summer, to an understanding of how to work with students and clients therapeutically.

Missing Class

We understand that this is an intensive program and that students must sometimes miss classes. All modules are therefore recorded, so if a student misses a day or weekend, these modules can be made up at the student’s discretion and under the guidance of James or Kim. Students cannot miss and not make up more than 20% of the program.

Book list

Louise Hay, Heal Yourself
Anodea Judith, Eastern Body, Western Mind
Doug Keller, Yoga as Therapy
Thomas W. Meyers, Anatomy Trains

Program price

The price of the program is $3400. Deposit for the program is $925 and due January 5. Monthly payment of $273 is due on the 5th of the month.

If paid in full by November 30, the cost is $2720. If paid in full by December 15, the cost is $2890. If paid in full by January 5, the cost is $3200.

Price of program includes unlimited classes at Boundless, access to all Boundless’s Google Sites Training Pages (including more than 100 sequenced classes), personalized Apprenticeship with James or Kim, and access to Seeing Bodies modules for practice assessment and improvement.