This three-hour workshop will provide safe therapeutic tools to work with a client in a 1:1 setting or in teaching a gentle therapeutic yoga class. During this presentation, which is for yoga teachers and ideal for considering becoming a yoga therapist, we will:
- Discuss the Bio-Psychosocial Model of Health for living a healthier lifestyle with the 5 Kosha Model.
- Describe and practice how Healing Therapy Yoga© (which includes yoga therapy, ayurveda, myofascial release, cranial sacral therapy and somatics) integrates with the polyvagal nerve theory, for self-regulation of the autonomic nervous system.
We will also review the Client Intake Form (5 Kosha Model), Postural Assessment Form, and Determining Your Dosha Form for an individualized yoga therapy routine.
In this workshop you will:
- Learn applicable tools for being able to do a breath assessment, body scan, postural alignment, and breathing techniques.
- Practice safe “self-care” therapeutic tools to help self-regulate the autonomic nervous system.
- Practice gentle asana poses and somatic movements for a therapeutic group class.
The goal is to enhance one’s “inner awareness” to live a healthier lifestyle and to reduce pain, improve mobility, stability, strength, and function on and off the yoga mat.
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Recommended props: yoga mat, two yoga blocks, strap, and a yoga blanket
Meryle Richman, PT, DPT, C-CST, C-IAYT, has dedicated herself to combining conventional physical therapy with complementary integrative therapies, including yoga therapy, ayurveda, myofascial release therapy, craniosacral therapy and somatic movement.
Dr. Richman has decades of clinical experience as a licensed physical therapist. She holds a Master of Science degree in work physiology from Long Island University and earned her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Simmons College in 2012, with an emphasis on health promotion. In addition to her manual skills, she has integrated complementary holistic therapy with acute and chronic pain patients. Her skills have been in practicing myofascial release therapy and then becoming a certified cranial sacral therapist in 2002 with The Upledger Institute. For 32 years, she owned and was the director of Physical Therapy at Briarcliff & Jefferson Valley, P.C., in Westchester, New York.
Dr Richman became a yoga teacher in 2011 at Yoga Works, Irvington, New York. In 2022 she became a yoga therapist and an ayurveda yoga teacher in 2023 at the Kripalu School of Integrative Therapy, Stockbridge, MA. She is also a C-IAYT from the International Association of Yoga Therapists.
Currently, Dr Richman continues to work part-time in clients’ homes and teaches a weekly Zoom therapeutic yoga class.
Learn more about Meryle at choosept.com.