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10/09/2025

Starting Next Month! - Yoga for Mental Health: Cultivating Emotional Resilience and Fortitude

To learn more about the module, join our information session -
🌱 Info Session - Oct 27th at 12 pm PT - Register via the first link in our bio!

What You’ll Experience -
The Yoga for Mental Health module explores the nuanced art of tailoring yoga strategies to optimize one’s capacity for navigating a spectrum of challenges. This exploration extends to understanding both contextual and personal factors contributing to emotional unease and mental distress. In this 30-hour course, students will learn to apply yoga-based approaches, including movement, breathwork, meditation, mindfulness, and guided imagery, to support mental well-being in both clinical and community settings.

Instructor - Dr. Christiane Brems, PhD, ABPP, ERYT500, C-IAYT | Program Director, YogaX | Clinical Faculty, Stanford Psychiatry

Who Should Join -
💛Healthcare providers looking to expand their therapeutic toolkit with accessible yoga-based practices
💛Yoga professionals seeking advanced training in mental health support through yoga-based practices

This course can be taken on its own or as part of the 75-hour Mental Health Certificate or the Advanced Training Programs offered through YogaX at Stanford Psychiatry, providing healthcare providers and yoga professionals with integrated, evidence-based strategies to foster emotional resilience and cognitive flexibility.

When: November 9, 16, 23 & December 7
Where: Offered Virtually via Zoom
Registration:
$800 - freestanding 30-hour module
$1,520 - full 75-hour Mental Health Certificate (includes two additional modules)

10/07/2025

We invite you to a special online workshop with Dr. Mini Rattu on Saturday, November 2, 9 AM – 1:30 PM PST.
🌐 Online Workshop
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The 8 Limbs of Yoga: A Map for Healing Individual & Ancestral Trauma

Why this work is crucial: Trauma is not just personal; it’s intergenerational.
What we will explore:
The 8 Limbs of Yoga as a holistic framework for trauma recovery.
How each limb offers specific tools for healing.
Applying this ancient wisdom to modern concepts of ancestral and collective trauma.
The goal: Leave with a practical blueprint for self-healing and post-traumatic growth.
About Dr. Rattu:
Dr. Rattu specializes in trauma and stress-related disorders, integrating her training in clinical psychology, CBT, yoga, mindfulness, and compassion practices. She brings expertise in culturally relevant program development and a passion for making healing accessible to diverse communities.

09/30/2025

In our latest YogaX alum blog, we highlight the inspiring journey of Valentina Anania, a dedicated graduate of YogaX. Valentina tells her story, illustrating the transformative power of therapeutic yoga—shifting from feelings of disconnection to embracing inclusivity and healing for all.
Through her life experiences, she found the importance of merging ancient wisdom with modern science, making yoga accessible to diverse populations. 🌍🧠
👉 Read Valentina’s full story on our website! Discover how YogaX is empowering teachers to create safe spaces for exploration and grow within the therapeutic yoga paradigm.
Integrated Holistic Yoga embodies:
💛A practice accessible to everyone
💛A practice with profound benefits
💛A practice of intentional lifestyle choices
💛A practice of wholeness
💛A practice of integration

09/12/2025

🌿✨ Deep gratitude to our YogaX 300-hour students for the energy, planning, traveling, scheduling, and all the heart that went into our in-person intensive. Over five days, we gathered with intention, showing up fully to cultivate presence, reverence, and connection.
Together, we explored integration, holism, accessibility, intentionality, and beneficence, rooted in the mission of YogaX to bring yoga into healthcare and community settings where it is needed most. This work empowers yoga professionals to carry the wisdom of practice into spaces that create the greatest impact, honoring the unique BioPsychoSocioCultural experience of those we serve.
Here’s to community, to practice, and to the ongoing journey of integrating yoga into health and healing.
💛🙏🌍

08/14/2025

🌿 YogaX at Stanford Psychiatry is proud to announce our new 1,000-Hour Integrated Holistic Yoga Therapy Pathway — designed for yoga teachers and healthcare professionals ready to bring yoga into healthcare and community health.

🌱200-Hour YTT – Healthcare & Community Health Emphasis
Your starting point: foundational skills for teaching yoga with an understanding of healthcare and community health contexts.
🪴300-Hour YTT – Therapeutic Yoga & Yoga Therapeutics
Your next step: deepen your practice, refine your skills, and expand your capacity to serve diverse populations safely and effectively.
🌲1,000-Hour – Integrated Holistic Yoga Therapy Program
The culmination: build on your 200 + 300 hours with 500 additional hours of advanced yoga therapy training to become a YogaX-trained yoga therapist, prepared for healthcare and community health settings.
For more information join our info session on 8/25 @ 12 PM PT
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✨ If you are ready to start your 1,000-hour journey, apply now for our upcoming 2026 200-hour programs.
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✨ Already have 200 hours? Apply to the 300-hour program to begin your next 800 hours with YogaX at Stanford Psychiatry. 🔗 Link in bio
Read the full story and find out why 1,000 hours matters in our latest blog post.
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08/04/2025

At YogaX, we’re on a mission to bring yoga into healthcare, one teacher and healthcare provider at a time. Why? Because integrating yoga into healthcare doesn’t just benefit patients and providers—it elevates the entire healthcare system. 👏🏼👏🏽👏🏿👏🏻👏🏾

With deliberate intention, we champion yoga as a healthcare and public health intervention, amplifying its power as a prevention strategy. To that end, we offer therapeutic yoga teacher trainings and education in yoga therapeutics that are integrated, holistic, accessible, beneficial, and deeply intentional. We honor and celebrate human complexity as situated in a greater web of life.

Our yoga teacher trainings come with nationally recognized credentials from and the International Association of Yoga Therapists. Our teachings empower healthcare providers to seamlessly integrate yoga into their clinical practice. Our trainings empower yoga teachers to bring individually-tailored and client-centered therapeutic yoga to the very people who will benefit the most, those underrepresented, underresourced and underserved.

With deliberate intention, we champion yoga as a healthcare and public health intervention, amplifying its power as a prevention strategy.

On a national level, YogaX is driving advancements in credentialing standards, widening the scope of yoga practice within healthcare settings.

Ready to join the movement? Apply to one of our many YogaX training programs today. Let’s shape the future of healthcare and yoga therapeutics together, one mindful yogic step at a time. 🌟

08/01/2025

🔍How does breathwork impact stress resilience?

🔍Can attentional focus influence emotion regulation and pain perception?

💛These are just a few of the questions explored in the upcoming 4-day YogaX module, Neurophysiological Foundations of Yoga-based Practices.

Join YogaX in advancing a more integrated, holistic, and translational approach to care. Neurophysiological Foundations of Yoga-based Practices can be taken as a free-standing module or as a core module in your 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training journey!

Register via the links in our bio!

Led by Laura Schmalzl - (She/Her) PhD, RYT500, C-IAYT – Clinical Neuropsychologist, Cognitive Neuroscientist and Yoga Therapist . This module offers an evidence-based exploration of the mechanisms through which yoga-based practices influence nervous system functioning and biopsychosocial health.

Designed specifically for healthcare providers, mental health clinicians, and yoga professionals working in clinical settings, this module provides a foundation for translating ancient practices into scientifically grounded interventions.

Covered topics will include:

☑️ The neural basis of movement, breath and attention
☑️ Parallels between yogic frameworks such as the Pancha Maya Kosha model and the Gunas, and neuroscience frameworks such as Polyvagal Theory
☑️ Practical strategies for supporting nervous system regulation in everyday life through yoga-based practices

Whether you are treating patients with chronic stress, trauma, pain, or emotional dysregulation – or seeking a deeper understanding of how to regulate your own nervous system – this training offers powerful insights and actionable tools.

07/29/2025

Ahimsa embodies and toward ourselves and others in intentions, thoughts, speech, actions, and relationships. It includes the capacity to notice hostility when it is present and to confront and transform it. Following the principles of nonviolence and peacefulness toward self, other, and everything means not causing deliberate pain or harm.

Ahimsa starts (but does not end) with our intentions. If we start from negativity, hostility, or anger, we likely do harm to ourselves and communities. Challenging situations unfold more auspiciously if we approach them with peaceful intention, the genuine and authentic desire of nonviolence for all.

Ahimsa means having compassion, caring, and lovingkindness for everyone equally. It requires that we support equity – equity in the form of equal human rights and equal access to collective services and goods that support collective health, wellbeing, food and shelter, and opportunity. Nonharming extends beyond sentient beings to include nonviolence toward nature, the world, our planet, and the universe. Nonviolence does not mean sitting idly by when we witness injustice. Quite the opposite. It means recognizing – truly, consciously, and honestly seeing – violence where it is present and feeling responsible for helping challenge and resolve it. It means speaking up in the face of harm – though not by being harming. Not by swinging an axe against those who are violent, but by entering into a dialogue with a heart of peacefulness, inquisitiveness, and openness. is action for the greater good and starting anywhere and however small will create peaceful reverberations into the collective. Please try it today.

07/17/2025

Friends - It’s finally here—Integrated Holistic Yoga Movement (Volume 2 in a 3-part series about therapeutic yoga)

The capacity for movement is a precious gift, a life-giving and health-preserving necessity, a way to be in community for the sake of pleasure, joy, combat, food security, self-protection, and the protection of loved ones. We need movement to live and stay healthy. We are evolved to move, and movement has contributed to the profound and revolutionary evolution of our human brain. The intimate link between motion and cognition, between movement and emotion, between action and wellbeing is not just metaphorical – it is deeply biological.
Yoga practice in general, and this series of three books in particular, is offered as a way to begin to learn about ourselves and others: our places in the world and our impacts on the greater web of life. It is an invitation to become aware, curious, and mindful; to gain greater understanding about how, what, and why we act, think, and feel the way we do; to live with compassion, open-heartedly, gratefully, joyfully, and peacefully. Becoming mindful about how we move through life, how we take action and express our capacity to move, breathe, think, feel and relate is the very essence of embarking on a journey of self-discovery. Recognizing the nuances and joys of moving in the world, moving with the rhythm of life, flowing with grace in communities and relationships, and recognizing the ripple effects of every small movement and action – that is the power of yoga. The power of a yoga that is about creating change in the world, about creating a web of life that can sustain itself with grace, wisdom, joy, and health.
Move gratefully, joyfully, and compassionately.
Many hugs,
Chris

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