Yoga for Depression and Anxiety

Nearly twenty years of research, thirty years of practice, and Amy’s recovery from a debilitating depression inform this protocol of evidence-based yoga practices. This introduction by the author of Yoga for Depression and Yoga Skills for Therapists offers tools not taught in regular classes to support your own healing journey and those you serve.

Amy covers the yoga principles and research upon which the evidence-based LifeForce Yoga practices are based. Learn several brief yoga interventions that can be done anywhere and will offer you an energy boost, a calm and focused mind, and a balanced mood, even as you teach them to others—no mat required!

Key Features

• Reduce anxiety and depression

  Identify, practice and prescribe a Yoga breathing technique to meet and then reduce anxiety

• Increase self-acceptance

  Demonstrate and recommend imagery and affirmation to increase self-acceptance

• Meditation for trauma recovery

  Identify and prescribe an accessible yoga-based meditation appropriate for trauma recovery

• 3 Hours Credit with the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT )

Essential Lessons

• The yoga philosophy that supports mood management

• The research that supports yoga practices for depression and anxiety

• The psychological aspects of the Chakra System

• Guided imagery for mood management

• Adapted and Accessible Evidence-based yoga breathing for emotional balance
  - Bellows Breath (Bhastrika)
  - Stair-step Breath (Analoma & Viloma Krama)
  - Bee Breath (Brahmari)
  - Power Hara
  - Pulling Prana

• Mudras and mantras for emotional wellbeing

• The LifeForce Yoga Chakra Clearing Meditation