Certificate Earned upon completion of all requirements for the Specialty Certificate: Yoga Therapy for Auto-Immune Issues

Pre-requisite: C-IAYT

Instructor: JJ Gormley, CIAYT, MS

This course provides 16 Approved Professional Development credit hours for the IAYT toward renewal of your C-IAYT.

This course is eight hours of prerecorded video classes which include discussion on the immune, endocrine, and lymphatic systems and many other systems as related to common auto-immune issues. Discussed are the pathogenesis of these common auto-immune diseases: Epstein-Barr Virus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis, Fibromyalgia, Sjogren’s and more. Plus eight hours of prerecorded video classes of Case Studies. You are required to present two cases to JJ Gormley of clients that you worked with where you used yoga therapy for an auto-immune issue.

As lead faculty, JJ Gormley will guide students in how to safely design, and teach a class practice for clients with auto-immune issues. She will teach anatomy & physiology of many of these ailments/diseases, including the pathogenesis. We will also look at current research using yoga as the intervention, healing suggestions, and case studies of clients with these issues.

Requirements

• Auto-Immune Online Class - Eight one-hour classes (prerecorded)

• Case Studies Online Class - Eight one-hour classes (prerecorded)

• Present to JJ Gormley two case studies of client’s you’ve worked with who have an auto-immune issue. Presentations should be similar to those you observed in the Case Studies Online Class.

This course is an Approved Professional Development course with the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) for 24 Continuing Education hours toward your C-IAYT renewal.