Experience the pristine wilderness of Norway whilst learning how to use Yoga as a targeted tool for healing!

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The Teachers Teacher Mark Stephens will take you on a 4 day journey to deepen your knowledge and understanding of Yoga as a therapeutic practice.
Yoga has gone from being an exotic practice for the few, to a useful source of general well being for the many and a valuable complementary tool in modern health care. Extensive research from prestigious institutions like Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Karolinska Instituttet and the University in Oslo, show Yogic techniques can help patients effectively in the treatment and rehabilitation process of a series of common aliments. Yoga therapy moves into the mainstream of the healing professions.
This Yoga Therapy Intensive is open to everyone interested in learning about the healing powers and practices of yoga therapy.
Join if you are a yoga practitioner, yoga teacher or yoga therapist. (Qualifies for 33 hours of Yoga Alliance Continuing Education for RYT 200 and RYT 500 teachers). This is definitely for you if you are a doctor of medicine or osteopathy, physiotherapist, chiropractor, clinical psychologist, nurse practitioner, nurse-midwife, or a clinical social worker and want to learn more about how yoga can contribute in your patients healing process.

We'll stay at Storfjord Hotel, a secluded luxury boutique hotel near the Art Deco town of Ålesund on the westcoast of Norway. It's log buildings are surrounded by forest and situated on a hillside with a stunning view of the fjord and the Sunnmøre Alps.

The Program

Description / The Yoga Therapy Intensive
FOUNDATIONS, METHODS AND PRACTICES FOR COMMON AILMENTS

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In yoga therapy (yoga chikitsa), we adapt these and other healing practices to unique individuals to help heal what most ails our bodyminds. In this adaptation, we can usefully integrate the traditional insights of yoga and ayurveda with contemporary insights of medicine and the alternative healing arts, thereby guiding ourselves, our yoga students and yoga therapy clients in ways that help to make their lives the best they can be. In this intensive, we will first survey the theories and practices of healing found across the histories of yoga, ayurveda and scientific medicine, distilling methods and techniques with proven efficacy.
We will then apply these techniques to:
1. Musculo-Skeletal Ailments (including plantar fasciitis, collapsed arches, sprained ankles, Achilles injuries, knee injuries, hip problems, ISJ dysfunction, piriformis syndrome, generalized low back pain, lordosis, kyphosis, scoliosis, brachial plexus nerve entrapment, shoulder impingement syndrome, rotator cuff, pathologies, elbow tendinopathy and carpal tunnel syndrome).
2. Emotional/Behavioral Difficulties (including generalized anxiety, chronic depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addictions).

This workshop is open for medical personnel, yoga therapists, yoga teachers, yoga practitioners and everyone interested in learning about the healing powers and practices of yoga therapy.

Daily Schedule

Thursday, March 22, 2018

  • 09:00 - 10:00 Arrival & Register
 
  • 10:00 - 13:00 Yoga Therapy – Origins, Theory, Methods
 
  • 13:00 - 14:30 Check in & Lunch
 
  • 14:30 - 18:30 Healing the Foundations and Mechanisms of Movement
 
  • 18:30 - 20:30 Free time & Dinner
 
  • 20:30 Evening Discourse & Discussion: Healing and Curing

Friday, March 23, 2018

  • 
07:00 - 09:00 Master Class: Keeping the Spine in Mind
 
  • 09:00 - 10:00 Breakfast
 
  • 10:00 - 13:00 The Spine and Trunk from the Pelvis to T-12
 
  • 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
  • 14:30 - 17:30 The Spine and Trunk from T-12 to the Occiput
 
  • 17:30 - 19:00 Freetime/walk/spa
 
  • 19:00 Dinner
 
  • 20:30 Evening Discourse & Discussion: Science and Mysticism

Saturday, March 24, 2018

  • 
07:00 - 09:00 Master Class: Grounding, Inverting and Levitating
  • 

9:00 - 10:00 Breakfast
  • 10:00 - 13:00 Shoulders, Elbows, Wrists

  • 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch

  • 14:30 - 17:00 Mental & Emotional Wellbeing

  • 17:30 to 19:00 Freetime/walk/spa

  • 19:00 Dinner

  • 20:30 Evening Discourse & Discussion: Suffering and Liberation

Sunday, March 25, 2018

  • 
07:00 - 09:00 Master Class: Cultivating Self-Acceptance and Self-Transformation in Asana, Pranayama, and Meditation
  • 
09:00 - 10:00 Breakfast
 
  • 10:00 - 13:00 Yoga Therapy for Teachers and Therapists/ Yoga Therapy in Clinical Practice
 
  • 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
 
  • 14:30 - 16:30 Yoga Therapy for Teachers and Therapists/ Yoga Therapy in Clinical Practice - continued


  • 16:30 - 17:30 Wrap-Up & Goodbyes

 
Qualifies for 26 hours of Yoga Alliance Continuing Education for RYT 200 and RYT 500 teachers.

The Hotel

Storfjord Hotel - A slow life hideaway

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At Storfjord Hotel you will find tranquillity and relaxation. Take in the familiar scent of timber, and enjoy looking at works of art and carefully selected antiques. Sit comfortably in designer furniture while drinking
coffee and enjoy the magnificent view.
 
The hotel stands on a wooded hillside that enjoys a splendid panorama of the Storfjord. While the view itself is well worth a visit, you will enjoy this beautiful haven from hectic life.
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The hotel also offers a brand new, luxurious spa area.
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www.storfjordhotel.com

Prices and More Information

Prices - What you get:

  • A Transformative Yoga Therapy Intensive in a unique retreat setting

  • 33 hours lectures + masterclasses

  • Accommodation: Shared double room – (single rooms available by request for additional fee)

  • Full Board, breakfast, lunch and dinner

  • Access to the spa

  • Transfer from Moa bus terminal to Storfjord Hotell

Earlybird before 14.01.2018 - NOK 10.500,-
After 15.01.2018 - NOK 12.500,-

Join the intensive!

To save your spot please registrer in our bookingsystem and purchase a registration deposit of NOK 3.000,- in our store. You'll then receive an invoice with the remaining amount.
Purchase the whole intensive in our store at an even better earlybird price (before 14.01.2018) NOK 9.990,-
For other payment options, please email marit@yamyoga.no
Terms & Conditions
Your space at the Intensive is reserved by paying the non refundable deposit of NOK 3.000,- in our Store. We will then send you an email with the invoice for rest amount which must be payed by due date. If we do not receive your balance payment, your place can be given to another participant.
Bookings less than 4 weeks prior to the intensive must be paid for “in full” at the time of booking. We accept payment with creditcard or by bank transfer on request.

Cancellation Policy
8 weeks plus before the start of the intensive 100% refund, minus the deposit. 4-8 weeks before the start of the Intensive: 50% refund, minus the deposit. Up to 4 weeks before the start of the Intensive 0% refund will be given. Any cancellation must be communicated to us in writing by email tomarit@yamyoga.no
Cancellation will take effect from the day that it is received by us.
If you have any health issues please consult your doctor to make sure you are in a fit state to join us.
We reserve the right to make any changes due to situations outside our control. A full refund of the course fee will be given, however we do not accept responsibility for any costs incurred, including airfare and travel plans.

Display Date
March 22-25
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