Who this course is for:

• Counselors and therapists who would like to integrate Spirituality into their practice
• People wanting to learn true yoga beyond postures and breath work

What you’ll learn: 

• Psychology of Yoga: Nothing to do with postures
• Psychology of everyday conduct, devotion, and mental health
• Vedanta Meditations for Promoting mental wellbeing
• Understanding Suffering and Emotional Freedom

Requirements: 

• No prior knowledge is required to take this course 

Yoga is not only physical exercise or posture. There is a whole psychological basis to it. This course is not about learning how to do different poses of yoga. This course is about learning how to take care of your mental health and live an emotionally charged life. If you are unfamiliar with the concept of yoga or assume it is about physical exercise, please know it is more than that. This is a course on psychology.

In this course, you will learn three yoga paths: Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Raja Yoga. Everything from basic understanding, core principles, and methods of practice will be included in this course. Below is the basic understanding of what these three yoga paths are.

Karma Counseling – the yoga of action and selfless service

Clients having problems of depression, anxiety, etc with regards to their work and career can benefit tremendously from this skill.

This resonates most with those who are community-based and of an outgoing nature. Karma yoga purifies the heart and burns away selfish tendencies by encouraging a detachment from the fruits of actions. In this way, there is no expectation of personal gain or recognition. All actions are done with a focus on Oneness, therefore establishing a connection with the True Self. Mother Teresa is an example of a well-known karma yogi.

Bhakti Counseling – the yoga of devotion and love

Clients having problems of depression, anxiety, etc with regards to managing emotions, self-image and relationships can benefit tremendously from this skill.

According to this path, a lack of faith in the Divine or Sacred Essence has caused us to lose connection to our Divine Self. The solution, therefore, is love, surrender, and devotion to the Divine qualities in everything. Bhakti Yoga asks us to purify and transform our egotistic self-love by focusing the mind on sacred thoughts and transferring all our love and emotions into the Divine essence that permeates all. Examples of Bhakti Yoga are chanting and devotional rituals. This path resonates most with those of an emotional nature.

Rāja Counseling – the practice of meditation

Clients having problems that arise due to agitation of mind, stressful lifestyle and more complex problems such as PTSD, Suicidal Thinking, ADHD, etc can benefit tremendously from this skill.

The restlessness of the mind has caused our attention to become carried away in stories and disconnected from our True Essence, according to this path. The solution, then, is to calm the mind through meditation in order to reveal the Oneness that we are in our truest essence. This is done via the Ashtanga (8 limbs) system, as outlined by Patañjali in the Raja Yoga Sutras. Most yoga classes in today’s society are steeped in the Raja Yoga path. This path is most suited for those with a nature that resonates with method-based practice.

There are many practices and principles that you will learn in this course, which covers a significant amount of teachings from Vedanta, Swami Vivekananda and Bhagavad Gita. All the yoga paths are based on Hinduism; however, these principles are more about love, mindset and humanity rather than religion. Therefore, they can be practiced by anyone regardless of their age, gender, experience, and religious choice.

Counselors and Mental Health professionals can use these philosophies and practices for their clients along with the regular counseling of CBT or any other therapy.

Our Promise to You

By the end of this course, you will have learned the psychology of yoga that goes beyond postures and breathing. 

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