30-Hour Yoga for Chronic Pain Course

YogaX at Stanford Psychiatry invites you to join us in our upcoming online 30-hour course, “Integrated Holistic Yoga for People Living with Chronic Pain.”

The YogaX program offered through Stanford Psychiatry represents an innovative fusion of yoga’s ancient wisdom and the latest insights from modern psychological research. This 30-hour training provides a comprehensive, science-based, person-centered approach to working with individuals experiencing chronic pain. Drawing from both contemporary pain science and yogic wisdom, it encourages students to view pain not just as a physical sensation but as a biopsychosociocultural experience. Participants will learn assessment techniques, treatment planning, and how to create yoga-based, evidence-informed interventions and/or sequences that address student/patient concerns while respecting each practitioner’s scope of practice. 

This is an advanced-level pranayama course geared to the following audiences:

• Health, mental, and other allied healthcare providers interested in bringing therapeutic yoga principles and strategies into their clinical practice and emotional and mental self-care. 
• Health, mental health, and allied health-program students in graduate or medical programs interested in bringing therapeutic yoga principles and strategies into their supervised clinical practice and emotional and mental self-care. 
• Yoga providers interested in enhancing their emotional self-care and in offering therapeutic yoga classes with sensitivity to mental health concerns, especially, but not only, in mental healthcare settings.
• Yoga therapists interested in enhancing their emotional self-care and providing therapeutic yoga interventions with concern for mental health, especially, but not only, in mental healthcare settings.

This 30-hour course includes weekend classes on the following dates: 

• Feb 22, 8:00 am – 5:00 PT
• March 1, 8:00 am – 5:00 PT
• March 8, 8:00 am – 5:00 PT
• March 15, 8:00 am – 5:00 PT

The full syllabus and schedule are available here. Continuing Education or Advanced Professional Development credits (30 hours) are included in the tuition cost; STAP funds can be applied. 

This 30-hour course can be taken on its own or as part of the following YogaX offerings: 

• 300-Hour Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Training
• 300-Hour Yoga Therapeutics in Healthcare
• 800-hour Yoga Therapy Program

If you have any questions, please reach out to yogaxteam@stanford.edu.