300-Hour Healing Our Backs with Yoga Specialty Training

Yoga Alliance and Massage Therapy CE Credits

Are you a yoga teacher, massage therapist or a person with back pain?

Learn the therapeutic application of yoga for back, neck and shoulder conditions. A national expert in yoga’s structural benefits, Lillah offers this signature course to help you tap into yoga’s healing and strengthening power.

Experience the healing principles rooted in the science of yoga. Explore fundamental yoga poses based in the science of anatomy, physiology, and the alignment principles of yoga. You will gain confidence in your ability to self-heal and have additional understanding and skills to share.

Who should attend?

People with Back Pain
Lifestyle Students
Nurses & other Health Professionals
Massage Therapists
Yoga Teachers

“The most comprehensive and intelligent yoga class or CEU class I have taken. Lillah is very informed, experienced and concise in her presentation.”
– Allen Frost, Cert. Rolfer & Cranial-Sacral Therapist

“I marvel at Lillah’s incredible depth of understanding of how the body “wants” to function. She has a gift of intuitively teaching coupled with a wealth of knowledge, experiential wisdom and a succinct delivery system of the material.”
– Rebecca Ockert, Massage Therapist

Three Ways to Participate:

Students are invited to participate in one or more of three phases.

Phase One: which includes weekends one and two, is open to all lifestyle students, massage therapists, and yoga teachers pursuing personal growth and CEU’s.

Phase Two: includes weekends three and four is open to yoga teachers seeking CEU’s, as well as dedicated students and health care professionals. Phase one is a pre-requisite. Requests to wave pre-requisites will be considered by the director. Contact her here.

Phase Three: is for yoga teachers who want to complete Lillah’s Signature 300 Hour Yoga Therapy Specialty Training. Attend all four 20-hour Healing Our Backs with Yoga weekends, an additional 60 hours of practicum in a combination of private training and weekends. Program concludes with a mentored six month documented practicum. Available to both 200 hour and 500 hour certified students ( see below for more information).

Phase One:

August 26-28, 2016 – Principles of Self-applied Back Care  

September 23-24, 2016 – Anatomy of Movement, & Balanced Posture

If you are interested in a safe, simple and understandable approach to yoga, this course is for you. Gain the tools needed to discover back pain relief as well as improve your flexibility, strength, and functional ability. Click the Toggle link below to learn more

Phase One

Students learn:

the therapeutic application of yoga poses  for a variety back, neck and shoulder conditions
a practical knowledge of anatomy
how to identify and correct muscular imbalances
how to safely build flexibility and strength
how yoga improves the health of your joints
how yoga can increase endorphins and reduce pain
how yoga can integrate the body/mind and reduce stress

Each 13 hour weekend includes:

asana (pose) practices
pranayama (breath) practices
anatomy studies
relaxation training
pose sequencing principles
meditation and pain management
and more

” I have practiced and taken Hatha yoga from several yogis that were trained by Masters. I have never learned more about getting the most of each asana than I did with Lillah.” – D. Nodden, Massage Therapist
Massage Therapy Approved NCBTMB Provider #810703
Online ethics – 4 CE Credit Course for the massage therapist.

Tuition and Times:

Lifestyle Student: $225 per weekend

Cost for CEU’s:

$285 for one weekend
$540 for both
Both weekends total 26 hours of CEUs for massage therapists and yoga teachers.

Weekends 1 & 2 Hours:

 Friday 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Saturday 10:30 am to 6:00 pm
 Sunday 8:30 am to 12:30 pm

Click on the Register Now button and following the instruction for Phase One.

Phase Two:

October 21-23, 2016 – Developing your Therapeutic Eye: Yoga & the Asymmetric Body

 November 11-13, 2016 – Spinal Conditions and Practice Guidelines

Continue your studies. Learn to develop the pelvic floor, understand asymmetry and scoliosis, and learn how to map your body and create better balance. Discover reliable yoga applications for special back conditions, plus progress and refine your inversion, pranayama, and meditation practices

Phase Two

Tuition and Times:

Cost:

$285 per weekend.
Both weekends total 20 hours each of CEUs for yoga teachers. Each weekend may be attended individually with permission from Lillah.

Weekends 3 & 4 Hours:

 Friday 2 – 5 pm & 6:30 – 9:00 pm
Saturday 10:00 – 6:30 pm, with lunch break from 1:30- 2:45 pm
 Sunday 8:30 – 12300 pm and 1:00 – 2:30 pm

Click on the Register Now button and following the instruction for Phase Two.

Phase Three:

IAYT, International Association of Yoga Therapy Member School Since April 2012

This Specialty Training Phase is currently under revision… July/August 2016.

Attend All 4 Weekends in 2016 Plus an additional 60 hours in private and weekend sessions, and a documented/ mentored practicum in 2017.

Overview: The Healing Our Backs with Yoga TM Specialty Therapy Training will assist you in developing a deep understanding of back pain, and how to apply yoga for its relief. This program satisfies approximately 1/3 of the new IAYT competencies listed in their current yoga therapy standards as of December 2013. In order to assist you in meeting all the new standards, you may request a list of competencies met by this program.

The Curriculum will include learning how to make effective Structural and Therapeutic Needs Assessments and develop Sequence Plans.

Pre-requisites:

 Combined 300/500 hr and Yoga Therapy Certificate: Yoga teachers who have a 200 hour certificate are invited to attend the two year 300 hr course which includes the 4 weekends in Healing Our Backs with Yoga TM. By adding the additional six month mentored/ documented practicum the following year, you will complete the combined program. (See fees for the 300/500 hr course and add $1000 for the practicum).
Fast Track: Is for yoga teachers who hold a 500 hr certificate, have taught for a minimum of 2 years, and have completed an additional 50 hours of study in anatomy and physiology, and 50 hours of Yoga Sutra study, or are professionals with a relevant therapeutic background. You will need to attend all four weekends, the additional 60 hours of training, and participate in the six month mentored/ documented practicum. This 300 hr program includes 100 transfer hours, 210 contact hours, and 150 non-contact practicum hours, totaling 460 documented hours.

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Phase Three - 300-Hr Yoga Therapy Specialty Training

Mandatory Interview: As this is a mentorship program, all students applying for the Fast Track will be required to attend a 300 hr weekend prior to the start of the Healing Our Backs with Yoga series to demonstrate practice and peer teaching skills before acceptance into the program.

Mentorship Practicum – Our 150 hour mentorship practicum is now available to those students who complete either the 300/500 hr training or the Fast Track Healing our Backs Specialty training. Information will be provided in the training program.

Click on the Register Now button and following the instruction for Phase Three.

Tuition and Times

Tuition and Times:

Cost for the Fast Track Program: $2342

Pay in full: $2342 includes course manual and $375 non-refundable application fee. Along with the attendance to your “Interview Weekend” for acceptance into the program.
8 Month Payment Plan with registration & deposit of $375 then, eight payments of $255.87 to be paid each month. A $10 per month, approximately 3.5%, is added to administer payment plan.

Weekends Hours: