Chris Walling – Yoga Therapy Research

Yoga has always been heralded for its therapeutic and healing properties. Over the course of the last thirty years, it has evolved into specific applications of yogic tools (postures, breathwork, meditation techniques and more) to address individual physical, mental and emotional needs. Today throughout the world there are thousands of providers who identify as yoga therapists, and nearly two hundred schools that train them in comprehensive clinical yoga therapy education programs that certify yoga therapists.

The incorporation of integrative healthcare into modern medicine is ever the more dependent upon a shared understanding of how these ancient traditions may help advance the clinical outcomes of a number of health challenges which creates an urgent need to help advance the findings of an evidence informed practice of yoga. This endeavor is of course creating a need for research literacy within yoga practitioners who seek to serve within a more integrated continuum of care.

This course will help introduce students to the fundamentals of contemporary yoga therapy research, explore guidelines for yoga therapy research and practice, and survey the current and emerging body of knowledge within the peer-reviewed yoga therapy literature. Join us as Dr. Walling makes research inspiring and fun as we explore the intersections of scholarship and embodied practices.

What You’ll Learn In Yoga Therapy Research

• Module 1: Fundamentals of Contemporary Yoga Therapy Research
  Through a quest to help build a scientific evidence base for multi-disciplinary applications of yoga therapy, the student will compare and contrast the popular research methods employed by contemporary yoga therapy researchers, and evaluate the epistemic responsibilities of yoga therapy practitioners who seek to include often-subjugated types of knowledge into their research focus. This module will focus on redistributing epistemic power to agents that typically have been excluded from epistemic participation in contemporary yoga therapy research, while exploring the basics of research design and method.
• Module 2: The Multidisciplinary Mystic: Calibrating the HPA Axis
  Yoga based practices are multifaceted, multisensory interventions that involve a series of postures, movement sequences, breath regulation, deep relaxation and meditative techniques. This module explores the basic research behind the purported efficacy much of the theories that inform the yoga-based practices draw upon, and explores their impact upon allostatic and autonomic regulation of the human nervous system.
• Module 3: Applied Research: Yoga For the Brain Health
  Findings from a randomized controlled trial of yogic meditation will be explored as part of a comprehensive insight into the compounding effects of yoga therapy interventions within an overall “yogic” lifestyle framework. Studies will also be examined that employ more sophisticated measures such as neuroimaging studies and genetic biomarkers for examining pre and post effects in pilot studies.
• Module 4: Questions & Answers
  In this final module, students will engage in a summary dialogue of their first three modules, examine the numerous studies and journal articles read throughout the course, and discuss de-identified clinical case material.

About Chris Walling

Dr. Chris Walling, PsyD, MBA, C-IAYT, SEP is Associate Professor in the School of Professional Psychology & Health at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Research Chair & Past-President of the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy and is a Clinical Research Fellow at the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University. He is the Vice President of Education & Outreach for the Alzheimer’s Research & Prevention Foundation, and Dean of Faculty at the Embodied Philosophy Institute. Dr. Walling is a licensed clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst and maintains a private practice in Los Angeles, California.

More courses from the same author: Chris Walling

When will I receive my course?

You will receive a link to download your course immediately or within 1 to 21 days. It depends on the product you buy, so please read the short description of the product carefully before making a purchase.

How is my course delivered?

We share courses through Google Drive, so once your order is complete, you'll receive an invitation to view the course in your email.

To avoid any delay in delivery, please provide a Google mail and enter your email address correctly in the Checkout Page.

In case you submit a wrong email address, please contact us to resend the course to the correct email.

How do I check status of my order?

Please log in to HealthcareCourse account then go to Order Page. You will find all your orders includes number, date, status and total price.

If the status is Processing: Your course is being uploaded. Please be patient and wait for us to complete your order. If your order has multiple courses and one of them has not been updated with the download link, the status of the order is also Processing.

If the status is Completed: Your course is ready for immediate download. Click "VIEW" to view details and download the course.

Where can I find my course?

Once your order is complete, a link to download the course will automatically be sent to your email.

You can also get the download link by logging into your HealthcareCourse account then going to Downloads Page.