Breath / Internal Medicine & Breath
Module 4: Pranayama, Ayurveda, Neurological/Digestive/ Hormonal/Immune systems
19 - 23 May 2018 Copenhagen
Svastha Yoga of Krishnamacharya. YOGA THERAPY TRAINING in COPENHAGEN with Dr Ganesh Mohan & Dr Günter Niessen - Integrating Yoga and mainstream Health Care for Self Care & healing. The International Svastha Yoga Therapy Program brings you the most effective aspects of yoga and Ayurveda combined with modern medicine.
TEACHER Dr. Ganesh Mohan (the teaching is in English)
WHO Relevant for yoga teachers, students & health professionals with a solid yoga practice.
VENUE Bispebjerg Bakke 6, 2400 København NV (Copenhagen North West) Map
PRICE Early Bird 4,300 DKK / 585 EURO until the 12 February, thereafter 4,600 DK / 615 EURO for 5 days of intensive learning & professional development
TIMES:
- Sat. 19th May: 10:00am - 5:00pm
- Sun. Mon. & Tue. 20th - 22nd May:8:30am - 5:00pm
- Wed. 23rd May: 8:30am - 3:00pm
BENEFITS Dr Ganesh Mohan will share his knowledge drawing on his extensive experience from the worlds of Yoga & Yoga Therapy, Ayurveda & Western Medicine. You will experience and learn therapeutic frameworks, tools & practices for you to use straight away with your clients & students. You will receive a certificate, the module manual, notes, & recordings. You will also be given exclusive access to the Svastha Yoga Therapy International community support group on FB. This is closed for professional support group open to people who have participated in a Svastha Yoga Therapy Program (SYTP) Module.
ABOUT DR GANESH MOHAN
Dr Ganesh Mohan is a Yoga teacher & therapist. He is trained as a doctor in Western Medicine and is an Ayurvedic doctor. Ganesh is down to earth and able to communicate his extensive knowledge and experience with simplicity and clarity.
Dr Ganesh Mohan was born into a yoga family. His parents A.G. Mohan and Indra Mohan studied with Sir T. Krishnamacharya for 18 years.

OUTLINE
Module 4: Pranayama, Ayurveda, Neurological/Digestive/ Hormonal/Immune systems
- Safety considerations in yoga sessions for balance problems, movement disorders.
- Observation and assessment skills: setting optimal and realistic goals based on physical limitations and challenges.
- Working with the inner body awareness and the breath as a pathway to access physiological balance.
- Disorder based considerations for specific conditions. For example:
- (a) Problems of ageing
- (b) Parkinson’s disease, Multiple sclerosis, Stroke
- (c) Chronic pain, fatigue syndromes
- (d) Irritable Bowel Syndrome and digestive problems
- (e) Menstrual disorders
- Visualization and imagination in yoga practice, to influence the physiology of the body with the tools of the mind.
- Pranayama as a therapeutic tool:
- (a) Different types of Pranayama
- (b) Sequencing Pranayama
- (c) Relation to Ayurveda
- An overview of traditional yoga concepts related to pranayama: Nadis, Prana, Koshas etc.
- Introduction to assessment of ayurvedic constitution or Prakrti and its use.
SVASTHA YOGA: FOUNDATIONS OF YOGA THERAPY
Svastha Yoga Foundational Therapy Modules are registered with the YA. The SYTP program is currently expanding & in the accreditation process at International Association for Yoga Therapist Educational Educational Standards for the Training and continuing paraprofessional education of Yoga Therapists. Read Dr Ganesh Mohan blog for more information here
Krishnamacharya's key principle is that yoga is adapted to the individual.
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