YCaTT Hospital Based Yoga Therapy
in Cancer & Chronic Illness
Level 1, Module 1
[B]Friday, December 4 – Sunday, December 6, 2009[/B]
Saint Mary’s Hospital Elder Services Programs, San Francisco, CA
[B]Topics for Level 1, Module 1 include: [/B]Establishing & maintaining a therapeutic relationship as a provider of Yoga based Integrative Medicine Services within a medical system; Using the mind and the imagination consciously for support during a healing crisis (pratipaksha bhavana & pratyahara); Understanding breath physiology & using breathing practices appropriately with in-patient and out patient populations (pranayama); Exploring guided imagery and other Yoga awareness processes including deep relaxation (Yoga nidra); & Studying adaptive movement theory to apply Yoga movement sequences and restorative poses safely with people in compromised bodies (asana).
[B]YCaTT Level 1, Module 1: a THREE-DAY WEEKEND, [/B][B]Sunday, Dec 4-6, 2009,[/B][B]11 AM Friday to 6 PM [/B]
[LEFT]YCaTT Level One Requires completing four 3-day weekend modules consecutively. Each module costs: $450 when registered in the complete Level One series. When registering individually, each module costs $650. [I]Thanks to the Remembering Marian Ford Yoga in Healing Fund, some generous scholarship and grant funding are available. [/I][I]Please ask. Please apply![/I]
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To Register, please contact Kristin Johnson at [U]kristinyoga@earthlink.net[/U]. For more program information, please call Jnani Chapman 415-948-4135
A $45 administrative cancellation fee applies. For a refund, cancellation must be received 48 hours before the program begins.
[B]Program Faculty:[/B] YCaTT founder, [B]Jnani Chapman, RN, BSN, CYT, CMT, [/B]a yoga teacher since 1975 who has specialized in training yoga teachers & other health professionals in working with people with cancer, heart disease and chronic illness through YCaTT Yoga Therapy Training Programs since 1998. She is a senior staff member of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program in California and the Smith Farm Cancer Help Program in Washington, DC. A founding clinician for the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine (2001-2009, Jnani was a nurse case manager and cardiac rehab & stress management specialist for the UCSF Heart Disease Reversal Program, Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease as well as for his retreat programs. Jnani has been the yoga teacher for several UCSF research studies for people with cancer and congestive heart failure and her YCaTT curriculum is being currently being researched in an East coast multi-site trial for women with breast cancer.
*nichole