Yoga as Medicine - The Yogic Path for Health, Healing, and Personal Transformation

10/31/10 to 11/05/10

Taught by Dr Timothy McCall •

Course Details

Join physician, author, and yogi Dr. Timothy McCall to discover -- or deepen your appreciation of -- the healing potential of yoga for everything from depression to infertility to heart disease. Explore yoga’s vast toolbox, including postures, breathing techniques, relaxation, chanting, visualization, meditation, and philosophical ideas, and learn how these tools can be adapted to meet everyone’s needs—young or old, fit or unfit, healthy or seriously ill. Beyond relieving symptoms or even curing disease, yoga as medicine is a path to high-level physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

In addition to lecturing and leading participants through a variety of yoga practices, Dr. McCall will personally conduct a private yoga therapy session on one of the students from the workshop in front of the group for teaching purposes. In addition, there will be group yoga therapy exercises, with some participants serving as patients, and others acting as yoga therapists, under the supervision of Timothy and his assistants.

Curriculum

Areas of focus will include:

• The ancient yogic formula for changing dysfunctional habits

• Anatomical principles that deepen yoga practice and make it safer

• The vital link between breath, nervous system, and mind

• Reconciling yoga and modern science

• Practicing safely with various health challenges

• Ayurvedic insights that deepen yoga’s therapeutic potential.

Daily Schedule

6-8am Satsang: meditation, chanting and talk on Yoga

8-10am Yoga as Medicine, Workshop I

10:00 – 11:45 Brunch and Karma Yoga

12-4pm Yoga as Medicine, Workshop II

4pm Yoga Class

6pm Dinner

8-10pm Satsang: meditation, chanting and talk on Yoga

Pre-requisites

This course is open to yoga students of all levels, yoga teachers, and health-care professionals.

Certification

Cost

Tuition: $450 + 5 nights accommodation (see below)

Arrival and Departure

The course will begin with Satsang at 8pm on Sunday, Oct. 31 and end in the afternoon on Friday, November 5^th.

We recommend that you spend at least a few days in the Yoga Farm before the start of your course. This allows your body and mind time to rest, re-energize and be nourished by the ashram environment. You can then begin your study feeling relaxed and refreshed. You may also wish to stay for some days after the end of the course to allow the learning from your study to integrate more fully into your consciousness within the supportive environment of the ashram.

What to Bring

Recommended texts - Yoga as Medicine by Dr. Timothy McCall, MD

This can be purchased online at www.drmccall.com, Amazon.com, or at our Ashram's boutique.

Casual comfortable, modest clothes, yoga mat, toiletries, slip-on sandals/shoes, flashlight, insect repellent, alarm clock, travel mug/tumbler, water bottle, towel and bathing suit (for sauna). For tent space only: bring your own tent, bedding, and towels.

Registration

You can register by calling us at 530-272-9322, emailing your interest to yogafarmregistration@sivananda.org or online by clicking on the link at the bottom of this page.

To reserve your space we require a one night non-refundable deposit. Please call in advance to confirm accommodations.

Praise for Yoga as Medicine

“If you care about your body and want to learn to listen more carefully to its messages, and to take good care of it over the long haul, you will find this book a godsend, whether you are young or old, firm or infirm, a new-comer to yoga or an old-timer. It is the first comprehensive medical look at the benefits of yoga and its therapeutic uses. Timothy McCall has done a great service to the field of mind/body medicine”.

-- Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine emeritus, University of Massachusetts Medical School, author of Full Catastrophe Living and Wherever You Go, There You Are.

Testimonial From Recent Workshop Attendee

"You are a gem in the yoga community. The mixture of your medical background, yoga knowledge, and your down to earth way of presenting is much appreciated. Helping people is what this is all about for me, and knowledge such as yours provides me with deeper resources, and science to back it. Thank you for all you do! Namaste!"

About Dr Timothy McCall
Timothy McCall, M.D., is a board-certified specialist in internal medicine and a dedicated yoga practitioner who has traveled to India and throughout the United States observing, training with, and interviewing the world’s leading yoga teachers and therapists. He is the medical editor of Yoga Journal, and is the author of Yoga as Medicine: The Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing (Bantam). Timothy studies with a traditional Ayurvedic Vaidhya (doctor) in Kerala, India and with a Tantric master in Bangalore, who is a direct disciple of Swami Sivananda. His primary yoga teacher in the United States since 1995 has been Patricia Walden, and more recently he has worked with Rod Stryker and Donald Moyer. He can be found on the web at www.DrMcCall.com