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Thai Yoga Therapy Certification

Thai Yoga Therapy Modules offer CEUs.
A fee is charged for CMT/LMTS with NCBTMB.
No fee is charged for Yoga Alliance hours.
Please request CEUs when registering for your program.

 

Pranakriya Yoga focuses on cultivating and enhancing relationship with prana (life-force energy) to create changes in awareness, body and understanding that move us toward greater experiences of wholeness. As a social experience, Pranakriya Yoga aims to cultivate a community of yoga practitioners who can access moments of connection and unity that celebrate unique expressions of the one consciousness of Spirit.

As yoga teachers, we are asked to fill a diverse and multifaceted spectrum of roles for our students and clients, from movement instructor to exercise physiologist, from healer to life coach, from transformational anchor to spiritual facilitator. During our 200 and 500 hour trainings, most teachers gain some skill with hands-on work, (ie. posture assisting) as well as holding nurturing space for our clients during group classes and private client sessions. Yet most yoga teachers would like to have more training using their hands and cultivating interpersonal skills.

For many centuries, Thai people have used the practice of Nuad Boran (Thai massage) as an integral component of medical and spiritual protocols. Drawing its roots from Ayurvedic medicine and Buddhist philosophical teachings, this practice recognizes that when energy-flow through the body becomes blocked or diminished by actions of daily life and injury, we lose vitality and health. This form of bodywork uses physical techniques to stimulate and clear the energy pathways, as well as manipulate the body’s muscles and joints to allow the body’s inherent healing mechanisms to function properly. Because the practitioner creates a flow of movement that guides the client’s body from one position to another, this work has been called both the “Thai Healing Dance” and “Lazy Man’s Yoga.”

Pranakriya’s Thai Yoga Therapy certification program combines the modalities of Thai bodywork with yoga science to give yoga teachers and yoga practitioners the skills, confidence and practice necessary to explore healthy and nurturing touch as an extension of physical and spiritual practice. This work can be a powerful tool to deepen the individual and shared experience of living a life fully alive.

Over the course of this certification, you will gain the following skills:
• Skillfully give short form (6o minute) and long-form (90 minute) sessions in Thai Yoga Therapy, as well as create therapeutic-focused Thai Yoga Therapy session.
• Sharpen interview skills to create an environment where clients feel safe to divulge relevant information about their medical, social, emotional and spiritual story in order to adapt sessions to meet the abilities, limitations and challenges of your client’s body within the scope of your skill-set as a healer.
• Cultivate within yourself the sensitivity and empathy necessary to ‘hold space’ for clients, respecting the sacred trust our students/clients bestow on us while we work on them.
• Develop a relationship with the body work as a extension of your personal practice of meditation and yoga by learning the body mechanics necessary to neither fatigue nor hurt your own body while giving the bodywork.

Although the entire program is open to any person, the certification is focused towards yoga teachers, yoga practitioners and other health/wellness practitioners who want to learn this form of healing and energetic touch.

Part I. Coursework – 140 hours

• The Yoga of Touch – The Basic Thai form (30 hours)

• Thai Sen Lines and Therapeutic Applications (30 hours)

• Sequences and Transitions – Taken after Yoga of Touch and Sen Lines (30 hours)

• Holding Space – The Energy and Anatomy of Touch (20 hours)

• Functional Anatomy and Therapeutic Yoga (30 hours)

Part II. Practicum – 100 hours

Prepare a Thai Yoga Therapy training journal documenting your private sessions and self-massage practice.

  • Receive and document a minimum of ten (10) sessions (90-minute) of Thai bodywork from different practitioners to experience different styles of work (20 hours);
  • Receive and document a minimum of twenty (20) self-massage sessions (60-minute) of Thai bodywork todevelop awareness of hand and body perception skills (30 hours);
  • After completing Basic Dance and Sen Lines Practice, document a minimum of twenty (20) sessions (90-minute) of Thai Yoga Therapy sessions (30 hours); and
  • After completing Sequences and Transitions, document a minimum of ten (10) Thai Yoga Therapy (90-minute) sessions (20 hours).

Part III. Practicum – 5-10 hours
After completing coursework and home-practice journal, complete One/Two 5-hour mentoring sessions with an approved PK Thai Practitioner to evaluate your skills . During this session, you will both give and receive Thai Yoga Therapy sessions for coaching and technique evaluation. This mentoring session may need to be repeated.