ThaiVedic Yoga Therapy in California - July 2019

The ThaiVedic System of holistic healing comes to California for the first time this July, 2019! BASA Yoga and ThaiVedic join forces co-hosting a transformative training in Holistic Yoga Therapy. Kimmana Nichols, 3rd generation healer and naturopathic doctor, founder of ThaiVedic, joins Joao Paulo Pereira, founder of the BASA Method, to share an extensive healing toolkit in this ThaiVedic Yoga Therapist Training Level I. DATE: July 17th - 21st 9:00 am - 4:30 pm LOCATION: Soul Yoga in Santa Rosa, CA This 5-day course (30 hours) empowers you to develop your self-practice according to your Ayurvedic constitution and expand your teaching skills for those who wish to offer effective one-on-one coaching to others. Content for this training includes: Introduction to the Ayurvedic 5 Element System and how to apply the system for balancing lifestyle, diet and Yoga Therapy. How to define the strengths and weakness of each form of Yoga by its elemental dominance. Diagnose an individual’s state of dosha (disease tendency), and which techniques are best to bring holistic balance. Ayurvedic psychology and how to assess and treat through the lens of the Ayurvedic tri-gunas (tamas, rajas, and sattva). How to integrate diet, lifestyle and yoga practices to promote holistic well-being. Meditations, breath practices, and asana to balance the three Ayurvedic disease tendencies. Experience structural yoga therapy for balancing the musculo-skeletal system. Emphasis in this module is on awakening our intuition and ability to be guided by spirit. We focus on treating Vata, the source of almost all disease; through meditation, positive psychology, breath practices, and grounding asana.