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Therapeutic Essentials of Yoga for Common Mental Health Concerns: Depression

  • Partners to Empowerment Wellness Center 3681 South Green Road Beachwood, OH, 44122 United States (map)

Yoga can be used to manage not only physical discomforts but mental and emotional ones, as well. This workshop will provide you with specific yoga poses, breathwork and other techniques that can elevate your mood and help you manage

  • Seasonal Affective Disorder
  • acute distress from a life trauma
  • chronic depressive symptoms
  • low energy and lack of motivation
  • general feelings of melancholy or sorrow

You will learn about yoga psychology and its view of depression, then experience practices that you can use on your yoga mat and in your daily life. 

Teachers, students, and mental health practitioners are all welcome; no previous yoga experience is necessary. Yoga Alliance CEUs and SY CEUs available. 

Your instructor, Atmadarshan (Laura Santoro), earned her degree in psychology and worked in psychiatry through Case Western Reserve University at the University Hospitals of Cleveland. She is a Certified Yoga Therapist with the International Association of Yoga Therapists and has taught weekly yoga psychology classes for several years.

$45 for this session, or pay $99 to attend all three in the series.

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