Adaptive Hatha Yoga Teacher Training

For Yoga teachers and health professionals

Yoga is for every body, regardless of shape, size, or ability level. Join Satya Greenstone to learn how to make the sacred practice of Yoga accessible to all students of varying levels and abilities.

This ten-day course teaches you to adapt the Integral Yoga® practices to meet the needs of any individual. You will explore the essential benefits of each asana and determine how to best implement them without strain—regardless of your students’ physical, mental, or emotional conditions.

This training explores:

• Adaptations of asanas (postures)
• Chair Yoga (helpful for students with limited mobility or space)
• Gentle warm-ups and stretches
• Safe and effective prop use

Adaptive Yoga gives us the tools to reach various populations that may not have had access to the benefits of Hatha Yoga. In addition to Yoga studios, Adaptive Yoga classes can be offered in senior centers, rehabilitation facilities, recreation centers, hospitals, churches, and community centers.

An Adaptive Yoga class provides all the benefits of the basic Integral Yoga class at the level that the individual student is capable of practicing. You will learn to create safe, comfortable Yoga sessions and study how to accommodate people with limited mobility, students in private classes, and practitioners of various levels in group classes.

Training Information

Prerequisites
200-hour Integral Yoga Teacher Training or the equivalent. Certified teachers from other traditions may also apply for consideration.

Continuing Education (CE) Opportunities

• Yoga Alliance (YA): Approximately 85 contact hours.
  You can input your contact hours using your YA login information.
• Integral Yoga Teachers Association (IYTA) can provide you a CE certificate with your program’s total contact hours for a $10 fee (free for IYTA members.) For more information, email ce@iyta.org.
• Integral Yoga 300-hour: 85 hours towards RYT 500 designation
• Yoga Therapy: This is one of the required core modules to become certified as an Integral Yoga Therapist
• International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT): Approved Professional Development (APD) course eligible for IAYT continuing education credits. (It is the students’ responsibility to request a certificate of completion and submit all required documents, hours, syllabus, etc. on the IAYT website.)

Testimonials

The program exceeded my expectations! I learned so much more than how to adapt asanas. The experience of fully being immersed in living yoga was so beneficial. Satya set aside time to call me and talk to me about the program, making me feel secure in my abilities and expectations during the training. I felt she held space for all of us and our different abilities, practice, and spirituality. — Sharon Monaccio

Satya Greenstone has a great depth of experience and knowledge. She brings it to every pose she teaches and provides a variety of approaches to make each pose accessible to anyone. She also provides an abundance of supportive material to underpin the lessons. I would unhesitatingly recommend any class she teaches. — Donna Sturm

Satya Greenstone is highly knowledgeable and experienced in all realms of yoga and yoga instruction. She is also compassionate, sensitive and encouraging so that her teaching inspires continued practice and curiosity regarding yoga and personal health. — Leonora Weimer