Stress Management Teacher Training – Online

Bring Yoga to people under stress, wherever they are.

In this online training, you will gain the essential skills and confidence to teach Yoga as stress management in a wide variety of settings, including the workplace, healthcare facilities, schools, and Yoga studios.

Learn Yoga practices that help your students recover from past stress, cope with stress as it arises, and build resilience for the future. You will learn to adapt Hatha Yoga poses, relaxation, breathwork, and Raja and Karma Yoga so they are accessible to any population.

Stress is a part of nearly every illness, as a cause or an effect, so this course is also part of the Integral Yoga Therapy curriculum. It gives a solid foundation for other specialized Yoga Therapy trainings, including cardiac and cancer. It also builds good basic skills for working with PTSD, though further training is recommended if you want to specialize in teaching for PTSD.

Co-developed by Swami Vidyananda and Swami Ramananda, who have taught it together since 1994.

What You’ll Learn

• How to adapt Yoga postures, breathwork, meditation, relaxation, and mindfulness for stress relief, including standing and seated chair poses for different levels of physical capacity
• Breathwork, both adapted and remedial, designed to lower stress quickly
• Meditation and mindfulness as stress reduction tools
• The scientific evidence on the benefits of Yoga-based stress reduction
• Adapted relaxation techniques
• The mental and emotional practices of Yoga for stress relief
• Strategies for designing and marketing classes, workshops, and courses
• Methods for leading group discussions for peer support
• The fundamentals of trauma-sensitive Yoga practice

Also Included

• Live Hatha Yoga and Chair Yoga classes
• Support for teachers not trained in Integral Yoga
• Recorded Integral Hatha Yoga classes, meditations, and inspiring talks with Sri Swami Satchidananda
• An online community to connect and communicate with other participants

You Will Leave With

• A toolkit of adapted practices for stress relief, ready to teach
• The skills to bring Yoga into corporate, healthcare, and community settings
• Confidence teaching people of every level of physical capacity
• One of the required modules toward certification as an Integral Yoga Therapist

Who This Is For

Yoga teachers and health professionals who want to bring Yoga-based stress relief to their students, clients, and patients.

Schedule

Live sessions meet online, Eastern Time:

• Thursdays, 7–9 pm.
• Saturdays, 11 am–1 pm and 2–4:30 pm
• Sundays, 11 am–1 pm
• No sessions on Memorial Day weekend, Saturday, May 29, or Sunday, May 30

Attendance at most live sessions is required. Sessions are recorded and usually posted within a day, and some can be viewed afterward to accommodate time zones and schedule conflicts. Recordings stay available for six months after the training ends, until December 27, 2027. Expect 3–7 hours of homework a week.

Prerequisites

A 200-hour Yoga teacher certification and at least six months of teaching experience. Certified clinicians with a good background in Yoga practice may also apply. Online reading assignments and videos begin before the first session. These count toward your course hours.

Continuing Education

• Yoga Alliance: 90 contact hours, which you can enter with your YA login
• Integral Yoga 300-hour: counts for 90 hours toward the RYT 500 designation
• Integral Yoga Therapy: one of the required modules toward certification as an Integral Yoga Therapist
• IYTA CE certificate: $10 fee (free for members), ce@iyta.org

What Past Participants Say

“I would 100% recommend Integral Yoga Stress Management Teacher Training to Yoga teachers and health care providers. It was one of my favorite trainings. There was so much information and excellent resources were provided. It was clear and logical. I use something from the training almost every day.” ~Trudy

“I would highly recommend the SMTT Program for EVERYONE. It doesn’t matter your background, your profession, age or current situation in life, this program brings you the tools to make living everyday life easier. These tools that you learn in the SMTT course build your resilience and are accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime. And the best part is that you learn how to share this information!” ~Raisa Punkki

“Integral Yoga Stress Management Teachers Training is an invaluable resource for our times. I am grateful to all of the teachers and staff who made this online experience so very rich, and for the community that was formed. It is already proving to be very helpful to me and those who I serve. Thank you.” ~Montina Sraddha Cole