The growing widespread recognition of Yoga as a legitimate form of mental health therapy has dramatically increased demands for certification programs for Yoga therapists. Healing Pathways Medical Clinic Inc. has responded by establishing an innovative certification program that gives students access to a genuine clinical rotation where they are exposed to patients in a health-care setting.

Dr. Paul Copeland, founder of Healing Pathways, is committed to providing outstanding training and research in the field of Yoga therapy, and to students seeking hands-on learning experiences. Healing Pathways administers a clinical rotation for trainees seeking Yoga therapist certification. Participants in this rotation work in the clinic side-by-side with Dr. Copeland as he sees and treats his psychiatric patients. Program enrollees take part in deliberations about psychiatric diagnoses, pathogenesis, etiology, course and treatment using evidence-based therapies, including pharmacotherapy.

The rotation encompasses discussions about the use of Yoga in diagnostic categories and evidence for its use in the field of psychiatry. The curriculum includes assignment of a research project in which participants investigate the use of Yoga techniques as part of a treatment protocol for an individual with a psychiatric diagnosis. In addition to their value as a teaching tool and intellectual stimulant, these research studies can make important contributions to the inadequately small body of evidence in the scientific literature about the emerging field of evidence-based Yoga therapy.

Healing Pathways Yoga therapy students have access to the private notes and approximately 275 unpublished photographs of luminary Yoga teacher Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya performing various asanas and Yoga practices. Krishnamacharya gave these materials to Dr. Copeland specifically to advance his teaching and research in the discipline of Yoga.

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