How Do You Want to Grow Old?
Learn How Yoga Can Help You Plan for Your Future Health Span
'Join' The $101 Million XPrize Competition
Or, Why Your Don't Have to Wait 7 Years to Extend Your Health Span!
What if we could learn how to increase our health span, i.e. not just how long we live, but the number of years we stay healthy and free of chronic diseases?
This is the challenge recently laid down by the XPRIZE Foundation, which recently announced its 7-year XPRIZE Health Span competition for therapies that can slow or even turn back the aging clock.
The prize? A whopping $101 million to the team that develops therapies that restore muscle, cognition, and/or immune function by a minimum of 10 years in persons aged 65-80 years. See video to the right for details!
"It does not make any sense to have a long lifespan without being healthy," says Chip Wilson, a Co-Title Sponsor of the XPRIZE Health Span.
Name sounds familiar?
Yes, you guessed it - Chip Wilson is the controversial Canadian entrepreneur also know as the founder of yoga clothing company Lululemon.
But hey, Chip, how you heard of this thing called yoga?
Actually, for more than 30 years now, some 3,500 studies published in leading scientific journals have documented the health benefits and age-reversing effects of this simple, ancient practice.
Want a "therapeutic that restores muscle, cognition, and immune function"?
Why not take a look at the extensive yoga research literature. And while you're at it, look through the 115 medical conditions yoga has been shown to improve or prevent.
Why You Don't Need to Wait 7 Years to Extend Your Health Span
Don't get us wrong. We certainly applaud any undertaking that aims to help us get the best out of our lives - and particularly anything that can extend our health span.
But quite frankly, why start completely from scratch, when Dr. Dean Ornish now for almost four decades has demonstrated the power of yoga and lifestyle medicine to extend our health span? And other researchers have shown the power of meditation to do the same?
Why not use that generous amount of knowledge to solidify research into techniques that are documented to improve numerous improve markers of our health span?
But well, the good news is that YOU dont' have to wait 7 years to improve your health span. There are already plenty of great research out there on exactly how to do that.
This is why we created our Online Yoga as Lifestyle Medicine Study Group. It is a forum that teaches you all the latest advances in learning just how yoga and similar techniques can help improve our well-being - right here and right now - and also help extend the length of our health span.
And right now, you have a chance to join us for our upcoming 2024 season! Become a member of our Sangha of fellow, like-minded yogis as we together explore the many wonderful opportunities for transformation and enrichment that meet us as we move towards midlife and beyond.
Become the Hero Of Your Own Story
As we reach midlife, we are launched into the same universal challenge: Facing the slow, inexorable age-related changes of the body.
How we write that story makes all the difference.
Do we use them as a vehicle for transformation, or, do we meet them with a growing sense of loss and defeat?
How can we work with the body to maximize the benefits of yoga to slow or halt common age-related changes?
How can we use midlife and beyond to chart our own, personal transformation to enrich our lives physically, mentally and spiritually?
Join us to learn how cutting-edge research and ancient yogic wisdom provide the answers to these questions and many more!
Discover the Benefits of Yoga as the Ultimate Lifestyle Medicine
With more than 3,500 studies documenting 115+ health benefits, there is no doubt that yoga is the ultimate Lifestyle Medicine.
But unfortunately, for most of us, practicing yoga as much as we would like can be a challenge. There is a lot to learn about the practice:
- How to you fit your yoga practice to the changing needs of your body?
- How do you target your practice for specific health benefits?
- How can you work with yoga to maintain strength and flexibility over time?
- How can you incorporate the latest findings from science on how to expand your health span into your yoga practice?
As a member of Yoga as Lifestyle Medicine Study Program, you will learn about all these things, AND, you also get access to a wealth of resources to support you in your yoga practice. Join us live or listen to the recording!
Sharpen Your Yoga Practice and Teaching Skills - And, Earn Yoga Alliance Continuing Ed Credits!
Ever wanted to be able to retain more from yoga workshops by going back to re-listen and memorize key content? Now you can do all of that.
Explore and deepen all aspects of your yoga practice and teaching – while studying in the comfort of your home.
Best of all, you get permanent access to all the course content that happen while you are a member!
- Learn how yoga can help manage and improve your day-to-day well-being through techniques for self-care, healthy aging, pain management, and more.
- Get a whole new edge in your teaching and practice with teaching guidance from leading yoga teachers.
- Learn how to benefit from all the dimensions of personal and spiritual transformation that yoga offers.
- Connect with others in an online community of kindred spirits passionate about yoga.
Join Our Online Sangha and Stay at the Forefront of
New Findings into Yoga As Lifestyle Medicine
Learn How to Use Yoga as Lifestyle Medicine from These Leading Yoga Teachers and Health Professionals
Bernie Clark
Clearing the Energy Pathways - An Introduction to Yin Yoga
Dr. Emily Splichal
Gait, Posture, and Longevity: Movement Mastery for Optimal Health
Judith Hanson Lasater
Journey to Center: A Yoga Guide to Unlock the Full Potential of Your Core
Vicky Fox
Motion is Lotion: Yoga Techniques for Enhancing Joint Health
Doug Keller
Yoga for Healthy Hips - PLUS: Charting the Myofascial Lines in Yoga
Leslie Howard
The Essential Trinity of the Body: The Role of the 3 Diaphragms
James Knight
Somatic Yoga for Fascial Unwinding
Olga Kabel
Need an Energy Makeover? How Yoga Can Help You Boost Vitality
Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Keys to Finding Inner Strength:
A Yogic Wisdom Path to Developing Greater Resilience
Julie Gudmestad
Teaching Yoga to Beginners: Assessment Tools for Yoga Teachers
Lynn Crimando
Keys to Extending Your Health Span - Yogic Wisdom and Modern Science
Eva Norlyk Smith
Keys to Extending Your Health Span - Yogic Wisdom and Modern Science
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Yoga to Improve Your Health and Well-being: Here's What's Included!
Join Us for These Upcoming 3-Part Courses, Wellness Courses and Mentoring Sessions -
January: Bernie Clark & Dr. Emily Splichal
Join Us on Wednesdays, January 10, 17, 24 - 1:30 pm Eastern / 10:30 am Pacific, Video Recordings Available
Transform your yoga practice with renowned teacher Bernie Clark's 4-part online Yin Yoga course. Learn the foundations of Yin's slower, inward approach targeting connective tissues and joints through long-held poses. Facilitate energy flow, reduce stress, and cultivate mindfulness.
Week 1 covers Yin's three principles and functional alignment. Week 2 focuses on the spine and antifragility. Week 3 explores hip openings and prana energy. Week 4 teaches mindfulness meditations during poses. Included are pose instructions, philosophy, and guided relaxation, providing a unique and gentle Yin Yoga course that deepens and transforms your practice.
Join us Tuesday, January 23 & Thursday, January 25 - 8:00 pm Eastern / 5:00 pm Pacific, plus Video Practice
Discover the connection between gait and longevity in this ground-breaking course with Dr. Emily Splichal. Learn how to use yoga to optimize your gait cycle for improved movement longevity.
Understand the interplay between the nervous system, musculoskeletal system, and fascial system, and how to strengthen and release the muscles of the feet. You'll learn exercises to strengthen foot muscles, enhance stability and mobility, increase proprioception, connect feet to core, and achieve optimal walking speed. Learn how to enhance forward progression and walking speed for movement longevity.
Suitable for yoga instructors, personal trainers, and healthcare professionals.
February BONUS Course with Judith Hanson Lasater!
How to Unlock the Full Potential of Your Core!
Join Us on Tuesday, February 6 & Monday February 12, 2024, 8:00 pm Eastern / 5:00 pm Pacific, Plus Video Practice
Unlock a strong and healthy core with Judith Hanson Lasater's innovative yoga-based approach. Learn how to integrate core-strengthening asanas and breathing practices into your yoga routine and how to incorporate these simple principles into all your daily activities.
Develop abdominal strength, gain greater energy, and move mindfully through daily activities–Utilizing the essentials of yoga asanas for core strength and improved back health. Includes recordings and transcripts and qualifies for 2.5 CEs with Yoga Alliance.
February: Yoga for Healthy Hips with Doug Keller and Yoga for Joint Mobility with Vicky Fox
Join Us on Thursdays, February 8-March 21, 2024, 12:30 pm Eastern / 9:30 am Pacific, Video Recordings Available
This 7-week yoga series with yoga instructor Vicky Fox helps reduce joint pain by improving mobility and building muscle strength. Discover how to create space and stability in the larger joints, find balance in standing postures, and develop a daily practice that supports long-term joint-health benefits.
Each week, we’ll explore gentle poses to lubricate joints while learning proper alignment to take pressure off joints. We’ll recap each week’s progress into a healthy daily habit routine. By the end of this course, you’ll have a toolkit of poses and practices to keep your joints flexible and discomfort-free.
Join us Tuesday, February 20 & Wednesday, February 21, 2024 - 8:00 pm Eastern / 5:00 pm Pacific, Plus Video Practice
Learn Hip openers are among the most satisfying and powerful yoga poses. They hold a tremendous potential for transformation; they can help us release deep-seated tension and trauma of the past, which many of us hold locked in the hip area.
In this webinar, renowned YogaU teacher Doug Keller goes into fundamental principles of yoga alignment as they pertain to the health of the hip joints. He covers a number of the quintessential and foundational 'hip opening' yoga poses, upon which you can build your own practice according to your own needs and abilities, while minimizing the risk of injury or long-term wear and tear.
March: Yoga for Joint Mobility and Yoga for Pelvic Floor Health
Join Us on Thursdays, February 8-March 21, 2024 - 12:30 pm Eastern / 9:30 am Pacific, Video Recordings Available
This 7-week yoga series with yoga instructor Vicky Fox helps reduce joint pain by improving mobility and building muscle strength. Discover how to create space and stability in the larger joints, find balance in standing postures, and develop a daily practice that supports long-term joint-health benefits.
Each week, we’ll explore gentle poses to lubricate joints while learning proper alignment to take pressure off joints. We’ll recap each week’s progress into a healthy daily habit routine. By the end of this course, you’ll have a toolkit of poses and practices to keep your joints flexible and discomfort-free.
Join us Tuesday, March 26, & Thursday, March 28 - 2024 8:00 pm Eastern / 5:00 pm Pacific, Plus Video Practice
Join renowned yoga teacher Leslie Howard for a course exploring the vital functions of the three diaphragms of the body, along with yoga practices to enhance their health and functionality.
This workshop suits individuals interested in understanding and optimizing their breathing, core stability, vocal performance, and overall well-being.
The human body possesses many diaphragms, but the most fundamental are the pelvic diaphragm, the respiratory diaphragm, and the vocal diaphragm. These diaphragms are crucial for breathing, core stability, vocalization, and overall physical health.
April: Somatic Yoga for Fascial Unwinding with James Knight & Rebalancing Your Nervous System with Olga Kabel
Join Us on Wednesdays, April 10-May 1, 2024 1:30 pm Eastern / 10:30 am Pacific, Video Recordings Available
Join James Knight through explorative somatic practices to help you unwind from stressful life experiences stored in our tissues (muscles and fascia).
In this Livestream workshop series, James will guide you into practices that will enliven the fascia, reprogram muscles, and invite the energy to flow more freely throughout the soma. Each class in the series is standalone; however, taken together, the classes are a 4-week consecutive wellness series.
Join us Tuesday, April 23 & Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 8:00 pm Eastern / 5:00 pm Pacific, Plus Video Practice
Feeling tired and 'out of whack'? Learn how to manage your nervous system's "energy budget" with yoga teacher and therapist Olga Kabel. Discover how to make simple and subtle changes to your yoga practice to shift the energetic tone of your body and restore balance to your nervous system–sleep better, reduce stress, and optimize your valuable energy levels.
This course also includes two yoga practices to help you regulate your energy, mood, and overall well-being utilizing yogic tools for inner balance.
May: Keys to Effective Yogic Breathing with Olga Kabel &
Yoga for Enhanced Resilience with Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Join Us on Mondays in May, 2024 4:00 pm Eastern / 1:00 pm Pacific, Video Recordings Available
Consciously connect with your breath and explore powerful yogic breathing techniques to reduce stress, boost energy and focus, and enhance overall well-being. Join experienced yoga therapist Olga Kabel for this 4-part course on integrating breathwork into your yoga practice and daily life. Learn foundational techniques to transform your relationship with your breath.
Each 75-minute session builds upon the last, taking you from breath basics to more advanced practices. Learn how to use your breath to anchor in the present and unlock the immense power of conscious breathing for improved health, performance, and inner peace.
Join Us Tuesday, May 21 & Thursday, May 23, 2024 - 8:00 pm Eastern / 5:00 pm Pacific, Plus Video Practice
Join renowned psychotherapist, yoga teacher, and author Dr. Arielle Schwartz for a 3-part online course where you'll discover a comprehensive, evidence-based approach to building lifelong resilience.
Learn how building resilience and help you greet life's inevitable ups and downs from a place of empowerment instead of fear.
You'll self-assess your own resilience pillars and learn to bolster areas ready for growth. We'll discuss tangible practices that enhance well-being by maximizing strengths rather than "fixing" weaknesses.
June: Charting the Myofasical Lines in Yoga with Doug Keller & A Yin Yoga Formula Healthy Aging with Bernie Clark
Join Us on Wednesdays June 5th-June 26th at 4:30 pm Eastern / 1:30 pm Pacific, Video Recordings Available
Yoga practice has been deeply influenced for many years by the myofascial meridians identified and detailed by Tom Myers in his seminal work, ‘Anatomy Trains.’ The fascial connections between muscles by which the body maintains posture and movement through a whole matrix of ‘tensegrity’ has long provided insights for massage and movement therapists and holds promise for a deep understanding of the dynamics of yoga asana practice.
In this practice series, renowned yoga teacher Doug Keller explains these ideas in yoga terms and shows you how to apply them. He links meridians to fundamental poses—benefit from his guidance in all-levels, repeatable practices. More than working muscles, meridians stimulate nerves for deeper effects. Learn new insights to give a deeper dimension to your practice.
Join Us Tuesday, June 25 & Thursday, June 27, 2024 - 8:00 pm Eastern / 5:00 pm Pacific, Plus Video Practice
In this comprehensive 3-part online course with renowned Yin Yoga expert Bernie Clark, you will learn how to tap into your body's innate capacity to adapt and grow stronger through appropriate stress.
Drawing from emerging research on anti-fragility, this course will provide you with safe, accessible tools to develop resilience against injury and increase longevity. Ultimately, this course will provide you with an essential skill set for maintaining exceptional joint health and soft tissue function over the long term.
You will gain practical wisdom to support anti-fragility daily through safe, managed stress, with Bernie's decades of experience.
With a Platinum Membership, Also Get These Great Registration Bonuses!
Live Mentoring Sessions with Lynn Crimando & Eva Norlyk Smith
Discover the Art of Creating Lasting Transformation and Personal Growth with Lynn Crimando and Eva Norlyk Smith
Learn how to maximize the benefits of Yoga as Lifestyle Medicine and how to personalize what you are learning to your unique situation.
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Beyond Posture: Finding Your Inner Yoga with
Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee
In this unique series of talks, two of yoga’s most experienced and versatile teachers, Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee share their insights into how to immerse yourself in the deeper aspects of practice, and find your inner yoga. Learning to tune in to your inner compass will guide you in your practice and often opens new, unexpected dimensions of experience.
“The compass inside is not just the tactile sensation of your muscles and skin against the bone and the movement of your vital organs. The navigation inside is also the way the breath flows through the channel of the body and even more subtle, how the Prana vibrates through those channels.
Assessment Tools for Yoga Teachers and Practitioners with Julie Gudmestad
The most foundational yoga pose of all is Tadasana or Mountain Pose. Tadasana demands just one simple thing: that we stand with good posture in a way that supports the natural curves of a healthy spine.
In our Western sedentary society, however, it’s surprisingly difficult for most yoga students to achieve correct alignment in Tadasana. Modern life conspires against good posture; we spend our days sitting at desks, staring at computer screens. The result is an epidemic of back and neck problems linked to poor posture and bad alignment habits.
Bonus Yoga Practice Videos!
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We are working hard to add some exciting new services and programs to make high quality yoga training available online and better serve the continuing education needs of yoga teachers and yoga practitioners. You help make that possible!
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Yes, I want to enroll in the Online Yoga as Lifestyle Medicine Study Program as a Founding Member and get access to all upcoming 3-part courses and/or Livestream Yoga Wellness Practice Courses, plus all the Bonuses! I'm looking forward to studying with expert yoga teachers and yoga therapists without having to spend big money or travel long distances!
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I understand that to give everyone equal terms, enrollment in the Online Yoga as Medicine Studies Program is only open twice a year, for the Spring/Summer semester and Fall/Winter semester. Depending on the track I choose, the monthly fee will include the live 3-part Yoga as Medicine courses and/or the Livestream Yoga Wellness Practice courses that are held during the months of enrollment.
I also understand that I will be automatically enrolled in all upcoming YogaU Teacher Ed and/or Livestream Yoga Wellness courses and will have access to all the free talks and the recordings depending on which track I am enrolled in.
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