Functional Yoga Therapy:
Preparatory Skills and Tools
with Maria Shamas

Live in-person training June 6-9, 2024
at Santosha Yoga Collective, Loomis CA

Have you ever had students show up to your class asking for individualized advice based on an injury or postural imbalance? Were you able to handle it confidently or did it leave you afraid and unsure of what to do? Do you ever wish you could work privately with clients to help them regain balance after an injury or surgery like a knee replacement? 

Then this training is for you. It is designed to address these challenges and empower you to provide personalized support to your students and clients.

Course Description

This module explores advanced anatomy and its relationship to physical movement; along with practical treatment applications. The human body will be studied as a sacred temple with all of its myriad complexities for both assessment and individualized therapeutic application. Participants will be guided in teachings pertaining to advanced postural assessment, range of motion, basic muscle strength & flexibility testing, practical Ayurvedic concepts related to the assessment and treatment process, understanding of the client’s emotional anatomy and training in practitioner sensitivity & awareness. Participants will both experience and facilitate all assessment techniques taught, through this gaining a more thorough understanding of specific symptomatic presenting issues, while maintaining the greater focus of the client as a fully integrative whole human being.

During this course, you will:

  • Explore advanced anatomy and its practical applications in treatment
  • Learn techniques for advanced postural assessment and range of motion
  • Gain insights into basic muscle strength and flexibility testing
  • Discover Ayurvedic concepts relevant to the assessment and treatment process
  • Understand the emotional anatomy of your clients
  • Develop practitioner sensitivity and awareness

Pre-requisites: This training requires approximately 8 hours of prework, which will be distributed in advance of the course.

Required materials include a Functional Yoga Therapy Ball Kit, which must be purchased here.

Daily Schedule: Generally speaking, the program’s daily schedule is as follows: (Times are listed in Pacific Time)

  • 8:00-12:00 morning class (with 1 15-minute break)
  • 12:00-1:00 lunch
  • 1:00-5:00 afternoon class (with 1 15-minute break)

Questions? Contact info@innerpeaceyogatherapy.com.

This training provides 40 credits toward Yoga Therapy certification and 40 Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Units.

Tuition: $700, payable below.

Order Summary
Functional Yoga Therapy Level 1 Training

About Maria.

Maria has a rich history in the field of wellness, yoga therapeutics and Ayurveda. She is an RN, with an MS in Community Health and extensive work in the fields of Rehabilitation and Women’s Health. She went on to receive extensive teacher training in yoga, and then yoga therapeutics, and has both a private practice in yoga therapy, ayurvedic consultation, and an extensive teaching curriculum for advanced students of yoga therapy. She teaches with Inner Peace Yoga Therapy, and then with her own Maria Alive Therapeutics.