Yoga in Healthcare
with Joseph Le Page

A 36-hour live virtual training November 3, 2026 - February 9, 2027
Meets weekly on Tuesdays from 8:30-11:30 AM MT

Integrating yoga into clinical settings demands more than general practices; it requires structured, tested protocols that honor the full depth of the tradition. This training provides a comprehensive, whole-person framework designed to elevate your clinical competence and expand your therapeutic reach.

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A time-tested therapeutic yoga approach to managing chronic stress and illness.

Pioneered by Joseph Le Page for over 30 years through the Healthy Heart Program.

Program Overview & Certification

In this training, you will study the Healthy Heart Program as a clinical foundation for integrating therapeutic yoga into mainstream healthcare. You will learn to weave asana, pranayama, mudra, Yoga Nidra, affirmations, and meditation into structured, multi-week programs for healthcare settings—including protocols for anxiety, depression, and stress-related conditions.

What you will receive

  • Full Certification: Certified to teach the 12-week Healthy Heart Program.
  • Complete Turnkey Curriculum: Comprehensive materials, weekly teaching scripts, and step-by-step instructional guides for every session.
  • Program Design Framework: The methodology to develop and share your own multi-week therapeutic yoga offerings to clinical institutions.

The 12-Week Curriculum

  • A New Vision of Health — Understanding stress-related conditions and the foundations of self-care.
  • Developing a Body-Positive Attitude — Cultivating body awareness, acceptance, and somatic self-care.
  • Cultivating Healthy Posture — Optimal alignment, postural awareness, and injury prevention.
  • Cultivating a Healthy Lifestyle — Aligning diet, daily routines (dinacharya), and sleep for sustainable vitality.
  • Optimizing Your Breath — Breath mechanics for autonomic regulation and psycho-emotional equanimity.
  • Learning to Relax — Somatic down-regulation and diverse relaxation practices tailored to individual nervous systems.
  • Cultivating Vital Energy — Enhancing vitality and systemic balance through the subtle energy and chakra systems.
  • Becoming Comfortable with Feelings — Developing the witness state (sakshi) to process emotions without reactivity.
  • Opening the Heart — Cultivating forgiveness, compassion, acceptance, and gratitude.
  • Understanding the Causes of Stress — Uncovering the underlying beliefs and cognitive patterns driving chronic stress.
  • Meditation: The Art of Living in Peace — Individualizing meditation practices for long-term mental clarity.
  • Identifying Life’s Purpose and Meaning — Clarifying core values and purpose (dharma) to anchor lifelong well-being.
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Professional Outcomes:

  • Integrate Therapeutic Protocols into Healthcare: Gain the clinical confidence and terminology required to present, propose, and implement structured therapeutic yoga programs within hospitals, clinics, and wellness centers.
  • Master Multidimensional Program Design: Learn how to seamlessly weave asana, pranayama, mudra, Yoga Nidra, and meditation into cohesive, theme-based interventions tailored for stress-related chronic conditions.
  • Create Specialized Clinical Offerings: Acquire the framework to develop and launch your own multi-week specialty programs for specific populations, including anxiety, depression, hypertension, and chronic pain.
  • Earn Continuing Education Credits: Fulfill elective hours toward your 800-hour IAYT Yoga Therapy certification or earn Approved Professional Development (APD) hours for C-IAYT renewal.
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Details, Eligibility and Continuing Education:

  • Course dates: Nov 3, 2026 - Feb 9, 2027, meets weekly on Tuesdays 8:30-11:30 MT. No class on 11/24, 12/22, or 12/29. Twelve classes and 36 hours total.
  • All sessions will be recorded in the event you are unable to attend live.
  • Global Community: Open to yoga teachers and therapists from all traditions.
  • Inner Peace students: Count this as 36 hrs of Advanced Requirements or 1 of your 7 mentorships.
  • C-IAYTs: Earn 36 hours of Approved Professional Development (APD) continuing education credits.
  • This course qualifies for 36 hours of Continuing Education from the Yoga Alliance.
  • Inner Peace Students: This course is a core requirement for the 800-hour certification.

Cancellation Policy

  • No-shows will not receive a refund and will forfeit the full payment.
  • Fees, once paid (in part or in full), are non-refundable and non-transferable.

Recommended Reading

  • Mudras for Healing and Transformation by Joseph Le Page and Lillian Aboim
  • Why Zebras don't get Ulcers by Robert Sapolsky

Tuition Fee: $650 (or 3 monthly payments of $225), payable below

Questions?

Contact Michele Lawrence, Inner Peace Yoga Therapy Program Director | [email protected]

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About Joseph

Joseph’s innate desire for wholeness led him to his first Yoga class in 1973, and his first meditation retreat at the Tibetan Buddhist Samye Ling Tibetan Center in Scotland, with his first trip to India in 1975. He made six subsequent journeys to India for study in Yoga, Yoga Therapy, and Ayurveda, including the Yoga Therapy in India video project which presents all the major centers of Yoga Therapy together with interviews of their leading representatives. He is a graduate of Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training and Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy training. His master’s degree in teaching has supported his development of experiential education methodologies.

He founded Integrative Yoga and Integrative Yoga Therapy in 1993 and is a pioneer in the field of Yoga therapy training programs. He began teaching yoga therapy in hospital settings in 1995 and continues up to the present as Director of The Healthy Heart Program, which conducts Yoga Therapy group programs in public health settings throughout Brazil.

Joseph has been a speaker at major conferences including Yoga Journal, the International Association of Yoga Therapists, the Kripalu Yoga Teacher’s Association, the International Association of Yoga and Ayurveda, and others. Joseph has received the title of Yoga Chikitsa Ratna (Jewel of Yoga Therapy), from the Indian Yoga Association in 2024, for his service to humanity. 

He is co-founder and director of the Enchanted Mountain Yoga Center in Garopaba, Brazil, one of the largest Yoga retreat centers in South America. He is the co-author of the book Yoga Toolbox for Teacher and Students, one of the most widely used materials in teacher training programs in the US and in Brazil, published by Integrative Yoga. He is also co-author of the book Mudras for Healing and Transformation, also published by Integrative Yoga.