The Yogi Facilitator Leadership Program

A comprehensive professional certificate + mentoring program

Developed and directed by clinical psychologist, yoga and mindfulness facilitator Kristin Vikjord

This training is for you who help others helping themselves.

For: yoga teachers, yoga therapists, spiritual guides, health care personel, coaches and psychologists

The Program give you

Competence in mental health and and how to empower emotional wellbeing
A unique community and collegial relationships
Fill your toolbox with efficient and potent practices and interventions
The bridge between yoga and (clinical) psychology, of research and experiental
Skills to hold difficult emotions and guide transformational processes

For you who want

More tools and practices to empower mental and emotional wellbeing
To feel supported and professionally belonging
To understand the underlying mechanisms of emotional and mental health
To hold and move difficult emotions
To unravel the bridge between yoga, psychology and mental health
To transformational nuggets and skills
To learn fundamental neuropsychology

Kristin has been supervising our project and teacher team since 2016. Kristin´s knowledge, wisdom, authenticity and compassionate nature has been priceless for the growth of our team and essential for the wellbeing of the incarcerated individuals we work with. Kristin is an amazing woman who is not afraid to get to the heart of the matter. We are very grateful to work with her.
- Carolien Pentinga, Founder Prison Yoga Project The Netherlands
Kristin is a gentle, empathic and a highly professional therapist with a gift for communication and connection with others. This allows her to be one of the most influential teachers in Europe in the field of Yoga for the Mind.
- Montserrat G. Mukherjee, founder The Yoga Therapy Institute
This program has been a very valuable addition to my yoga teacher trainings. It gave me a better understanding of the mechanisms of emotional and mental wellbeing, and a stronger foundation on how to facilitate yoga when teaching one to one classes. Kristin combines so beautifully the science of psychology and yoga, and I`m very impressed by Kristin’s ability to guide a group. Even in an online training she creates a safe and joyful learning environment for every participant!
- José - yoga therapist
The training gave me a deeper understanding on how to incorporate Mindful Yoga practices in work. I especially appreciated learning about the breaths effect on the nervous system, and it´s significance for toning parasympaticus, and how to share this with my patients. I work with people that live with high degree of unease, and these practices helped them to increase body awareness and strengthen their daily resilience. With this approach complimentary to conventional therapy, my patients reports better emotional regulation, and experienced agency in creating ease when in unease.
- Siri, psychiatric nurse/clinical consultant in outpatient treatment
The program gave me insight on how to adapt and accommodate the various tools of yoga to various patients conditions. In addition, it was very inspiring to meet other health care workers also applying yoga in therapy, and being able to discuss the application with collegues.
- Sidsel, Psycomotoric Physiotherapist - Inpatient treatment
Learning Mindful Yoga as Applied Practice for mental and emotional health was a not only a common ground to explore theory, and practice, but also a great inspiration for projects and establishing important collegial contact for collaboration. The training embodied how basic principles from the vast yoga tradition and updated science can ameliorate mental symptoms and foster more meaning and joy in life.
- Gunnar - Psychiatrist and co-author `Yoga i Terapi´