The Yogi Facilitator

A professional training for yoga teachers and therapists, health care workers such as specialised physiotherapists, nurses, psychologists, and medical doctors.

A leadership training and certificate program in Mindful Yoga as Applied Practice. Empowering you to become a highly skilled facilitator of yoga and mindfulness for mental health and emotional well-being. This training is for you who help others through challenging times.

This training is experientially based, and includes the underlying theory of applied practice, research, and teaching practicum. The format of the training supports deepening the experience of the practice, and going into your own process, in addition to integration of material and insights between gatherings.

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Faculty

Kristin Vikjord Paternotte & Janice Gates

The Yogi Facilitator leadership training is led by a highly experienced teacher faculty, who have been teaching professionals both in North America and Europe the last decade.

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Location

Mandali Retreat Center – Omegna, Italy

We have chosen this exquisite hilltop retreat center in the north of Italy, surrounded by the beauty of nature to support a sense of spaciousness while allowing for the deepening of your inner experience.

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"MFY gave me a deeper understanding of the breaths effect on the nervous system, and it´s significance for toning parasympaticus, and how to share this with patients. For patients with mental health suffering and a high degree of unease, this approach has contributed to increase body awareness, and highten tolerance for embodying the suffering. They reported better emotional regulation, and most importantly the experience of agency in creating ease when in unease."
- Siri, psychiatric nurse and clinical consultant in outpatient treatment
"The MFY program gave me insight on how to adapt and accommodate the various tools of yoga to patients conditions. In addition, it was very inspiring to meet other health care workers also applying yoga in therapy, and being able to discuss 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 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´