Timothy McCall, M.D.
September 9 – 16, 2012

Yoga Alliance Hrs: 37 (approximate)
Tuition: $550.
Add seven nights accommodations and meals: Dorm: $465; Private Room/Shared Bath: $590
Private Room/Private Bath: $685; Tent: $315

Join physician, author, and yogi Dr. Timothy McCall to discover—or deepen your appreciation of—the potential of using yoga as medicine for everything from depression to infertility to heart disease. Explore the vast toolbox, including postures, breathing techniques, relaxation, chanting, visualization, meditation, and philosophical ideas, and learn how these tools can be adapted to meet everyone’s needs—young or old, fit or unfit, healthy or seriously ill. Beyond relieving symptoms or even curing disease, yoga as medicine is a path to high-level physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

Practice assessing students structurally, energetically (including Ayurveda), psychologically, and spiritually, and plan therapeutic programs. Beyond relieving symptoms or even curing disease, yoga as medicine is a path to high-level physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing.

Areas of focus will include:

• The ancient yogic formula for changing dysfunctional habits
• Anatomical principles that deepen yoga practice and make it safer
• The vital link between breath, nervous system and mind
• Reconciling yoga and modern science.
• Practicing safely with various health challenges
• Ayurvedic insights that deepen the therapeutic yoga potential

In addition to lecturing and leading participants through a variety of yoga practices, Dr. McCall will personally conduct a private yoga therapy session on one of the students from the workshop in front of the group for teaching purposes. In addition, there will be group yoga therapy exercises, with some participants serving as patients, and others acting as yoga therapists, under the supervision of Timothy and his assistants.

For yoga students of all levels, yoga teachers and health-care professionals.

Timothy McCall, M.D., is a board-certified specialist in internal medicine and a dedicated yoga practitioner who has traveled to India and throughout the United States observing, training with, and interviewing the world’s leading yoga teachers and therapists. He is the medical editor of Yoga Journal, and is the author of Yoga as Medicine: The Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing (Bantam). Timothy studies with a traditional Ayurvedic Vaidhya (doctor) in Kerala, India and with a Tantric master in Bangalore. His primary yoga teacher since 1995 has been Patricia Walden. He, and dozens of his articles, can be found on the web at www.DrMcCall.com.

“This is a landmark book. Yoga as Medicine provides a remarkable perspective on the breadth and depth of Yoga therapy, and many leading practitioners, both in the West and India, in a uniquely educational, engaging, and inspiring way.” —John Kepner, Executive Director, Int’l Association of Yoga Therapists

“If you care about your body and want to learn to listen more carefully to its messages, and to take good care of it over the long haul, you will find this book a godsend, whether you are young or old, firm or infirm, a new-comer to Yoga or an old-timer.  It is the first comprehensive medical look at the benefits of Yoga and its therapeutic uses.  Timothy McCall has done a great service to the field of mind/body medicine”. —Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Medical School

Testimonials from Recent Workshop Attendees

“(He is) a gem in the Yoga community. The mixture of (his) medical background, Yoga knowledge, and down-to-earth way of presenting is much appreciated. Helping people is what this is all about for me, and knowledge such as (his) provides me with deeper resources and science to back it.”

“Knowledgeable, professional while at the same time humble and not ostentatious. Very helpful in addressing issues and understanding of problems. A great teacher who sincerely wants to share knowledge and help.”

“Dr. McCall offers a very exciting and balanced perspective. He beautifully integrates and examines Western science with holistic approaches to Yoga.”

“Dr. McCall exceeded my expectations.  He offered lots of scientific material and a wealth of knowledge from his unique, professional opinions based on fact and experience.  He gave a great presentation, which was interesting, dynamic and funny.”

“A truly perfect blend of theory and practice. Dr. McCall is a wonderful presenter—great sense of humor, kind, clear.”

“Very helpful. As a physician, I was impressed at his calmness. I haven’t been to a course recently where the “keynote speaker” wasn’t dashing off in a mad hurry to get a plane to go back home. Can really tell he believes and practices what he preaches.”

To enroll, please call: 800 858 9642 or register directly online.

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