Clinical Applications of Yoga Therapy for Integrated Care
Advanced, scope-appropriate yoga therapy trainings for client care in behavioral health, healthcare, and integrated settings.
Board-approved continuing education for mental health and helping professionals*
The Gap These Trainings Address
Yoga therapy is increasingly integrated into mental health and healthcare environments. Yet many clinicians and allied professionals receive little guidance on how to apply body-based, breathwork, and meditation practices ethically, safely, and within their professional scope when working directly with clients.
Without clear frameworks, well intentioned use of yoga-based techniques can drift into role confusion, overreach, or practices that are poorly matched to client presentation, tolerance, or readiness. This is especially true when working with trauma exposure, anxiety, depression, neurodivergence, or within structured treatment models such as EMDR.
Why These Trainings Exist
The Clinical Applications of Yoga Therapy for Integrated Care CE trainings were designed to address that gap.
These continuing education courses provide advanced, applied instruction for professionals who already work in client care roles and want to integrate yoga therapy and somatic practices responsibly within their existing scope of practice. The emphasis is on ethical application, clinical reasoning, risk awareness, and collaboration within integrated care systems.
Who These Trainings Are For
These continuing education trainings are designed for licensed and client-facing professionals working in behavioral health, healthcare, and integrated service settings.
- Mental health clinicians and therapists
- Social workers and counselors
- Psychologists and psychiatrists
- Nurses and other healthcare professionals
- Client-facing staff and advocates in public sector or integrated care roles
Scope and Professional Boundaries
These courses are continuing education for professionals. They are not yoga teacher training, psychotherapy training, and do not qualify participants to practice or represent themselves as yoga therapists.
Course content supports scope-appropriate use of yoga therapy-informed techniques by professionals already working in client-facing roles, within existing licensure, credentialing, or organizational scope. Trainings focus on how to select, adapt, and introduce these techniques as supportive, adjunctive tools for nervous system regulation and functional engagement, while maintaining clear professional boundaries and referral pathways.
Trainer Qualifications
All courses in this category are taught by yoga therapists who hold the C-IAYT credential or equivalent qualifications and meet ClinicAlly Trained trainer standards for integrated care application. Instruction assumes participants already hold a professional role that includes direct client contact and decision making responsibility within behavioral health, healthcare, education, or human services.
What makes these trainings different is how application is taught.
Rather than focusing on generalized techniques, each course emphasizes:
- Clear scope of practice differentiation
- Trauma-informed and safety-centered delivery
- Contraindications and risk recognition
- Client communication and consent language
- Adaptation across office, telehealth, and institutional settings
- Integration alongside existing treatment models rather than replacement
Participants learn not only what practices may be helpful, but when not to use them, how to modify them, and when referral or collaboration is required.
CE Course Offerings for Integrated Care
Each continuing education course focuses on a specific client population or clinical context, with applied methods and frameworks, experiential learning, and case-based instruction to support safe real-world use.
Courses range from 3 to 12 CE hours. Approval details available within each course.
Foundations of Yoga Somatics for Integrated Care: Applied Yoga Somatics™
12 hours
NASW-CT-approved for 12 CECs
When talk-based approaches escalate distress or fail to restore regulation, clinicians need practical alternatives. This course introduces trauma-informed yoga somatics as a scope-appropriate way to help dysregulated individuals settle, orient, and regain stability in real time.
Designed for high stress behavioral health settings, the training focuses on how to introduce, cue, and deliver movement and grounding strategies that support nervous system regulation across offices, hospitals, shelters, mobile response, and telehealth.
Therapeutic Breathwork for Mental Health: The Pneumetric Breath Method™
6 hours
NASW-CT-approved for 6 CECs
Breathwork is increasingly used in mental health settings, yet improper selection or pacing can increase risk, especially for trauma-exposed populations. This online course provides an evidence-informed framework for evaluating, selecting, and adapting breathing practices to support nervous system regulation safely. Designed for behavioral health and social service professionals, it teaches a physiology-based decision making model for safe, ethical use in client care and professional regulation.
Clinical Applications of Yoga Therapy for Trauma
3 hours
NASW-CT-approved for 3 CECs
This course introduces yoga therapy-informed somatic, breath-based, and awareness practices that support safety, stabilization, and nervous system regulation for trauma-exposed clients. Emphasis is placed on scope-appropriate application, risk identification, and contraindication awareness, particularly for clients experiencing hyperarousal, shutdown, dissociation, or overwhelm.
Participants learn how to adapt foundational practices for use in-office and telehealth settings without engaging in trauma processing, narrative exposure, or re-experiencing. Instruction integrates trauma-informed communication, Polyvagal-informed practice selection, and ethical decision-making so professionals can support regulation while maintaining clear clinical boundaries and referral pathways.
Clinical Applications of Yoga Therapy for Anxiety
3 hours
NASW-CT-approved for 3 CECs
This training focuses on yoga therapy-informed strategies for addressing the nervous system patterns underlying anxiety, including disrupted breathing, autonomic overactivation, and interoceptive sensitivity. Participants learn how to select and adapt movement, breathwork, sound, and meditation practices that reduce overwhelm without triggering panic or shutdown.
Instruction emphasizes evidence-informed practice selection, contraindication awareness, and differentiation between state-based anxiety relief and longer-term nervous system resilience and regulation support. Application is framed within integrated care contexts, supporting ethical use alongside psychotherapy, medication, and other behavioral health interventions.
Clinical Applications of Yoga Therapy for Depression
3 hours
NASW-CT-approved for 3 CECs
This course explores yoga therapy-informed approaches for supporting clients experiencing depressive symptoms such as low energy, withdrawal, fatigue, indecision, and difficulty initiating action. Emphasis is placed on selecting practices that support activation, reconnection, and remission without overwhelming limited capacity or exacerbating fatigue.
Participants learn how nervous system dysregulation, inflammation, and altered brain function contribute to depressive symptoms, and how carefully paced movement, breathwork, chanting, and meditation may support engagement, reduced inflammation, and functional momentum. Instruction prioritizes ethical scope, contraindication recognition, and integration with existing treatment plans rather than replacement of clinical care.
Teaching Neurodiversity-Affirming Yoga Somatics
3 hours
NASW-CT-approved for 3 CECs
Non-clinical integrated care training
This non-clinical course prepares participants to adapt yoga somatics practices in ways that affirm neurodivergent experiences rather than pathologize them. Content addresses ADHD, autism, sensory processing differences, dyspraxia, dyslexia, and related profiles through a neurophysiological and biopsychosocial lens.
Participants learn how to modify language, pacing, sequencing, sensory input, and participation structures to support autonomy, predictability, regulation, and presence. Instruction emphasizes accessibility, consent-based teaching, and functional outcomes, without clinical assessment, diagnosis, or therapeutic intervention.
Integrating Yoga Therapy Techniques in EMDR Part 1: Somatics and Breathwork
3 hours
EMDRIA- and APA-approved for 3 CECs
This course introduces EMDR-trained clinicians to scope-appropriate ways yoga therapy-informed somatic and breath-based practices may support preparation, regulation, and stabilization within EMDR-informed care. Emphasis is placed on adjunctive use during early phases of treatment, particularly when clients experience difficulty tolerating activation or early distress.
Participants learn how Polyvagal-informed and whole person koshic frameworks can guide safe practice selection without interfering with EMDR protocols or trauma processing. Instruction reinforces clear boundaries between somatic support and psychotherapy, with attention to communication, pacing, and ethical integration.
Integrating Yoga Therapy Techniques in EMDR Part 2: Meditation
3 hours
EMDRIA- and APA-approved for 3 CECs
Building on Part 1, this course focuses on adapting meditation and awareness practices for use alongside EMDR therapy, particularly during phases where distress, cognitive fusion, or post-session dysregulation may arise. Instruction draws on neuroscience, Polyvagal Theory, and whole person models from Koshic Theory to support safe, accessible meditation for trauma-exposed clients.
Participants learn when meditation may be helpful, when it may be contraindicated, and how to introduce practices that support cognitive defusion (thought awareness with detachment) and nervous system stability without intensifying dissociation or overwhelm. Application remains adjunctive and scope-appropriate, supporting EMDR rather than modifying or replacing it.
Important Scope Clarification
These trainings do not authorize diagnosis, psychotherapy, trauma processing, or medical treatment. They are designed to support ethical, scope appropriate use of yoga therapy techniques as part of integrated care, adjunctive support, or interdisciplinary collaboration.
Participants are expected to apply course content only within their existing professional scope of practice and in alignment with licensing, credentialing, and organizational policies.
These courses may be taken as standalone continuing education offerings or applied toward ClinicAlly Trained’s Therapeutic Breathwork and Yoga Somatics for Integrated Care specialty certification pathway, where applicable.
Course Format
Self-paced online learning with video instruction, demonstrations, and applied teaching examples designed for professional use in client care and integrated settings.
CE Credit
Continuing education credit availability varies by course. Specific approvals and credit details are listed on individual course pages.
Upcoming Live Online Trainings
Clinical Applications of Yoga Therapy for Anxiety
For Client Care
Live Webinar January 22, 2026
3 hours
Anxiety is often treated as a cognitive issue even when disrupted breathing and autonomic arousal are driving symptoms. This training focuses on yoga therapy tools that address the nervous system patterns underlying anxiety.
Participants learn how to select movement, breathing, sound, and meditation practices that reduce overwhelm and support calm without triggering panic or shutdown, alongside existing mental health care.
When Helping Hurts: Chronic Back and Neck Pain
Movement-Based Stress Regulation for Frontline Professionals
For Professional Resilience
Live Webinar March 5, 2026
1.5 hours
Chronic stress often shows up as persistent tension in the neck, shoulders, and low back that does not resolve with rest alone. This training focuses on simple, accessible movement strategies that reduce stress-driven muscle holding and pain patterns, restoring ease without requiring strenuous exercise.
Participants learn tools that can be used during or after work shifts to support physical recovery.
When Helping Hurts: Sleep Disturbances
Restorative and Diurnal Strategies for Stress Recovery
For Professional Resilience
Live Webinar March 5, 2026
1.5 hours
Stress commonly disrupts sleep, leaving helping professionals exhausted even if time in bed is adequate. This training focuses on restoring natural sleep rhythms through gentle movement, breathwork, and restorative practices that support the nervous system and diurnal rhythms.
Participants learn practical strategies to improve sleep quality and reduce nighttime hyperarousal without relying on willpower or sleep aids.
On-Demand Trainings Available Now
Therapeutic Breathwork for Mental Health: The Pneumetric Breath Method™
For Client Care
For Professional Resilience
6 hours
Breathwork is increasingly used in mental health settings, yet improper selection or pacing can increase risk, especially for trauma-exposed populations. This online course provides an evidence-informed framework for evaluating, selecting, and adapting breathing practices to support nervous system regulation safely. Designed for behavioral health and social service professionals, it teaches a physiology-based decision making model for safe, ethical use in client care and professional regulation.
Approved for 6 CECs from the CT-NASW.
Integrating Yoga Therapy in EMDR Part 1: Somatics and Breathwork
and
Integrating Yoga Therapy in EMDR Part 2: Meditation
For Client Care
Both courses have EMDRIA and APA approval for 3 CECs each.
Part 1 explores how to integrate somatic and breathwork techniques into the EMDR process.
In Part 2, learn how to integrate meditation techniques into the EMDR process.
Offered through our partners at The Steve Frankel Group.
On-Demand Webinars
Training for Organizations and Clinical Teams
ClinicAlly Trained provides board-approved continuing education for organizations supporting client-facing work in behavioral health, healthcare, and integrated service settings*. Trainings equip staff with practical, body-based strategies that help clients settle, reduce escalation, and engage more effectively in care, while also supporting staff regulation and resilience.
Programs are available for teams or departments through group access to existing courses or customized training aligned with organizational needs and workforce development goals.
Relevant Outcomes
- Evidence-based breathwork and body-based strategies for trauma-aware calming without triggering
- More consistent, safer responses to anxiety and emotional escalation
- Stronger therapeutic rapport and client engagement
- Reduced staff strain and burnout in high-stress client-facing roles
Examples of existing state, agency, and professional partnerships include the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS), the Connecticut Women’s Consortium, and the Steve Frankel Group.
Live In-Person Trainings and Partnerships
ClinicAlly Trained provides live continuing education through contracted state and agency partnerships with public sector organizations.
DMHAS Trainings
Approximately eight to ten live trainings per year are delivered for Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services employees and staff of DMHAS-contracted organizations. Registration and access are managed through DMHAS and participating agencies.
Connecticut Women’s Consortium
Approximately four to six live trainings per year are offered through the Connecticut Women’s Consortium and listed in their official Women’s Consortium training catalogue. Registration is handled directly through the Consortium.
Steve Frankel Group
ClinicAlly Trained has developed a set of integrated care trainings in collaboration with Steve Frankel Group, a leading provider of EMDRIA-approved continuing education. These trainings are offered in both live virtual and on demand formats and are available for registration through the Steve Frankel Group with additional related course content available through ClinicAlly Trained.
Interested in bringing a training to your organization?
Contact us to discuss contracted or customized training options.