This Training Is Designed For Professionals Who:
- Notice digestive symptoms during periods of chronic work stress
- Experience nervous stomach, urgency, reflux, constipation, or irregular appetite during demanding workdays
- Want to understand how stress affects the gut brain axis and digestive function
- Are looking for practical ways to calm the nervous stomach, irregularity, IBS, constipation, or pelvic tension during stressful situations
- Want simple movement and breath practices that support digestive comfort and professional sustainability
When Stress Shows Up in the Gut
Helping professionals working in high demand roles frequently experience digestive symptoms during periods of chronic occupational stress. Nervous stomach, abdominal discomfort, urgency, reflux, constipation, or irregular appetite often appear when the nervous system remains under pressure.
These symptoms are closely connected to the gut-brain axis, a communication system between the nervous system and digestive function that is highly sensitive to stress physiology.
Understanding the Gut-Brain Axis
In this course, participants explore how sustained stress activation, disrupted breathing patterns, and loss of internal rhythm can influence digestive motility, visceral sensitivity, and internal awareness. Understanding these relationships helps explain why digestive symptoms often appear during periods of chronic stress.
Learn Yoga Therapy Practices for Calming the Digestive System
Participants learn simple movement, breathwork, and relaxation practices designed to support digestive regulation.
The course focuses on three practical applications:
- Calming the nervous stomach
- Relieving gastrointestinal irregularity and IBS symptoms
- Reducing constipation and pelvic tension
These practices focus on improving nervous system balance, breathing mechanics, and gentle abdominal and pelvic mobility.
What You Leave With
Participants leave the course with practical tools and a simple, personalized digestive care plan that includes one regulation practice and one lifestyle strategy.
The course also introduces self assessment tools and symptom tracking methods that help professionals monitor digestive patterns and recognize when symptoms may require modification of practices or referral for medical or behavioral health care.
The goal is greater digestive stability, improved nervous system regulation, and stronger resilience in demanding helping roles.
Course Format:
Self-paced online learning with approximately two hours of video instruction, demonstrations, and guided practices. You have one year to complete the course.
CE Credit:
2 CT-NASW CECs
This program has been approved for Continuing Education Credit Hours by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for CT Social Work Licensure renewal. Approval also meets the continuing
education criteria for CT LMSWs, LMFTs, LPCs, and licensed psychologists.
Tuition:
$29. Course content is available for one year after purchase.
Instructor:
Christine Saari, MA, C-IAYT
About Your Instructors
Christine Saari, MA, C-IAYT
Director, ClinicAlly Trained™ | Co-Founder, Yoga Therapy Associates
Christine Saari, MA, C-IAYT, is an author, educator, and yoga therapist dedicated to bridging yoga therapy and mental health care. As Director of ClinicAlly Trained™, she develops specialized continuing education and yoga teacher training programs for clinicians who want to integrate evidence-based somatic and breath-based interventions into therapy practice.
Christine’s clinical background centers on supporting individuals living with anxiety, trauma, depression, and cancer. As a breast cancer survivor, she brings lived experience and clinical expertise together with genuine compassion, recognizing both the depth of suffering people carry and the practical tools that support real healing.
As co-founder of Yoga Therapy Associates and ClinicAlly Trained™, Christine envisions a professional platform where yoga therapy and behavioral health meet. Her work emphasizes elevating best practices, strengthening ethical standards, and ensuring that yoga therapy is represented with the same rigor and accountability expected in clinical disciplines.
Through a partnership between Yoga Therapy Associates and the Held Center for Healing, Christine helped develop the EMbody Trauma Recovery Program, an IOP alternative for individuals recovering from addiction and trauma that combines EMDR and yoga therapy. She has also presented multiple times at Smilow Cancer Center at Yale New Haven Hospital on yoga therapy for emotional and physical recovery. In addition, she provides continuing education for DMHAS, the Connecticut Women’s Consortium, and EMDRIA’s national webinar catalog, teaching clinicians how to integrate yoga therapy and breathwork into trauma treatment.
Christine’s writing and teaching reflect a deep commitment to professionalizing yoga therapy, making it accessible, research-informed, and relevant to the realities of modern clinical practice.
Learn more about Christine’s work at www.yogatherapyassociates.com/about/christine-yoga-therapist and explore her specialized programs for therapists at www.clinicallytrained.com.