Body Intelligence & Therapeutic Relationship

October 30-31 & November 1

Introduction to Yoga Therapy | The beginnings of suffering, body alignment, and regulation of the nervous system

This first weekend will transform your perspective. You will learn to recognize suffering before it crystallizes into pathology, to read the nervous system's alertness behind a rigid posture, and to understand how breath, mind, and body structure interact. You will begin to think like a therapist by learning to observe, analyze, and regulate.

• The origins of suffering in yogic and Buddhist philosophy
• The 5 Koshas and their
  Imbalances: from the dense body to the subtle
• The 6 stages of disease according to Ayurveda
• The mechanisms of pain and its expression
• Nociception and modern understanding of pain
• Postural assessment: static observation, movement and body language
• What posture reveals about the mind
• Regulating cardiac and emotional activity through breathing
• The role of CO₂ and "less is more" in therapeutic respiration
• Therapeutic practices and pain
• Pain management through neuromobilization
• Applications
  guided therapy and role-playing

November 20-21-22

Heart ailments & the therapeutic relationship

Discover how the therapeutic relationship is your primary tool for intervention. This weekend will teach you how to create a safe space where the client can relax. You will develop structured listening skills, a controlled presence, and a clear ability to intervene, in addition to being able to address physiological and biomechanical issues related to the upper body and limbs.

• Cardiovascular system and heart conditions
• Hypertension (theory and practice)
• Unexpressed emotional burdens and bodily impact
• Attachment bonds and the heart-nervous system relationship
• Introduction to the DSM-5 in a professional setting
• Anamnesis: the interview that soothes and clarifies
• client-therapist co-regulation
• Law 21 and ethical stance
• Biomechanics of the shoulders, elbows and wrists
• Diaphragmatic release
• Detailed therapeutic applications for the upper limbs
• Alternating demonstrations and supervised practice
• Construction of targeted mini-therapeutic sequences

December 11-12-13

Digestive System & Visceral Intelligence

Learn to listen to your gut as a center of intelligence. Stress, inflammation, sensitive constitution: you will understand how to connect physiology, emotions, and energy to intervene effectively through a holistic understanding of digestion.

• Gut-brain axis
• Vagus nerve and parasympathetic regulation
• Microbiota and inflammation
• Gastric reflux, hiatal hernia, gastritis, ulcers and inflammatory conditions, Crohn's disease, colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, constipation and discomfort of the excretory system
• Construction of sessions adapted to the terrain
• Alternating demonstrations and supervised practice
• Experiential immersion in the customer role

January 22-23-24, 2027

Anxiety, depression, burnout & addictions

Delve into the inner workings of the mind. You will learn to recognize anticipatory anxiety, debilitating burnout, and the avoidance strategies the mind employs to escape discomfort. You will develop the ability to intervene maturely in the face of compensatory behaviors and addictions, integrating body awareness, breathwork, and therapeutic language.

• Roots of anxiety and neural pathways
• Dopamine, the reward system, and habenula
• Burnout, chronic fatigue and insomnia
• Rumination and anticipation mechanisms
• Addictions: tobacco, alcohol, food, work, sex, screens
• Mental avoidance strategies and their bodily manifestations
• Identification phenomena ("what I think of myself, of others, and what I believe they think of me")
• Impact of buried fears and imbalances in the koshas
• Hypno-yoga and therapeutic visualizations
• The power of words and working with the unconscious
• HypnoYog Therapy as a regulatory tool
• Construction of protocols integrating movement, breathing and support
  compulsive behaviors
• Supervised practice and simulations