Define Lifestyle Medicine and its role in rehabilitation and health promotion.

Apply the 10 MTY Precepts to your clinical practice in order to increase clinical efficacy and safety of yoga prescription as lifestyle medicine. 

 List the implications for use of MTY to impact health promotion and wellness practice. Identify quantitative and qualitative outcome measures to use in MTY. 

Practice & demonstrate understanding of the FMA algorithm in the context of Lifestyle Medicine evaluation, diagnosis, and prescription. 

Demonstrate multidisciplinary knowledge of indications and contraindications for using the FMA for prescriptive movement and/or manual therapy. 

Critically analyze physical yoga movement and respiratory therapies and their modifications in a lab setting. 

Complete case studies via real time assessment with peers using live model(s) to address complex medical histories and pain. 

Demonstrate knowledge of guidelines to practice, teaching, manual cuing, and instruction in yoga postures, breathing techniques, mindfulness and meditation practice. 

Integrate the biopsychosocial, lifestyle medicine driven 

Vector Analysis into practice in a lab setting. 

Describe the code of ethics for becoming a Lifestyle Medicine practitioner & certified Professional Yoga Therapist. 

Discuss research and legal implications for licensed versus unlicensed use of yoga in the United States. 

Practice MTY to address multi-joint and systemic stabilization in a lab setting. 

Practice safe polyvagal intervention in a lab setting. 

Critically analyze how myofascial and neurovascular impairment can be addressed through MTY. 

Demonstrate competence with use of yoga props and blanket folding. 

List the tenets of including meditation and postural practice sequences in clinical practice. 

Discuss business matrix analysis for health promotion, and both cash-based and insurance-based practice. 

Understand coding and billing practices for licensed providers. 

 Pass a quiz to demonstrate competency with Level 1 principles.