Take the Integrative Lifestyle Medicine Certificate Modules 3-4, which is included as part of the Level 2 Bundle.

No other experience in yoga or lifestyle medicine is needed. 

Clinical Objectives 

Identify biopsychosocial factors that impact behavioral change and systemic health in, and health promotion for, population health. 

 Describe the intersectionality of orthopedic health and gastrointestinal function and how to impact them through Lifestyle Medicine, Functional and Integrative Medicine). 

Practice sequences for gastrointestinal functional dysfunction in order to understand the orthopedic connection through hands on lab work. 

Practice sequences for orthopedic disorders and preventive health through hands on experiential lab work. 

Describe the role of neuroendocrinology in Lifestyle Medicine interventions. 

List Functional Medicine labs, tests, and measures that can be used to objectively track patient progress. 

Add new postures, breathing techniques, and their modifications, recalibrated according to the evidence base. 

Discuss indications and contraindications of the postures and techniques. 

Discuss how biopsychosocial intervention must adapt to different learning styles in order to impact behavioral change. 

Practice differential diagnosis as it relates to Lifestyle Medicine practice.

Experience how positional changes of internal anatomy affect posture prescription. 

Demonstrate proficiency at teaching sequences, including mindfulness and meditation, in your clinical area of expertise using appropriate language and dialogue. 

Demonstrate proficiency with MTY-based Spinal Kinematics Evaluation and Intervention Model. 

Use MTY-based yoga postures for high risk and complex orthopedic and gastrointestinal-complicated patient populations. 

Practice MTY-based Lower Quarter Evaluation and Shoe Assessment.

Prescribe MTY sequences for individual and group-based therapy health promotion and pathophysiological-based therapies in a lab setting.

Design both preventive and pathophysiological-based Lifestyle Medicine programs in a multi-disciplinary team format via live patient models.