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A Gentle Way
A Gentle Way has been offering gentle yoga—including yoga for plus sizes, seniors, and the health challenged—in San Diego since 1996. They also offer one of the few yoga teacher trainings (200- and 500-hr Yoga Alliance certification) that actively supports training teachers who have specific needs.

American Viniyoga Institute
The Viniyoga approach adapts practice to the unique condition, needs, and interests of the individual. AYI offers seminars, workshops, teacher training leading to a 500-hour certification with Yoga Alliance, and more. The AVI Yoga Therapist Program is a clinical training program that educates AVI certified yoga teachers about the application of the theory and tools of yoga to individuals and groups of people with health conditions.

AURA Yoga Teacher Training
AURA offers remote training with books, CDs, workshops, tutoring and more. Their training programs include restorative yoga certification, chair yoga teacher training, meditation teacher certification, and more.

Ananda Seva Mission
Ananda Seva Mission offers a Yoga Alliance registered Yoga Teacher Training program for 200-hour certification as well as a 300-hour Yoga Therapy Certification program that can include a simultaneous 500-hour Yoga Teacher Training certification. They also offer Yoga of the Heart, Cardiac and Cancer Yoga Therapy certification.

Australian Institute of Yoga Therapy
AIYT offers Australia's first and only nationally recognized, state accredited graduate training program in Yoga Therapy. This is a unique opportunity for experienced, qualified Yoga teachers to extend their skills and scope of practice as well credentialled Yoga Therapists.

ExTension and Recovery Yoga
Sam Dworkis offers information about and resources for yoga for all types of people, including instructors and students in all types of health situations (including chronically ill, injured, aging, ...). Sam also offers workshops, teacher training, and other services. The site includes a free book for yoga teachers and students, How to minimize your risk of yoga related injuries.

Feel Your Best (FYB)
FYB Trained Instructors learn to teach all students based on the FYB trademarked philosophy of "The Person, Not The Pose"®. Their Certification Teacher Training Programs include FYB Yoga (200- and 500-hour Yoga Alliance approved), FYB Yoga Therapy (International Association of Yoga Therapists listed), and FYB Pilates. The programs are flexible and fit who you are and how you want to teach—from gentle & therapeutic to athletic & dynamic ... and anything in between. Workshops also are offered.

Integrative Yoga Therapy
IYT offers a Yoga Teacher Training Program (recognized as RYT-200 by the Yoga Alliance) as well as a Professional Yoga Therapist Training Program (recognized as RYT-500 by the Yoga Alliance). Learn to design and teach yoga programs for individuals and groups with specific needs or specific health challenges. Develop an in-depth understanding of the theory, process and application of yoga therapy for a wide variety of needs and conditions.

IAYT - The International Association of Yoga Therapists
IAYT supports research and education in Yoga and serves Yoga practitioners, Yoga teachers, Yoga therapists, health care professionals and researchers worldwide. Their mission is to establish Yoga as a recognized and respected therapy in the Western world. IAYT also serves members, the media, and the general public as a comprehensive source of information about contemporary Yoga education, research, and statistics.

IYTC - Yoga for Health International Yoga Therapy Conference
IYTC is a forum that explores ways yoga can aid in maintaining good health or recovery from illness. The event also helps bridge the gap between the yoga and the medical establishment. IYTC is for: Absolute beginners who want to learn how Yoga can help improve many health conditions; medical doctors, therapists and healing arts practitioners who want to add yoga to their practice; yoga teachers who want to add a new dimension to their teachings.

The Lineage Project teaches at-risk and incarcerated New York City teenagers awareness-based practices, such as yoga and meditation, to help consciously manage stress, increase self-awareness, and cultivate compassion and commitment to nonviolent engagement with their communities.

Matthew Sanford's Web Site
Matthew is a pioneer in adapting yoga for people living with disabilities. Matthew shared his story in the book Waking. He teaches weekly yoga classes to people of all abilities at Mind Body Solutions Yoga, the studio operated by the non-profit he founded. He also travels nationwide teaching a wide variety of workshops.

Mukunda's Yoga Therapy Center
The Center offers national and international workshops and professional trainings, including Structural Yoga Teachers (200-hour Yoga Alliance), Structural Yoga Therapists (500-hour Yoga Alliance) training, and more. Structural Yoga is a form of classical yoga that allows teachers to adapt yoga to individual needs and provide teachings that translate off the mat into daily life.

Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy
PRYT provides certification for two career paths, as a practitioner working with individual clients and/or as a yoga teacher (with a 200-hour Yoga Alliance approved certification) leading therapeutic yoga classes. Through assisted yoga postures, focused breathing, and non-directive dialogue, practitioners guide clients to experience the connection of their physical and emotional selves—fostering release, personal growth and healing.

Positive Health Solutions
In addition to providing medical and cardiac yoga for patients, teacher training is offered. The Cardiac Yoga Teacher Training Program's workshops and seminars educate and train medical personnel and yoga instructors to work with cardiac patients and their spouses (84 CEU credits available for medical personnel, 70 Yoga Alliance hours available toward 500-hour credentialing).

PranaVinyasa School
This school offers a unique approach making yoga accessible to all, regardless of age or physical condition. They offer Yoga For Special Populations Teacher Education 200- and 500-hour Yoga Alliance registered programs, a 750-hour Yoga as Therapy program, a 1000-hour Therapeutic Yoga Studies program, and workshops.

Professional Yoga Therapy Studies
PYTS offers a range of programs to prepare licensed health care professionals to be certified yoga therapists (CYT, 900-hour level) for both clinical and healthy populations and professional yoga therapists (PYT, 1200-hour level). They also offer general continuing education courses for yoga students and teachers.

Relax & Renew
Judith Hanson Lasater offers trainings for yoga teachers who want to learn how to teach Restorative Yoga and become a Relax and Renew Trainer. The training is 20 hours over five days.

The Samarya Center for Integrated Movement Therapy and Ashtanga Yoga
The Samarya Center provides yoga and yoga therapy to people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds. They offer a very wide range of specialized classes and workshops. They also offer Yoga Alliance 200-hour training, 500-hour traiing with IMT training, and other programs for instructors. Check out their site's pictures and their card desk to see everyone practicing yoga!

Street Yoga
Steet Yoga offers free yoga, wellness and meditation classes to homeless youth and youth at risk of homelessness in Portland and Seattle. Their mission includes helping homeless youth increase their physical, emotional and spiritual strength, stamina and flexibility so they can better meet their own core needs. They work closely with service providers striving to help homeless youth secure safe housing, nutritious food, accessible health care, employment, clean clothing, educational choices and human dignity.

Yoga Heals Us
Karen O'Donnell Clarke offers adaptive yoga classes (and more) in Connecticut, yoga business coaching, and teacher training workshops—including Teaching Adaptive Yoga for Multiple Sclerosis and Adaptive Asana Techniques for Yoga Teachers (with CEU credit). Her web site also offers help finding adaptive yoga teachers.

Yoga of the Heart: Cardiac and Cancer Certification Training
Adapting Yoga for Heart and Other Life Threatening Diseases is a certification course offered for yoga teachers and health professionals teaching the general population who would like to share Yoga with people living with heart disease, cancer and other debilitating diseases. It is also useful for people with family histories and/or risk factors. (Programs are Approved for CEU and Yoga Alliance Credit.)

Yoga for Depression / Life Force Yoga
LifeForce Yoga is a practice of compassion, adapted to the student so that each individual can move into a more balanced and positive emotional, mental, and physical state of equanimity and self-awareness. Certified LifeForce Yoga Practitioner (CLYP) training is available to 200-hr level certified instructors, mental health professionals with an ongoing yoga practice, and selected other healing professionals.

yogaHOPE
yogaHOPE offers rehabilitative yoga programs in residential facilities for underserved women in substance abuse recovery, poor and homeless women, and victims of domestic violence. They provide donated yoga clothing and supplies to the students and make the practice accessible to all abilities. They also offer scholarships to attend teacher certification programs and become eligible for employment as a yoga instructor.

Yoga Outreach
Volunteer yoga teachers with Vancouver-based Yoga Outreach promote healing by working with people in health care settings (physical and mental), shelters, treatment facilities and correctional institutions who would not otherwise have access to yoga. The organization supports volunteers with educational programs, equipment, meetings, and newsletters.

Yoga for Peace
The Heart of Yoga Foundation Peace Project brings yoga to people living in active conflict zones and other troubled areas of the world. The Peace Project provides education and resources to current and aspiring yoga teachers so that they may better carry the seeds of positive change to the people and places they love. They teach classes, hold regional dialogues about creating peaceful change, and have a Sister Studio programthat matches yoga studios in peaceful areas with yoga studios in troubled areas to help them to build lasting relationships. They also work with people in peaceful areas, teaching them how to recognize and deal with violence and fear in their own lives.

Yoga Spirit
Yoga Spirit's tele-classes are live, 60 minute interactive training classes and class series conducted over the telephone (sometimes, with online visuals). You also will receive a Podcast (recorded) version. From anatomy and pranayama to special needs and philosophy, the tele-classes cover a wide range of topics. Previous classes also are available! For teachers, each class is 1 CEU of distance learning.

Yoga Therapy and Training Centre
YTTC is Ireland's largest Yoga organization. They offer training—including level 1 teaching certification, yoga therapy, yoga for children, yoga for pregnancy, and yoga for special needs—at locations throughout Ireland.

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