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We are a world leader in yoga therapy, providing research-based professional training. We hope you enjoy learning with us!

The Minded Institute is an international leader in yoga therapy and mind-body training. We wholeheartedly believe that yoga therapy and aligned disciplines can play a vital role in prevention, management, and treatments of various mental and physical long-term conditions. To support this mission we provide expert education to help yoga and health professionals in the service of this goal and work

to translate the benefits of yoga therapy to health services. https://themindedinstitute.com/product-category/courses/

All of our courses incorporate a yogic therapeutic perspective, the psychological and physiological understanding of conditions and related yoga practices, up to date research, and guide for best practice - based on years of clinical experience. As the body-brain-mind connection is often crucial in unearthing the benefits of yoga therapy we also like to do a deep dive into neuroscience when appropriate!

24/04/2026

The NHS is finally recognising something research has been indicating for years: dysfunctional breathing may be contributing to illness.

For years, breathwork has been positioned primarily as a tool to reduce stress. While this is valid, it only reflects part of the picture.

A growing body of research, alongside recent mainstream coverage in The Guardian, is pointing to something more significant: that how a person breathes may be implicated in the development and persistence of a range of health conditions.

Despite this, dysfunctional breathing remains under-recognised in assessment and largely absent from primary care frameworks.

This is beginning to change.

The full blog explores what this shift means for clinical practice, where the current gaps remain, and how yoga therapy contributes a structured approach to both assessment and intervention.

Read via the link in bio.

23/04/2026

Join Heather Mason as part of the Yoga-Informed Therapist Interview Series, a free 10-day series hosted by Lauren Tober from Yoga Psychology Institute.

For practitioners working at the intersection of mental health and embodied practice, the question is often how yoga can be integrated in a way that is clinically appropriate, ethically grounded, and responsive to individual need.

Across 10 days, 20 practitioners share how yoga is applied within real therapeutic contexts. The focus is on clinical reasoning, decision-making, and the realities of working with complexity, rather than theory alone.

The series is delivered in a podcast-style format, making it easy to engage with alongside existing clinical or professional commitments. It runs from 4–13 May and is free to attend.

Register here: www.yogainformedtherapist.com

21/04/2026

Free 1:1 yoga therapy sessions available.

We are seeking volunteer clients for our online student assessment day on Thursday 28th May 2026.

Participants will receive a 50-minute personalised yoga therapy session, delivered by a student from our 2025 cohort as part of their exams.

Each appointment includes time to arrive, settle, and complete a short feedback form.

Your involvement supports the next generation of yoga therapists, while giving you access to a focused, individual session for your own wellbeing.

If you’d like to take part, comment CLIENT below and we’ll send you the direct link to sign up.

17/04/2026

The training The Minded Institute offers is immersive and demanding. Those who engage fully often describe it as professionally transformative.

www.themindedinstitute.co.za

15/04/2026

The integration of somatic work, personal insight, physiological regulation, and counselling skills is essential to supporting transformation in clients and patients, and these must be taught in tandem, not as separate skills to draw upon. This course is an introduction to that integration, yet a substantial grounding in the knowledge both Heather and Shaura have developed through years of teaching, clinical practice, and self-development.

Course Info:
Dates: 22–26 April 2026
Format: Live Online
CPD: 32.5 IAYT-approved hours

Watch the full video here;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn-Pmg###sk

14/04/2026

The breath is not neutral when you observe it.

The moment attention is placed on it, it begins to shift, often slowing, sometimes changing in quality.

This is not effort.
It is the effect of attention on physiology.

The mind does not just observe the body.
It interacts with it.

Take a moment.
Notice your breath.
See what changes.🌬️

13/04/2026

A paper authored by 40 physiologists, with Paul Grossman as senior author, presents a detailed critique of polyvagal theory, arguing that several of its core premises are not supported by current autonomic physiology.

This is not a peripheral debate. Polyvagal theory informs clinical, therapeutic, and somatic approaches across multiple fields.

Heather Mason will examine the paper in an upcoming talk, including the physiological arguments being made, whether they are valid, what they mean for practice, whether the critique holds within a broader understanding of physiology, and how Stephen Porges has responded.

If you would like to attend, comment "Theory" below and we will respond to you with further steps to sign up. If there is something specific you would like covered, let us know as well. We will gather responses and announce a date.

10/04/2026

Trauma-informed teaching is often found in the details.

How you cue.
How you observe.
How you respond.

These shifts can make your classes more accessible, more regulated, and more attuned to the people in front of you.

By Lisa Kaley-Isley.

09/04/2026

Delivered over 6 days, this IAYT-approved CPD in Child and Adolescent Mental Health is led by Michelle Fury, an international leader in yoga therapy for young people’s mental health. In this course, Michelle Fury shares concrete tools of how to safely and effectively integrate yoga therapy into paediatric mental health treatment.

Fridays and Saturdays for Three Weeks:
1st - 2nd May,
8th - 9th May &
15th - 16th May 2026

Time:
1pm - 7pm (each day, UK time)

https://themindedinstitute.com/product/online-cpd-yoga-therapy-for-adolescents-mental-health/

06/04/2026

Lifestyle medicine is becoming increasingly embedded within medical education.

Alongside this, yoga is beginning to enter medical schools in more defined ways. Not as an optional wellbeing add-on, but within anatomy teaching, mind-body medicine, and approaches to student burnout.

This is a subtle but important shift. What is included in medical education shapes how future clinicians think, practise, and understand health. When yoga appears within that context, it moves from being something adjacent to healthcare to something that begins to influence it from within.

We’ve explored what this looks like in practice, and what it may signal for the future of healthcare.

Comment “blog” and we’ll send you the link.

02/04/2026

Increase your scope of practice.

Counselling skills informed by yoga therapy, integrating somatic awareness, supported by physiological regulation, and grounded in person-centred understanding.

For yoga teachers, yoga therapists, and health professionals working one-to-one.

No prior counselling training required.

22–26 April 2026
Live online
32.5 hours
Investment £750

Shaura Hall The Yogologist

Accredited by IAYT and NCIP

01/04/2026

But with rising demand for integrative healthcare and research supporting the efficacy of the yoga in a host of health conditions, this could be the future.

With a growing mental health crisis including, rising stress-related illness, trauma, the case for Yoga Therapy in healthcare is becoming harder to dismiss. It addresses all of these issues

This is not about replacing medicine, psychotherapy, or clinical care.

It is about asking a serious question:

What would healthcare look like if it treated the whole person?

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