The Minded Institute

The Minded Institute 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!

Lifestyle medicine is becoming increasingly embedded within medical education.Alongside this, yoga is beginning to enter...
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.

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Increase your scope of practice.Counselling skills informed by yoga therapy, integrating somatic awareness, supported by...
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

Accredited by IAYT and NCIP

But with rising demand for integrative healthcare and research supporting the efficacy of the yoga in a host of health c...
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?

There is pressure in therapeutic and leadership roles to present as though you have it all figured out. It shapes how th...
31/03/2026

There is pressure in therapeutic and leadership roles to present as though you have it all figured out. It shapes how therapists work, how trainers teach, and what others come to believe is required of them. When leaders perform stability rather than model honesty, it sets a standard that is neither realistic nor useful for their students, their clients, or themselves.

Session 1
Tuesday, 7 April 2026 | 6.30–8.00pm (UK time)
Session 2
Tuesday, 14 April 2026 | 6.30–8.00pm (UK time)

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https://themindedinstitute.com/product/authentic-leadership-seminar/

At The Minded Institute, we know mental healthcare does not have all the answers.If it did, the crisis would not be grow...
30/03/2026

At The Minded Institute, we know mental healthcare does not have all the answers.

If it did, the crisis would not be growing at this rate. Yoga therapy doesn't have them either, but it is charting territory that hasn't been explored, and finding something useful there.

This is a quote we live by. Not a path we follow, a trail that yoga therapy, and we believe everyone working within it, is committed to making, for the whole person, so that more people can find their way through.

Counselling skills for practitioners working in embodied, one-to-one settings.Introduction to Integrative Yoga Therapy C...
27/03/2026

Counselling skills for practitioners working in embodied, one-to-one settings.

Introduction to Integrative Yoga Therapy Counselling is a five-day training integrating person-centred counselling, applied physiology, somatic awareness, and yogic psychology.
Designed for yoga teachers, yoga therapists, and health professionals, this course supports practitioners to work with emotional material, relational dynamics, and nervous system states as they arise in practice.

The training is grounded in:
– physiological literacy
– embodied attunement
– ethical clarity
– regulation and therapeutic presence

No prior counselling training required.

From 22 April 2026
32.5 IAYT-approved CPD hours
Live Online

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A rare opportunity to witness one of the pioneers of modern yoga therapy working in real time.We are delighted to welcom...
27/03/2026

A rare opportunity to witness one of the pioneers of modern yoga therapy working in real time.

We are delighted to welcome Michael Lee back for a live online observation.
As the founder of Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, Michael developed an approach in the 1980s that integrates mindfulness, somatic awareness, and therapeutic dialogue, and has since influenced the field internationally.

Rooted in a non-directive, client-led process, the Phoenix Rising Method uses the body as a gateway into awareness, supporting emotional processing, regulation, and meaningful change.

This session offers a direct view into how language, presence, and pacing are used to support self-awareness and nervous system regulation in an online therapeutic setting.

Please note: due to the personal nature of this work, the session will not be recorded.

Tuesday, 31 March 2026
6.30pm – 8.15pm (UK time)
Live Online
£22.50

Comment PHOENIX and we’ll send you the link to sign up.

Meet the faces behind our upcoming Integrative Yoga Psychotherapy Panel.💟🌻This is a very special panel with people very ...
25/03/2026

Meet the faces behind our upcoming Integrative Yoga Psychotherapy Panel.💟

🌻This is a very special panel with people very dear to The Minded Institute. The panel discussion will bring together trainees, graduates, and faculty connected to our Integrative Yoga Psychotherapy Diploma who each bringing their own perspectives, lived experience, professional path, and therapeutic understandings.

Together, they reflect the depth, diversity, and humanity of this emerging field: from trauma-informed practice and mental health support, to women’s health, addiction, relational work, embodiment, and integrative care.

Whether you are curious about the training, considering your next professional step, or simply want to hear honest reflections from those walking this path, this conversation offers a meaningful glimpse into the lived reality of integrative yoga psychotherapy.

Join Heather, Clair, Linda, Elle, Elaine, and Havva for an open and insightful discussion about the training, the work, and the people behind it.

Supporting children and adolescents means understanding how mental health develops through connection, attachment, and t...
25/03/2026

Supporting children and adolescents means understanding how mental health develops through connection, attachment, and the nervous system.

In this seminar, Michelle Fury draws on over 20 years of clinical experience in paediatric settings to show how yoga therapy can be applied in a developmentally informed, grounded-in-practice way.

The session looks at how to support emotional regulation, build relational safety, and adapt communication across different stages of development. Relevant for those working in clinical, educational, or caregiving roles.

Live this evening (Wednesday, 25th March) at 6.30 pm UK, with a recording provided - catch up on demand.
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24/03/2026

In this video, Heather Mason explores why coherent breathing influences the relationship between breathing, the cardiovascular system, and the nervous system by affecting intrathoracic pressure, venous blood return, and vagal activity, which results in increasing heart rate variability (HRV) and supporting physiological regulation. It includes a guide and embodied practice.

Watch the Full video on our Youtube Channel

Link in bio

23/03/2026

Accessible Chair Yoga enables practitioners to bring yoga into settings where traditional approaches are not always possible.

This training introduces the Lakshmi Voelker method, a widely respected system for adapting yoga based on levels of flexibility, supporting work with older adults, people with disabilities, and those with limited mobility.

Date:
Friday, 27th - Sunday, 29th March 2026

Time:
9.30am - 4.30pm (each day, UK time)

Delivered as part of an IAYT-approved CPD pathway, the course equips practitioners to teach safely, confidently, and across a range of professional environments.

Sign Up here:
https://themindedinstitute.com/product/online-cpd-accessible-chair-yoga-teacher-training-for-yoga-therapists-part-1/

The kosha model offers a way of understanding the whole person, not just the presenting issue.Rather than asking “what i...
19/03/2026

The kosha model offers a way of understanding the whole person, not just the presenting issue.

Rather than asking “what is wrong?”, it asks how experience is showing up across different layers: the body, the breath, the mind, our capacity to reflect, and our sense of connection or meaning.

In practice, this can shift everything.

Take the example of an older adult presenting with anxiety.
Is it being driven through the body, perhaps through pain, instability, or fear of falling?
Is it linked to disrupted sleep or low energy?
Is it shaped by loss, loneliness, or changing identity?
Or is it influenced by cognitive changes that are being noticed or worried about?

Often, it is not one layer alone, but how they interact.

A kosha assessment helps to map this. It highlights where distress is most active, how different layers may be reinforcing one another, and where there is already some stability to build from.

From there, it becomes possible to choose an approach that meets the person where they are, rather than applying something generic.

In this way, the model supports a more precise, person-centred approach to care.

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