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Professional Training Descriptions: Practitioner Level 3

Practitioner Level 3
(Duration: 8 months/100 contact hours & 550 supervised practicum hours)

Practitioner Level 3 training is the final and most comprehensive phase of the program: an eight-month part-time, distance learning program, plus two one-week intensives at the Phoenix Rising Center. It is designed to give you the professional experience, knowledge, understanding, and confidence needed to establish a career. Students have a chance to observe themselves in action and receive detailed supervision. This part of the program includes practice sessions and detailed reports, intensive workshops, reading of professional literature relating to yoga and psychotherapy, professional business practices, and essay writing.

Level 3 begins twice a year, in June and December. You are eligible to apply for Level 3 if you have successfully completed Level 2 within the last year. If you have completed Level 2 more than one year ago, please call and speak to the Level 3 Program Director before applying.

• Orientation to distance learning, the mentoring process, and program materials
• Coaching and feedback on a sessions given in the mentor groups
• Technical review and practice of assisted postures
• Applied anatomy for Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy
• Working with first-time clients

Midterm Workshop

• Coaching and feedback on sessions given in the mentor groups
• Technical review and practice of assisted postures, dialogue, and integration
• Teaching and practice of advanced dialogue techniques: Two-part Dialogue and Open- Ended Journey Dialogue
• Teaching and practice of the Extended Body Scan
• Professional ethics, boundaries, and guidelines for establishing a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy practice

Distance Learning

• Forty-eight practice sessions, with self-observation and feedback on eighteen of them
• Four exchange sessions with peers
• Receiving four sessions from certified practitioners
• Selected reading of professional literature
• Daily yoga and meditation practice
• Telephone conferences with mentor
• Evaluation of an approved videotaped session

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