Reconnect with Food®

Mindfulness-Based Yoga Therapy Certification in Eating Disorder Recovery

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Three-segment, Yoga therapy certification with optional combined 200 hour (RYT) training.

Pre-requisites to entering Yoga therapy training program: Licensed mental health professionals, registered dietitians, nurses (RN, LPN, NP), or physicians with at least one year of experience in the field of eating disorder recovery.   Recovery coach (professionally trained peer support coach) with at least two years of effective, personal treatment followed by one year of leadership in the eating disorder community (must have a collaborative relationship with a licensed treatment professional.

 

It is mandatory for all practitioners enrolled in this program, who have struggled with an eating disorder, to have had effective personal treatment prior to entering this program.  This program is not intended for personal support or treatment.

Participants must complete all three segments for certification.

 

Yogo AllianceTeacher training is mandatory for those who do not have 200 hour RYT.  For those whose have their RYT training, further skill development may be warranted through our teacher training program before starting our Yoga therapy program.  Please send a DVD with a teaching sample along with your application. More info on 200 hour RYT training here.

 

Becoming a Yoga Teacher vs. Yoga Therapist

 

Download an application now to start the process!

 

ENROLL in Yoga Therapy Training Program

 

Immersion Segment

Conducted at our facility in Royal Oak, Michigan. Trainees receive hands on, real-life experience in our comprehensive eating disorder programs for an entire week.

Integration Segment

Conducted via webcam and/or DVD exchange (if out of area). Trainees will implement learned techniques into their own practice setting.  They will send materials for review and feedback, while also utilizing web-cam for exchange of information and perfecting Yoga therapy skills.

Implementation Segment

Conducted at our facility in Royal Oak, Michigan after enrollee has had time to implement learned techniques in their own practice setting. In this module, trainee will continue to learn, while conducting various programs and implementing techniques at our facility with our clients.

 

Participants can also receive:

  • Continuing education units by Commission on Dietetic Registration
  • Continuing education units by Yoga Alliance
  • Clock hours in body image, weight and food issues towards IAEDP Eating Disorder Specialist or the CEU renewal requirement
  • Additional clock hours for your Yoga teacher training if taking at a training which requires elective hours/additional workshop

(Ask about CEUs for Mental Health practitioners)

 

Meet our Reconnect with Food® Yoga Therapists

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Program Objectives/Topics:

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  • Look inward with an honest self-assessment of your own body image issues, while addressing how your relationship with food, and your yoga mat, parallel every other relationship in your life so that you can help your students/clients understand the same concept
  • Differentiate between classifications of eating disorders, common co-occurring disorders and how they present physically, emotionally and spiritually both on and off the mat
  • Learn the scientific benefits of yoga on eating disorder recovery and co-occurring disorders, along with the yoga teacher and yoga therapist's role in an eating disorder treatment facility or community setting.
  • Become aware of the negative messages that you may be giving your students/clients by focusing solely on the poses; learn how to reduce competition/perfectionism and implement purposeful word choices, while focusing on the breath--using challenging poses as metaphors
  • Explore mindfulness and its congruency with Hatha yoga
  • Compare mindfulness, DBT and ACT to yoga therapy along with psychological interventions that are incongruent
  • Learn and practice mindful eating through food experiential
  • Implement the chakras, eight fold path and yoga philosophy in eating disorder recovery
  • Learn how listen and understand non-verbal communication by your student/client, with an eating disorder and co-occurring disorders, through their yoga practice
  • Develop your own yoga program/class in body acceptance for students/clients using messages, voice tone, lighting, temperature, themes and sequencing of yoga flow;
  • Learn the art of giving and receiving feedback along with adjustments that make connections vs. corrections
  • Market your program and services to other healthcare professionals and the consumer

Training also includes:

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  • Yoga therapy techniques and personal practice including meditation
  • Yoga therapy training methodology as applied to eating disorder recovery in our day and intensive outpatient programs, weekly group support and outpatient therapy
  • Anatomy & Physiology of the chakras and their application to eating disorder recovery along with body image experiential
  • Yoga Philosophy including the eight limbs of yoga and how they apply to addiction work along with mindful and conscious eating
  • Practicum including observing and leading classes and groups along with giving and receiving feedback
  • Case study and special project
  • Community activities/meetings in eating disorder recovery
Program Facilitators, Integration and Implementation Segments:

Nancy McCaochan, MA, E-RYT
Beverly Price, RD, MA, E-RYT

Required reading for all segments:

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You will receive a study guide for each of the materials so that you can begin part of this training immediately with non-contact hours going into program.  Recommended order of reading is below. Check www.amazon.com for best prices.

 

Program Materials:

Comprehensive syllabus is included in the cost of program, giving you a turn-key program that you can implement in your practice setting. Required reading/viewing products, listed above, are purchased on your own. In addition to the required reading/viewing materials listed on our website, you will also need your own seating/meditation cushion, mat, writing journal, and notepads.

 

License Agreement:

Following completion of all three segments of this program and payment of entire fee, practitioners will become a RECONNECT WITH FOOD® yoga practitioner. All materials (print and internet) will contain a “license legend” which states: “RECONNECT WITH FOOD® is a registered trademark of Jump Start Consulting®, LLC and is used under license.”

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"This program is currently one-of-a-kind and is desperately needed in the treatment community.  I will enjoy watching it grow and expand.  I feel privileged to have been part of the initial group of such creative and powerful women."

Katherine Dittmann, MS, RD
Center for Self-Discovery and Private Practice
Menlo Park, CA
"This was an extremely rewarding experience both mentally and physically."

Jessica Kirn
Central Michigan University Student

"Learning the connection of the chakras with emotion and food as well as how other life relationships parallel the relationship with food was most useful."

Julie Haan
Michigan State University Student
“Beverly Price has created a very informative and inspiring DVD on Reconnecting with Food. Bev has the professional depth of academic rigor from her nutritional and exercise traditional rigor and then nicely balances it with the "heart" of self-compassion and nurturing when she blends in her Yoga training. This is work you can confidently recommend to both the lay population and professional colleagues.”

Matthew Taylor
Scottsdale, AZ
International Association of Yoga Therapists
Board President, 2009
“I found this unbelievably connecting to professionals in the eating disorder world. I am so grateful for this experience.”

Julie Squires, RYT
Kingston, NY
“As a nutrition professional, it was important to me to go through my own journey of recovery, so I can relate to my clients better.”

Karen Wilner, RD, LD
West Bloomfield, MI
“I learned so much from the other participants, which was invaluable.”

Diana Cullum-Dugan, RD, LDN, RYT
Namaste Nutrition
Cambridge, MA
“Reconnect with Food encourages a more personalized and broader perspective on nutrition therapy for clients suffering with eating disorders. I would encourage any dietitian and therapist in this field to consider this program for innovative ways to enlighten their clients and empower themselves.”

Pam Kelle, RD, CDE, LDN
Solace Eating Disorder Clinic
Chattanooga, TN
“I will use this information with my private clients and my groups.”

Shirley Kessel, RYT
JustBStill
Philadelphia, PA
“This has been a great introduction but I feel I have so much more to learn to actually implement yoga! I would recommend it to others with a background in yoga and those who want exposure.”

Jessica Ward, RD
Selah House
Residential Eating Disorder Treatment Program
Anderson, IN
“I gained a breadth of knowledge that I will use in every aspect of my personal and professional life.”

Dani Dumani, RYT, MSc Counseling, MFTT
Dani Yoga, Los Angeles, CA
and New Journey Eating Disorder Treatment Center
Santa Monica, CA