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YogaX at Stanford Psychiatry

YogaX at Stanford Psychiatry

YogaX at Stanford Psychiatry

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At its core, YogaX is dedicated to fostering individual and collective emotional resilience, psychological flexibility, and compassionate wisdom. Our mission revolves around a unique integrated holistic model, aiming to facilitate yoga as a healthcare and lifestyle practice. We emphasize accessibility and affiliation; beneficence and lifelong new learning; intentionality and purpose; wholism that transcends reductionist approaches to healing and thriving; and integration of ancient and modern primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies for healing and transformation.  Integrated Holistic Yoga embodies:

  • A practice accessible to everyone
  • A practice with profound benefits
  • A practice intentional lifestyle choices
  • A practice of wholeness
  • A practice of integration
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Our Mission

In February 2019, YogaX was welcomed into the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University's School of Medicine, under the sponsorship of the Department’s Chair, Dr. Laura Roberts. YogaX, the outgrowth of decades of therapeutic yoga work by Dr. Christiane Brems, is a Special Initiative of the Chair that is designed to integrate therapeutic yoga into healthcare. This groundbreaking endeavor equips healthcare providers and yoga professionals with comprehensive toolkits that encompass integrated holistic yoga practices, empowering people on their journey toward healing, resilience, and thriving.

Extensive research literature attests to the multifaceted benefits of yoga, spanning physical, psychological, emotional, and relational wellbeing and thriving. With a commitment to evidence-based, individually-tailored practice, YogaX advocates for yoga as an abundant source of accessible treatment and prevention methodologies. We offer a spectrum of advanced educational programs, including yoga teacher training with a focus on preparing yoga teachers for therapeutic yoga work in healthcare settings, an educational pathway for healthcare providers that offers them therapeutic yoga principles and practices to support their own and their clients’ wellbeing and thriving, ongoing education, accessible and intentional yoga services with profound benefits, research endeavors, and active participation in shaping public policy.

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