Already a Clinician? Here's Why Yoga Training Makes You a Better One
You chose healthcare because you wanted to help people heal. You have spent years developing clinical expertise and the capacity to see what is wrong and know what to do about it.
And yet — you have probably also sensed the limits. The chronic pain patient for whom the standard toolkit has run out of comfortable options. The anxious patient who cannot tolerate medication. The veteran with PTSD for whom nothing yet has touched the core of what they are carrying.
Clinically applied, evidence-based yoga is increasingly what sits in that gap. And healthcare professionals who understand how to use it are becoming some of the most effective practitioners in integrative medicine.
“📊 What the Research Shows
Peer-reviewed research has demonstrated yoga’s efficacy for chronic pain, hypertension, anxiety, depression, PTSD, cancer-related fatigue, and neurological conditions including MS and Parkinson’s. For healthcare professionals, this is not alternative medicine. It is evidence-based integrative care.”
What Yoga Training Adds to a Clinical Practice
● Evidence-based self-care tools for patients: breathwork, Yoga Nidra, mindfulness meditation, and gentle movement patients can practice independently
● A body-based approach to mental health: somatic techniques for anxiety, depression, and trauma that complement and in some cases reduce reliance on pharmacological intervention
● Condition-specific yoga applications: knowing which practices support which conditions — with the same precision applied to other clinical decisions
● Motivational coaching skills: evidence-based techniques for building patient engagement with self-care practices
● Your own self-care: healthcare professionals face some of the highest rates of burnout of any professional group. The practices taught in this course apply to the practitioner as much as the patient
Faculty Built for a Clinical Audience
PYI's Yoga in Healthcare training is taught by Dr. Loren Fishman (MD, Columbia University, world authority on yoga for orthopedic conditions and chronic pain) and Dr. Chris Walling (PsyD, licensed clinical psychologist, C-IAYT, expert in somatic psychology, trauma, and HRV-based breathwork). These are not yoga teachers with an interest in medicine. They are clinicians with deep yoga expertise — the faculty model that makes this training credible for a clinical audience.
🏅 What You Earn — Healthcare Professionals
• 100 hours of clinical yoga training with world-class medical faculty • Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Credits (CEs) — reportable directly to YA • IAYT Continuing Education credit available upon request • Foundational hours toward PYI's IAYT-Accredited Yoga Therapist Certification (additional prerequisites apply) Healthcare Course dates: October 2 – November 14, 2026. Live online with optional in-person NYC session.
“→ Add Evidence-Based Yoga Tools to Your Clinical Practice
PYI’s Yoga in Healthcare is a 100-hour online training built for nurses, physicians, therapists, and allied health professionals. Taught by Dr. Loren Fishman and Dr. Chris Walling alongside master yoga therapists. Live online, October 2 – November 14, 2026, with an optional in-person NYC session. Learn more at Prema Yoga Institute.”