Module 11

Ayurveda, Energy Anatomy, and Use of Sound and Voice in Holistic Health Care

Topics covered in Module 11 include:

• Ayurveda in Health Care
• Use of Sound, Music, and the Voice for Healing
• Energy Anatomy and Physiology
• Color Therapy

Modules 11 covers Ayurveda as it can be used by the health care professional in medical therapeutic yoga evaluation and application.  Special chapters (3 and 4) on sound and voice therapy and energy anatomy and physiology as therapy are covered, which include lock or bandha training, chromotherapy, chakra therapy, music selection, and vocal protection and liberation.  Chapters 1 and 2 prepare the clinician to incorporate fundamentals of Ayurveda into their clinical and community based (pathophysiological and preventive, respectively) practice, learning how to apply Ayurveda as yogic medicine through individual constitutional or doshic analysis.  The clinician will learn how to incorporate use of the doshic analysis into the broader conceptual model in order to complete the entire PYT holistic evaluation and management paradigm.

Modules 11 and 12 are the companion courses to the final onsite trainings in Modules 14 and 15.

CE's Earned: Pending

Required Reading: Chapters 1-4 of PYT, Volume IV manual

Chapter 1: Yogic Philosophy: Using Ayurveda as Yogic Medicine in Clinical Practice
Chapter 2: Yogic Physiology: Using Ayurveda as Yogic Medicine for Individual Constitutions
Chapter 3: Using Sound and Voice as Therapy
Chapter 4: Energy Anatomy and Physiology

Clinical Objectives

1. Verbalize the importance of including Ayurveda in prescribing medical therapeutic yoga based on how it impacts the PYT conceptual model of holistic intervention.
2. Explain the scientific interrelationship of yoga and Ayurveda with western medicine in managing chronic diseases.
3. Understand the five element theory, the guiding precepts of Ayurveda , and the governing non-theistic cosmic and physiological philosophy of its practice that overlap with modern neuroanatomy, psychophysiology, and nutrition.
4. Demonstrate understanding of basic Ayurvedic nutritional guidelines for each type of constitution and how it affects five element balance.
5. Practically apply the inter-relationship between the universal structure in eastern/Ayurvedic medicine to kinesthetic awareness and body intelligence in western/rehabilitative medicine.
6. Compare and contrast constitutional examination versus disease examination and the need for each in a modern holistic medical model.
7. Identify the internal and external influences affecting each individual constitutional type in order to understand their biochemical, psychophysiological, and psychoemotional metabolic effects. 
8. Identify a minimum of five signs and symptoms of both excess and balance in each type of constitution.
9. Utilize the five element theory of Ayurveda to affect change in each facet of the conceptual model to improve overall patient outcomes.
10. Identify the elements present in each of the three major Ayurvedic constitutions and how their state of balance or imbalance affects each limb of the conceptual model.
11. Utilize the mental and intellectual Ayurvedic qualities of the individual to create comprehensive individualized treatment plans in medical therapeutic yoga.
12. Integrate your knowledge of the five precepts of Ayurvedic practice and the 9 methods of intervention for Professional Yoga Therapists in order to prescribe medical therapeutic yoga for each constitutional type.
13. Compare and contrast the constitution (tri-dosha) types in order to understand how each requires different intervention for conceptual model balance.
14. Distinguish the difference between the translation, location, elemental makeup, and mental qualities of each constitution.
15. Demonstrate understanding of the 10 Ayurvedic constitutions and their respective  parameters through identification of at least 15 methods for intervention in order to improve decision making in medical therapeutic yoga prescription and facilitate work/life balance and overall health and well being.
16. Identify upper extremity Ayurveda pressure and massage points for soft tissue mobilization, biofeedback, and manual therapy.
17. Verbalize constitutional differences in physical attributes, anatomical structure, physiology, common orthopaedic presentation,  gastrointestinal function, and receptive and expressive language to understand how they affect prevention of disease in Ayurveda.
18. Understand the 2 basic approaches to spiritual healing in Ayurveda.
19. Understand the importance of vocal quality and its effects on psychophysiology of the mind and body.
20. Recognize the healing mechanisms of music and sound therapy which evoke change in cognition, memory, perception, behavior modulation, communication, biochemical, and neurophysiological processes.
21. Understand how music and sound has been used historically in mind/body healing.
22. Review the latest evidence based systemic benefits of music and sound therapy.
23. Understand how vocal anatomy and physiology affects production, resonation, and quality of sound in order to most effectively find, use, and protect your natural speaking voice as an educator, teacher, or public speaker.
24. Apply vocal functioning, protection, and relaxation exercises to utilize your voice as a therapeutic modality in medical therapeutic yoga. 
25. Describe the five elements of musical characteristics in order to utilize music as therapy.
26. Understand evidence based guidelines for using music as therapy.
27. Compare and contrast the anthropological approaches of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, and Nada Yoga in using sound and music as therapy. 
28. Describe at least seven uses and benefits of vocal toning in sound therapy.
29. Compare and contrast chakra music theory with Nada yoga in order to learn to effectively hear, listen to, and feel the psychophysiological effects of music and sound on the mind and body.
30. Define energy anatomy and the physiological methodology of the seven energy centers and physical locks of the body.
31. Understand how the seven energy centers, or chakras overlap with modern understanding of human physiology, neurology, and endocrinology.
32. Identify the seven energy centers and their corresponding element, meaning, and location.
33. Understand the concept of directional flow in the seven energy centers and how it affects psycho-emotional, social, and energetic health in the conceptual model via interpersonal and intrapersonal interaction and relationships.
34. Utilize meditations for the seven energy centers through elemental imagery, verbal cuing, chromotherapy, and sensory input.
35. Review the history and evidence base for chromotherapy  in order to understand the connection to Ayurvedic and modern  medicine.
36. Identify the affective meanings and association of each color in the spectrum through the lens of both conventional and Ayurvedic medicine.
37. Recognize at least five different chromotherapy interventions for achieving balance in the conceptual model.
38. Compare and contrast the traditional system of locks or bandhas with the evidence based system of eight locks taught in professional yoga therapy.
39. Identify indications and contraindications for practicing the eight locks.