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Save the date for our 2026 YogaX at Stanford Psychiatry Symposium, and happy National Health Education Week! 🌿

𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 5 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝗿 2026 𝗬𝗼𝗴𝗮𝗫 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘂𝗺, 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗭𝗼𝗼𝗺. This annual gathering is an opportunity to celebrate our sangha and the many ways our students and alums are bringing Integrated Holistic Yoga into healthcare and community settings, shared through their own Impact Stories.

The symposium is open to all. Details and registration are coming soon.

Questions? Email yogaxteam@stanford.edu

#SaveTheDate #NHEW #HealthEducation #StanfordPsychiatry #StanfordMedicine #TherapeuticYoga #YogaInHealthcare #YogaXStanford #ScienceMeetsSoul #YogaCommunity #IntegratedHolisticYoga #YogaTherapy #WholePersonHealth #MentalHealth #Sangha Save-the-date graphic for the YogaX at Stanford Psychiatry 2026 Symposium, celebrating the many ways students and alums bring Integrated Holistic Yoga into healthcare and community settings. Saturday, December 5, 2026, live via Zoom. Open to all, with details and registration coming soon. Questions to yogaxteam@stanford.edu. A softened photo of a Stanford campus building sits behind the text, with the YogaX and Stanford Medicine logos at the top.

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Meet the teachers who will guide our 2027 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training.

Our instructors bring together psychology, health education, health coaching, and years of therapeutic yoga teaching in clinical and community settings. Every session is taught live, and they will walk alongside you from the first class to graduation.

🌿 The journey begins January 16. Learn more at the link in bio, and join our next info session on Monday, November 9 at 12 PM PT.

#TherapeuticYoga #YogaInHealthcare #200HourYTT #YogaXStanford #ScienceMeetsSoul #YogaCommunity #YogaTeacherTraining #IntegratedHolisticYoga Cover slide: “YogaX 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training, Meet Our Instructors,” with portraits of Christiane Brems, Geno Carvalho, Malani Srikanth, Valentina Anania, and Rebecca Volino Robinson, plus their credentials and the YogaX, Stanford Medicine, and RYS 200 logos.

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Your path into therapeutic yoga can begin January 16.

Our 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training brings yoga’s whole-person approach into healthcare education, taught live and together by the YogaX team at Stanford Psychiatry. Swipe to explore the program, from Integrated Holistic Yoga to our two cohorts in 2027.

🌿 Join our All-Program Info Session tomorrow, Tuesday, October 13 at 12:30 PM PT. Link in bio.

#TherapeuticYoga #YogaInHealthcare #200HourYTT #YogaXStanford #ScienceMeetsSoul #YogaCommunity #YogaTeacherTraining #IntegratedHolisticYoga Cover slide: “YogaX 200HR YTT, The Journey Begins January 16th,” with the YogaX, Stanford Medicine, and Yoga Alliance RYS 200 logos. Below, students in YogaX shirts practice downward-facing dog on purple mats.

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Today, our Founding Director, Dr. Christiane Brems, and our Program Manager, Geno Carvalho, presented "Yoga-Based Interventions in Psychiatry and Behavioral Health" at Psychiatry Grand Rounds for the Stanford Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

We are grateful for the invitation to share this work with our colleagues across Stanford Medicine and to everyone who joined us.

Articles referenced in the presentation are in the first comment.

🌿 Curious about this work? Join our upcoming info sessions, link in bio.

#TherapeuticYoga #YogaInHealthcare #YogaXStanford #ScienceMeetsSoul #StanfordMedicine #Psychiatry #MentalHealth #YogaTherapy Psychiatry Grand Rounds flyer from the Stanford Medicine School of Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Title: "Yoga-Based Interventions in Psychiatry and Behavioral Health," Thursday, October 8, 2026, 12:00 to 1:00 PM, with photos of presenters Christiane Brems and Geno Carvalho.

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Today, YogaX brought therapeutic yoga to Stanford's neuroscience graduate students at their First Friday event in October.

As a special initiative of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, part of our mission is education: helping future scientists and clinicians understand what evidence-informed, whole-person practice offers, and experience it in their own nervous systems. Today's session paired a short introduction to that work with a gentle practice in grounding and regulation.

Our thanks to the Neuroscience Mental Health Committee for the invitation, and to everyone who came straight from lab and practiced with us.

🌿 Science meets soul, together.

#YogaXStanford #StanfordMedicine #TherapeuticYoga #YogaInHealthcare #ScienceMeetsSoul #YogaCommunity

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A practice is only therapeutic if it meets the person in front of you. Integrated holistic yoga offers a way to understand, conceptualize, and respond to what each person brings. YogaX's advanced programs help build the frameworks that make this possible.

IHY Conceptualization, Principles, and Practices is a 30-hour module with Dr. Christiane Brems, PhD, ABPP, E-RYT500, C-IAYT, clinical psychologist, yoga therapist, and YogaX Founding Director. Across four Sundays in October and November 2026 – October 11, 18, 25, and November 8 – the module works with the Four Noble Truths as a framework for therapeutic yoga case conceptualization, moving through presenting concerns and suffering, causes and conditions, prognosis and the kindling of hope, and finally the development of an individualized care plan. Along the way, it integrates the koshas, biopsychosociocultural context, yoga psychology, the four Ps, goal setting, therapeutic principles, the SANKALPA teaching methodology, IHY sequencing, and practices drawn from across the limbs of yoga. Time together includes didactic teaching, discussion, experiential practice, case application, and small group work.

This is one module among many in our 300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training, our 800-Hour Integrated Holistic Yoga Therapy Program, and YogaX Mental Health Certificate Program.

🌿 If this way of learning calls to you, our 300-Hour, 800-Hour and Mental Health Certificate programs are linked in our bio.

If you are interested in taking this module as a free-standing module, please reach out to us at yogaxteam@stanford.edu

#YogaTherapy #TherapeuticYoga #IntegratedHolisticYoga #YogaTeacherTraining #CaseConceptualization #YogaAndMentalHealth #StanfordMedicine #YogaX #YogaForHealthcare #ScienceMeetsSoul A practice is only therapeutic if it meets the person in front of you. Integrated holistic yoga offers a way to understand, conceptualize, and respond to what each person brings. YogaX's advanced programs help build the frameworks that make this possible. IHY Conceptualization, Principles, and Practices is a 30-hour module with Dr. Christiane Brems, PhD, ABPP, E-RYT500, C-IAYT, clinical psychologist, yoga therapist, and YogaX Founding Director. Across four Sundays in October and November 2026 – October 11, 18, 25, and November 8 – the module works with the Four Noble Truths as a framework for therapeutic yoga case conceptualization, moving through presenting concerns and suffering, causes and conditions, prognosis and the kindling of hope, and finally the development of an individualized care plan. Along the way, it integrates the koshas, biopsychosociocultural context, yoga psychology, the four Ps, goal setting, therapeutic principles, the SANKALPA teaching methodology, IHY sequencing, and practices drawn from across the limbs of yoga. Time together includes didactic teaching, discussion, experiential practice, case application, and small group work. This is one module among many in our 300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training, our 800-Hour Integrated Holistic Yoga Therapy Program, and YogaX Mental Health Certificate Program.

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We are celebrating National Rehabilitation Awareness Week.

Today, two YogaX alumni @poojamrao @bridgetot who work as occupational therapists at Stanford Health Care led a therapeutic yoga session for their colleagues across occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech-language pathology. Our team was glad to support them.

There is something fitting about rehabilitation professionals taking time to practice for themselves. These are the people who spend their days helping others recover movement, function, and voice, and this hour was a chance to receive some of that same care.

It is also what we hope for when someone completes a YogaX training: not that they leave their profession for yoga, but that they carry yoga into the work they already do.

To everyone in rehabilitation, thank you for the impact you have on patients, families, and our community.

Learn more about YogaX at yogaxteam.com, links in our bio.

#NRAW2026 #PowerOfMedicalRehab #TherapeuticYoga #YogaInHealthcare #YogaXStanford #ScienceMeetsSoul #AMRPA A large group practicing yoga on mats spread across a lawn beside a tall building, with people seated and others standing among them.

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Meet Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD, a Stanford Medicine sleep researcher whose groundbreaking work helped uncover the causes of narcolepsy and paved the way for new treatments for sleep disorders. His research has transformed our understanding of the biology of sleep and what happens when it goes awry.

Learn what sparked his fascination with sleep — and get to know the 2026 recipient of the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award.

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Congratulations to Stanford Medicine sleep researcher, Emmanuel Mignot, MD, PhD, on receiving this year’s Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, one of the most prestigious science prizes in the world. He discovered that narcolepsy stems from a deficiency of orexin in the brain, opening the door to new sleep therapies.

Link to the full story in bio.

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Yesterday YogaX joined the Healthspan Hub at the Stanford game's School of Medicine Night, bringing a moment of practice to a bold and loud event.

Between the music and the crowds, colleagues from across Stanford Medicine stopped by to pause, breathe, and explore therapeutic yoga with us.

This is what we mean when we say yoga is everywhere, in clinics, in classrooms, and yes, at a tailgate.

Thank you to everyone who came by, to our amazing volunteers, and to the School of Medicine for inviting us.

🌿 If you would like to learn more, join us at our next all-program info session, September 14 at 12PM PT. Link in bio.

#YogaXStanford #StanfordMedicine #YogaCommunity #ScienceMeetsSoul #TherapeuticYoga

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What happens in the nervous system when we practice?

We know that a long exhalation settles us, that certain movements energize us, that what we pay attention to can influence how we feel. YogaX's advanced programs help provide explanations and invite scientific exploration about what is behind these experiences.

Neurophysiological Foundations of Yoga-Based Practices is a 30-hour module with Dr. Laura Schmalzl, PhD, RYT500, C-IAYT, a clinical neuropsychologist, cognitive neuroscientist, and yoga therapist. Across four days in September and October 2026, September 13, 20, 27, and October 4 – her module weaves together contemporary neuroscience with yogic wisdom to explore how movement, breath, and attention regulate the nervous system, and how to carry that understanding into personal practice, yoga teaching and clinical care.

The module, and the explorations it encourages, turn intuition into wisdom.
This is one module among many in our 300-Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training and our 800-Hour Integrated Holistic Yoga Therapy Program, taught by faculty who work at the intersection of research and practice, of science and soul. It is also available as a free-standing module for anyone drawn to this material who is not currently enrolled in a program, with a special rate for YogaX alumni.

🌿 If this way of learning calls to you, our 300-Hour and 800-Hour programs are linked in our bio, along with registration for this module on its own.

#TherapeuticYoga #YogaInHealthcare #YogaXStanford #ScienceMeetsSoul #YogaCommunity #YogaTherapy #YogaTherapyTraining #Neuroscience #NervousSystemRegulation #CIAYT Promotional graphic with a line drawing of a brain behind the title. Text reads: "Neurophysiological Foundations of Yoga-Based Practices. Sep 13, 20, 27 and Oct 04, 2026." YogaX and Stanford Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences logos below. "What happens in the nervous system when we practice? This 30-hour training bridges contemporary neuroscience and yogic wisdom to explore how movement, breath, and attention regulate the nervous system, and how these principles can inform yoga teaching, clinical care, and personal practice. Registration and details: yogaxteam.com." On the right, against a sage green background, a smiling woman with long curly hair in a bright blue top, with text reading "Dr. Laura Schmalzl, PhD, RYT500, C-IAYT, Clinical Neuropsychologist, Cognitive Neuroscientist, and Yoga Therapist."

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Five days. One room. And more learning than any of us could have inspired alone.

Our in-person module has come to a close, and now that the mats have been rolled up and the room has gone quiet, we want to express our gratitude.

Thank you:

To our faculty, who prepared and taught with such depth and care; who showed us again and again what it means to meet a person, exactly as they are, and adapt with attunement and presence.

To our trainees, who arrived from many time zones and many callings, nurses, physicians, therapists, teachers, seekers, and practiced, questioned, wobbled, laughed, and grew together. You brought your whole selves, and it showed.

To everyone behind the scenes who set up the room, arranged the props, and held the schedule so the rest of us could simply learn. The invisible work was visible in everything that went well.

Together we practiced what this work is built on - integration, holism, accessibility, intentionality, and beneficence.

And now it travels, carried by everyone who was in that room, into hospitals, clinics, classrooms, and communities.

Until we are together again - keep practicing, keep learning, and keep being.

With gratitude, from all of us at YogaX. 🌿🙏❤️

#TherapeuticYoga #YogaInHealthcare #YogaXStanford #ScienceMeetsSoul #YogaCommunity #YogaTherapy #YogaTherapyTraining #CIAYT #ThankYou A group of about twenty trainees and teachers in black YogaX Stanford shirts standing together outdoors in front of a red-roofed building, smiling for a group photo.

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