Matriculation for CYT, Certified Yoga Therapist, and PYT, Professional Yoga Therapist programs
1. PYTS Yoga Therapy Certification is open to any licensed health care professional. This includes but is not limited to medical doctors, physician assistants, physical therapists, registered nurses, occupational therapists, athletic trainers, and those in mental health care fields.
2. PYTS Courses can also be taken by health care professionals who do not wish to become a Certified Yoga Therapist, but want to take a yoga course that will give them immediate clinical application and continuing education hours for their respective fitness or yoga related field.
3. PYTS Professional Yoga Therapist credential, "PYT", is the advanced 1200 hour designation that can be worked toward after finishing and receiving the CYT credential. One exception, PYT VIII can be taken (elective courses) while working toward the CYT credential. The PYT VIII, or elective course credits, do not expire as the CYT course modules PYT I-IV do.
4. We believe that the licensed health care professionals' backgrounds in exercise, anatomy, and body awareness give them an advantage and an expertise that makes them ideal practitioners to teach Yoga. Our CYT, Certified Yoga Therapist program, is a unique post graduate program exclusively for licensed health care professionals designed to fit the busy health care professional’s clinical schedule and lifestyle. Four training modules are required in order to become a CYT with PYTS and a recognized RYT with The Yoga Alliance. Levels I and II are 31 hours each and are conducted in a compressed 3-day weekend training. Level III is a 56+ hour, 7 day advanced intensive training which takes place in a secluded and quiet, all inclusive ocean and sound front retreat center. Level IV is a 65+ hour, 8 day advanced intensive training which completes the final level of the CYT program. Level IV also takes place in a retreat style setting. Our CYT program is recognized by State Boards in PT, OT, Athletic Training (BOC), and in some states in Nursing as well. All health care professionals can submit their hours to their respective Boards in order to earn recognized CEU’s from PYTS. Athletic Trainers earn automatic CEU’s by completing programs at PYTS.
5. The CYT program must be completed within a maximum time period of four years. See bylaw 7 for an explanation.
6. Course module credits from the CYT program, that is PYT I, II, III and IV, are only valid for a period of three years. After a three year period of inactivity, course module credits for courses already taken will be lost. For example: if you take PYT I in 2008 and do not take another course for more than three years, the credit for PYT I will be lost.
7. All CYT coursework must be completed within a four year time frame. For example: if you take PYT I in 2008 and do not take another course until 2011, all three remaining courses must be taken by 2012 or course credit will be lost for the PYT I taken I 2008 (over three years ago). The PYT I would need to be repeated within the four year time frame from the course taken in 2011. For example, PYT I would need to be retaken by 2015 or all course credit would be lost for the courses taken in 2011.
Matriculation for Continuing education only (non-certification tract)
1. PYTS Continuing Education Courses are open to all students and practitioners of Yoga. Anyone who wants to apply Yoga at a deeper level can take PYTS continuing education courses.
2. PYTS is dedicated to preparing health care professionals to teach and practice Yoga as a therapy and as a way of life.
General Bylaws
1. PYTS courses are only taught by licensed health care professionals and professional yoga therapists who have years of experience using yoga solely as a therapeutic modality.
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. PYTS courses are medically based and speak to the post-professional graduate level. Our students are preferably those clinicians with years of experience in their respective fields who want to embrace integrative methods of healing. Students are required to have over 900 hours of undergraduate and graduate coursework, including the hours required by PYTS, in order to graduate. Hence, our course modules are not beginner's level. Students are expected to have a thorough working knowledge of anatomy and physiology before they enter PYTS program.
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. PYTS Certified Yoga Therapist credential, "CYT", is a Registered School of Yoga level recognized by The Yoga Alliance.
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. PYTS courses combine the concepts of rehabilitation with the principles of Yoga & Ayurveda to create PYTTM, or Professional Yoga TherapyTM.
5. Course certificates of attendance are issued upon request only after all written examinations (where applicable) have been sucessfully passed. All requests for certificates require 5-7 days to process.
Terminal Bylaws
1. Graduation and receipt of credentials from any PYTS program, whether CE, CYT, or PYT program, is exclusively dependent on the approval of the executive director, in addition to completion and passing of all exams, both written and oral, required in the program.
2. The executive director has final approval of a student's progression to the next course module in the CYT program.
3. The executive director is responsible for mentoring student's in their final two therapist training intensives and through the students' final graduate thesis, or CCC. As such, the executive director must give final approval on when a research thesis is complete, and when the student is qualified to apply for graduation.
4. Students are paying for course module training in PYTS programs, and do not automatically receive the credential that the program awards until the executive director has approved their graduation application and the student has received passing grades on all oral practical's, case studies, written and oral testing, and final community case competency or final research thesis project.
5. All hours must be attended in each course module to be eligible to receive any yoga therapist credential.
6. Any contact hours missed must be made up with contact hours under the supervision and direction of the executive director.
7. Any non-contact hours not completed must be completed with non-contact hours.
8. Proof of attendance or certificates of attendance will only be issued for the actual hours attended.
9. Any time missed from any course module must be made up by attending the missed hours of that course module with the same course module at a later date. No substitutions or study hours from other programs are accepted as credit for missing course module (s) or hours.
10. A final exit exam for all those students who are completing coursework in 2009-10 and after must be successfully passed with a minimum of 75% score.
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