YMS 411AP: Clinical Practicum - Faculty mentoring with No Residency (0:3 Credits)
Students are expected to do Practicum delivery for a minimum of 180 hours. This is in two portions:
Deliver a minimum of 150 clinical hours independently as lead Yoga Therapist.
Complete 30 hours practicum mentorship.
Requirements are below:
Students find clients on their own.
Students deliver Yoga Therapy to 4-6 clients, each with different primary ailments.
Each Student as a lead therapist delivers 150 hrs. of Yoga Therapy according to the followingguidelines:
At least 100 hours are technique delivery/monitored practice hours .
Remaining hours are a combination of client intake, counseling, review, and course correction.
At least 3 and no more than 5 clients.
No less than 15 hrs of engagement with each client.
For each client, no more than 4 months elapsed time between client intake and completion of therapy.
Yoga therapy sessions are strongly recommended to be done in person.
Students have to submit report for each client as approved by VaYU faculty.
Students will be mentored by VaYU course faculty for 30 hours during the whole process.
This would start from client intake, review of the protocol/assessments, necessary guidance for course corrections, interim review/monitoring during live sessions, speaking with clients, review of the final report and overall assessment.
A formal plan should be submitted by the student to the VaYU Faculty with timeline, start/end dates. VaYU Faculty signs off on the plan before the student begins the therapy sessions.
This course will be run via VaYU LMS as any VaYU Course with deadlines.