The Science of Well-Being: Therapeutic Tools to Improve Depression

July 23, 2022

All-Day Virtual Gathering with 7-Day Access to Download the Recordings

This course combines social, affective, and neuroscience with psychology and body therapeutics designed to uplift depression, alleviate grief, and address loss in today’s challenging, yet transformative world.

The Science of Well-Being: Therapeutic Tools to Improve Depression

Things are challenging worldwide. A pandemic that caused us to equate social distancing with survival, and one that changed the nature of our work, personal lives, and communities. Assaults on body agency and bodily autonomy. A growing lack of equality. Global hunger. Climate change. War. Political polarization and a rise in autocracy.

Yet amidst all these factors, we find ourselves with unprecedented opportunities for change. How do we rise to the occasion, especially when we and those around us are contending with grief, loss, and depression? In this all-day workshop, we’ll convene in community to address these questions.

We’ll review new scientific findings that highlight the body’s role in emotional and social change. We’ll address the idea that depression isn’t merely the brain disorder or biochemical issue but a disease of disembodiment. We’ll  investigate an emerging field I think of as body therapeutics, a multisensory menu of dynamic practices that train our bodies and change our minds and brains.

In this all-day experience, we’ll explore:

• the neuroscience of depression, including emotional + social research
• adult neurogenesis, the formation of new neurons, and how we can prime it
• the five body senses and how to strengthen them
• body systems that affect mood, e.g. fascia, the microbiome, and immune system
• the social factors that influence depression, and what we can do to change them
• how do we make yoga classes and therapy sessions more therapeutic in a body-focused way?
• fascia self-bodywork sequences, novel movement practices, and restorative practices geared to depression

We’ll experience a full range of practical tools to uplift depression, alleviate grief, and manage loss in the intense, yet transformative world we live inhabit.

Throughout our time together, I’ll integrate cutting-edge research from science, psychology, and other fields of study with detailed instruction for practice, prescriptions for well-being, and implications for the urgent problem of human suffering.

You’ll receive a copy of the workshop PowerPoint, a CE certificate for yoga teachers through Yoga Alliance, and a link to download all the materials for a period of seven days (so you can keep and review them forever). 

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We’re offering BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) or BAME (Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic) scholarships for this course. For more details, please refer to the BIPOC Scholarships section below.

Before registering, please thoroughly review the information below. Once you register, your fee cannot be refunded or transferred to another event.

By taking this course, participants will learn how to:

1. Discuss emerging research in affective neuroscience as it relates to depression.
2. Discuss emerging research in multisensory awareness, including interoception, proprioception, body agency, and body ownership.
3. Discuss body systems that affect mood, including fascia, the microbiome, and the immune system
4. the scientific links between connective tissue and interoceptive awareness
5. Discuss the implications of connective tissue inflammation for mood disorders such as depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
6. Explain how to target connective tissue interventions to interoceptive (rather than solely proprioceptive) awareness
7. Discuss the specific elements that make connective tissue interventions therapeutic
8. Demonstrate a familiarity with how to language connective tissue interventions in a trauma-informed way
9. Discuss methods to effectively sequence connective tissue self-massage into dynamic rest interludes, personal practice and yoga classes

Saturday, April 23, 2022

8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. EDT, U.S. time (with 30 minutes for lunch)

Joining from outside the U.S.? Check your local time:

PDT: EDT -3 hours
BST: EDT + 5 hours
CEST: EDT +6 hours
SGT: EDT +12 hours
AEST: EDT +14 hours

We will offer BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) or BAME (Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic) scholarships for this course. The deadline for requesting a scholarship is 4/14.

To request a BIPOC or BAME scholarship, please email Julie, at support@boforbesyoga.com. If you’ve never received a scholarship from us before, please include specific information about your social location. Please also link us to a personal page such as your LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, or website.

• Yoga Alliance (7 credits)
• Yoga Therapists through IAYT (7 credits)

$209 USD (We take payments through both PayPal and Stripe)

Please note: All registrations after 2:00 p.m. EST, U.S. time on July 22 will be considered “replay” registrations; a $10 administrative fee is included.

To register for the workshop, please send Julie a note to support@boforbesyoga.com. Specify your preferred email, choice of CE credits, your understanding of the time frame for downloading materials, and your understanding of our no-cancellation policy.

Then click the link below to pay. Please note that the workshop fee is non-refundable and non-transferrable.

If you don’t include your preferred email, we’ll send your materials to the address included with your PayPal or Stripe payment.

Thank you.

When you register for this workshop, you agree to the terms and conditions of workshop materials access and the cancellation policy described below.

Workshop participants will have access to view and download the workshop materials through for a period of seven (7) days. After that time, workshop content will be unavailable. By purchasing this workshop, you agree to download all materials within a seven-day period, to send us your preferred email, and to notify us by April 28 if you have not received your materials email.

Once you register, there will be no cancellations or transfers of your workshop fee.

After paying, please send Julie a note to support@boforbesyoga.com with the subject line “July Workshop.”

Please specify:

• Your review and understanding of the 7-day download limit and no-cancellation policy
• Whether you’ll be attending live
• Whether you’d like yoga teacher or yoga therapy CE credits
• Your preferred email for communications, including materials (Note: Please do not overlook this step, as many people have different PayPal and personal emails)

When we receive your email, we’ll add you to our registration list.

You can expect an email regarding props, etc. early in the week prior to the workshop. 

 Thank you.

For questions, please email Julie, support@boforbesyoga.com.