Trainings & Healthy Programs

Welcome to your online resource for teacher trainings, events, retreats and articles by Ingrid Yang, M.D.

Vinyasa

Through Ingrid’s story-telling style of vinyasa flow, you have the opportunity to find your extraordinary self, whatever you define that to be.

Cancer Therapy

Learn how to design and teach a Yoga Therapy class to cancer patients and survivors in a safe and therapeutic environment, through this life-changing training.

Adaptive Yoga

Allow for deep relaxation and the release of mental, emotional, and physical stress, through a supportive practice, and healing sounds of music and song.

Private Lessons

Delve deeply into your practice in one-on-one sessions. Ingrid will work with you on your intentions – from being more deeply connected to specific therapeutic work.

ABOUT Ingrid Yang

Ingrid Yang, MD, JD, E-RYT-500, C-IAYT has been teaching yoga since 1999 and is a physician specializing in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Her expert grasp of anatomy and human physiology bring a unique, thoughtful and joyful experience to the practice of yoga. Ingrid leads classes, trainings, and workshops all over the United States, Australia, Europe and Asia. She is certified with OM Yoga Center and Jivamukti Yoga, both in New York City. Ingrid is also a certified yoga therapist under the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) and a Reiki master of the Usui tradition.

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Retreats & Trainings

January 16, 2021

Adaptive Yoga Training

Adaptive Yoga Training A 9-Hour Livestream Training for Yoga Teachers and Medical Professionals Sign Up Here Saturday, January 16, 2021. 8am-5pm PST Cost: $395 before Dec 1/ $425 thereafter Ingrid...

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Sept. 9-13 2021

Find Your Inspiration in Portugal

Thursday, September 9 - Monday, September 13, 2021 Join Ingrid for an inspiring and rejuvenating yoga retreat in Portugal's Algarve! BOOK HERE! With 300 days of sunshine every year, this...

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Author of the books #AdaptiveYoga and #HathaYoga. #Physician #hospitalist #MD #entrepreneur #Yogatherapist Helping you live your #extraordinarylife

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Life by the ocean feels right to me. Because we haven’t been able to travel this year, I have been infinitely more grateful to live in a place that I love and where my heart feels at home. I try to never miss a sunset and to smell the ocean air as often as I can. What are you grateful for today? #weekofthanks #lifebytheocean #yoga #dancer #sandiego #sunset #sandiegosunset #inspiration #yogainspiration #gratitude

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This is Dani. I am proud to call her my friend for so many reasons. Because she is a badass physical therapist, world-class surfer, adventure seeker, best kitten mom ever, unwavering advocate for others, but mostly because she is a really great friend. We are also both idealists at heart and believe the world should be a just place, and we both work hard on a daily basis the make that happen. Dani and I met less than a year ago because we both work at the same hospital (thanks for the introduction @savingkidneys). And when I asked if she would be in the book I was writing, she didn't hesitate to say yes because that's the kind of person she is -- if she can help you, she will. And she showed up, with a capital S. Despite not having a lot of experience with yoga, she practiced the yoga postures, mastered them, and shared with me how to best modify for above knee amputations, because not everyone has a high tech prosthetic like she does. And now, on the long list of things I admire about her, she is now adding Yoga Model! In all though, I love her the most for being a really stellar friend. Ok. I'm done now cause otherwise, Ima start crying. Love you, Dani! Thanks for being my daily inspiration, and for sharing that winning smile with me and the world. And also for helping me produce this beautiful book from which others will be just as inspired by you as I am! @dani.burt

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Scooting around on my bum leg! #hospitalrounds #covidfighter #wegotthis

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The tree of life. Last weekend (before my injury), I sat under this tree and meditated. I hoped for a better future for our earth and my fellow humans. I hoped for love and connection with the friends I miss seeing. I hoped for an end to the pandemic. And then I let it all be part of the experience of being alive and being human.

Back to work today. I’ll be scootering around the hospital doing my best to care for those that need more help than I do. I will be sharing updates in my story from the hospital on the pandemic and I’m back to hoping my patients will do just fine and get through this pandemic. I hope you will too.

Thinking back to this tree of life and gathering it’s energy to share with you. Love, Ingrid
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#covid19 #physician #hospitalist #heal #backtowork #frontlineworkers #frontline #doctor #coviddoctor

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*sound on* for chipmunk Korean counting! Did I tell you guys I’m learning Korean? My parents are Taiwanese, so I mostly grew up speaking English in the house, but also learned Mandarin Chinese and some Taiwanese. In school, I studied French and Spanish. So Korean is REALLY foreign to me. Two months in, I’ve learned about 100 vocabulary words and a wee bit of grammar. This morning, I sat down and decided to finally commit the numbering system to memory. Did you know Korean has two counting systems? And you have to know both because you use different systems based on the context. For instance, native Korean is used for counting things and saying the hour of time, but sino-Korean is for sums and minutes/seconds. It’s a trip! It’s been super fun and challenging. But I’m up for the challenge! Keep learning, friends! It gives us all something to look forward to. 안녕!
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#keeplearning #alwayskeeplearning

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"A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.” And it is so true.

This book has been 1.5 years in its creation, but so much more than that. In actuality, it has been decades in the making. It has been a manifestation of my inherent desire to level the field and create a more just world. It is a demonstration of my unwavering belief that everyone has the right to love their body with its fault and injuries, and all that it gifts to you. It is an accumulation of years of advocacy work as an attorney, and a decade of experience as a physician working directly with patients. It is a result of over 20 years as a yoga teacher and therapist helping clients realize their highest selves both physically and spiritually. It is a result of dedicating a lifetime to being a student of yoga and to stand in humility in honor of my teachers and those who came before me.

Most importantly, this book is a direct result of your support and belief in me and the ability for yoga to transform us. It is because of you and your dedication to the yogic path that allows me to dig deep and connect to all those seeking to brave this path with me. Thank you for your encouragement, love, support, and for the courage it takes for you to come back to your mat day after day, week after week. Adaptive Yoga, my second book, is a dream come true in its culmination of the knowledge I have gained and the passion I have for this work.

Thank you. From the bottom of my heart. This has been a difficult year for all of us, but I hope we continue to connect to what is meaningful to us. For me, that is through this book. For me, that is with you. Love, Ingrid
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#adaptiveyoga #yogaforbackpain #yogaforhips #yogaforbackpain #chairyoga #wheelchairyoga #yogaforparkinsons #yogaforamputeesbook #yoga #yogaformultiplesclerosis #yogaforstroke #yogaforcerebralpalsy #yogapractice #yogabook #yogafordisabilities #yogaforRA #yogaforarthritis @humankinetics

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Because you gotta have fun with it. On Sunday, I hurt my ankle... really bad. While I stay off my foot for a few weeks, I will be scooting around trying my best to live my life and do my work. Life is about adaptation... And now I’m using postures from my new book, Adaptive Yoga, to keep up with my yoga practice while I am injured and to slowly begin my rehab process. Stay tuned for an upcoming video showing you some upper body stretches! And in it all, you just have to have fun!
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A special thanks for @emmaleewhy for the amazing, life-saving knee scooter!
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For those of you that know me well, you know I’m an avid Grey’s Anatomy fan. Not for the medicine – that is usually quite inaccurate. But for the fun drama, and the very deep life lessons. But the first episode of this season (Season 17) offered an incredibly accurate picture of COVID-19. It gives you an inside look to how truly devastating this pandemic is.

At one point, the main protagonist, starts listing off the names of patients that died that day. She says of one of her colleagues: “He was fine yesterday. Became hypoxic an hour ago… it’s the fourth patient I lost today. And they are all dying alone.”

This is almost the exact dialogue that I had with a colleague in the hospital last week. This is real. And kudos to Grey’s anatomy for portraying it so accurately. At one point, she breaks down because her patients decompensate so quickly and she has no control over it. It is hard to watch, but it is what is actually happening in the hospital at this very moment.

I once called a daughter to tell her that her 66-yo father had died of COVID-19. She began to cry uncontrollably. She kept repeating: “This is all my fault,” because she had contracted COVID while attending a backyard bbq and had passed it on to him (while asymptomatic) before she became outwardly ill. She thought it would be ok since it was outdoors, but she ended up getting it anyway. She gave it to her father, and a month later, he was gone. He died alone in the hospital.

I don’t know what the worst thing about this pandemic is – there are too many terrible things to count. But if I had to choose one, it would be that people are dying alone. No one should have to live through this, and we are. So, that’s why doctors and scientists don’t understand the cavalier attitude when people say that we have to open gyms or that they are entitled to go to restaurants. It’s not a right at all. You know what’s a right? Being able to say goodbye to your father in person as he dies. But instead, he has to die alone.

So, if we can contribute in any way, however little, it is to be part of the solution, not the problem. It is our responsibility to do so. I hope you believe that too.

Instagram post 18130830526187168 $Enjoyed some sun, hiking, and beautiful views this weekend... right before saw a rattlesnake and then fell and may have fractured my ankle. All worth it! (While I wait in the ER for my X-rays.). Such a magical weekend with family. . . . . #yoga #hiking #views #view #hike #love #yogainspiration #inspiration$

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