This Course provides an overview of the role of yoga in managing anger. As a component oftotal personality development managing anger aims at training the participants in both easternand western perspectives, thus improving coping skills and imparting notional corrections.The course includes both theory and practice components; the theory modules will give anoverview of both eastern and western understanding of anger and details of various modernand eastern concepts to deal with it, connection of food, physical activity and emotions withthat of anger and an elaborate description of various yogic techniques such as pranayama,meditation and asanas in managing anger. The other part of the course will give anexplanation on hands on practice sessions of various yoga techniques starting from Jointloosening practices, breathing practices, asanas, pranayama, various meditative techniquesuseful for developing right kind of mindset by balancing mind body component and therebyenabling an individual to learn effective ways to manage his/her anger. By the end of theCourse, the participant will also be made aware of all the recent Evidence based Studies onyoga for Anger Management.Intended Audience:Both Undergraduate and Postgraduate students studying yoga or any other courses
Overview
Syllabus
Week 1
- Module 1:Introduction to Yoga for Anger Management
- Module 2:Understanding Anger : Western Perspective
Week 2
- Module 3:Neurobiology of Anger
- Module 4:Impact of Suppressed Anger Anger on Health
Week 3:
- Module 5:Managing Your own Anger
- Module 6:How to deal with Angry People
Week 4
- Module 7: Understanding anger and its management: Yogic perspective- 1
- Module 8:Understanding anger and its management: Yogic perspective- 2
- Module 9:Food, physical activity, emotions, and anger management
- Module 10:Conceptual basis of yoga in Anger Management
Week 6
- Module 11:Pranayama as a tool for Anger Management
- Module 12:Role of Emotional culturing in Anger Management
Week 7
- Module 13:Notional Correction for Anger Management - Yogic Perspective
- Module 14: Meditation for Anger Management
Week 8
- Module 15:Evidences for Yoga in Anger Management
- Module 16: Assessment of Anger
- Module 17: Sukshma Vyayama
- Module 18Breathing Exercises- I
- Module 19: Breathing Exercises- II
- Module 20:Sithilikaran Vyayam- I
- Module 21: Sithilikaran Vyayam- II
- Module 22: Relaxation Technique - I
Week 11
- Module 23: Relaxation Technique- II
- Module 24:Surya Namaskar Practice
- Module 25:Asana- I
Week 12
- Module 26: Asana -II
- Module 27: Asana- III
- Module 28: Asana- IV
- Module 29: Pranayama- I
- Module 30:Pranayama- II
- Module 31: Pranayama- III
- Module 32:Nada Anusandhana and OM kara chanting
- Module 33: Bhajans for Emotional Culturing
- Module 34: Cyclic Meditation -I
- Module 35:Cyclic Meditation - II
- Module 36:Mind Sound Resonance Technique- I
- Module 37: Mind Sound Resonance Technique- II
- Module 38: Overall IAYT module for Anger Management- I
- Module 39: Overall IAYT module for Anger Management- II
- Module 40:Overall IAYT module for Anger Management- III
Taught by
Dr H R Nagendra | Dr Apar Saoji | Dr Jincy Sundaran | Dr Arundhati Goley
