A SELF-PACED ONLINE YOGA HEALING COURSE
The 20-Hour Yoga Healing Course: Yoga for Lifestyle Disease
Six conditions. Eight lessons. One way of seeing the whole person.
A deeper way to understand the people you practise with. Across eight self-paced lessons, Deep Kumar, Anurag Acharya, and Amiro Maitri bring yogic wisdom and modern therapeutic understanding to anxiety, depression, arthritis, lower back pain, diabetes, and menstrual disorders, so you can recognise what lives beneath each condition, offer practice with greater sensitivity, and know when someone needs a different kind of care.
$79 introductory rate until 30 September 2026
Claim your discount before it expires
- 00Days
- 00Hours
- 00Minutes
- 00Seconds
- 00Days
- 00Hours
- 00Minutes
- 00Seconds
YOUR MIND
The Challenge With Lifestyle Conditions
When a Student Brings More Than Their Body Shows
Where do I even begin?
You may know how to guide a balanced, thoughtful class. Then a student mentions their anxiety or depression, their arthritis, a lower back that has ached for years, a diabetes diagnosis, or a painful cycle, and suddenly the familiar sequence feels uncertain. Should you slow down? Should you avoid certain poses? Is yoga even the right place to start? So what is the reference point? How do you know what this person actually needs?
The same questions live in your own practice. You may notice your breath shortening under stress, your joints stiffening, your mood growing heavy, or your energy dropping after an irregular day, without knowing what these patterns are telling you. Many modern conditions begin long before they become visible in the body, shaped quietly by stress, breath, posture, food rhythm, movement, emotion, and inner belief.
The challenge is not simply knowing which pose helps which condition. It is understanding the whole person living with it.
The Gap in the understanding
When You See the Symptom, But Not the Person
01
The knee, the joint, or the lower back becomes the whole story, and the breath, emotion, and daily rhythm around it go unseen.
02
Well-meant sequences can ask too much of a system that is already anxious, inflamed, or exhausted, and the body quietly braces against the help.
03
Without knowing the red flags, it is hard to tell when to adapt, when to wait, and when to refer someone on. Confidence fades, and care becomes cautious guesswork.
When we cannot see the whole person, we lose the clarity to know what to offer, how gently to offer it, and when yoga is not yet the right first step. This is what the 20-Hour Yoga Healing Course is designed to change.
Introducing the program
The 20-Hour Yoga Healing Course
Six conditions. One whole-person map.
The 20-Hour Yoga Healing Course brings six lifestyle-related conditions into one clear and compassionate way of understanding the people who live with them: anxiety, depression, arthritis, lower back pain, diabetes, and menstrual disorders.
The condition lessons are rooted in the Pancha Koshas (the five bodies), the physical, energetic, mental, intuitive, and bliss layers of a human being. Deep introduces the yogic frameworks and embodied practices, Amiro guides practical posture application, and Anurag brings clinical anatomy and physical therapy insight.
Five lessons build your understanding of anxiety, arthritis, lower back pain, diabetes, and menstrual disorders. Then three carefully designed yoga classes help ease depression, calm anxiety, and rejuvenate your nervous system, through conscious breathing, supportive movement, spinal mobility, laughter, and inward awareness.
As you learn how these conditions connect, they become more than separate diagnoses. They become a map for offering yoga with greater sensitivity, sound judgement, and genuine care.
Ancient wisdom · Modern therapy · The whole person wisdom
WHERE YOGIC WISDOM MEETS CLINICAL UNDERSTANDING
From Treating a Condition to Seeing the Whole Person
Yoga for a condition is often taught as a list: these poses for back pain, that breath for anxiety. Lists can be a useful starting point, but they cannot account for every body, every breath, or the life a person returns to when they leave the mat.
This course teaches you to look first and offer second. You learn to observe the rhythm of the breath before choosing a practice, to notice whether energy feels tense, scattered, or grounded, and to consider emotional experience and daily rhythm alongside physical patterns. You also learn the red flags that signal when someone needs medical assessment before any practice is offered, such as changes in bladder or bowel function, major loss of strength, or loss of sensation.
This gives you something more valuable than a set of prescribed sequences: the ability to adapt your care to the person in front of you, whether you are practising alone, teaching a group, or working one to one.
“Anxiety is a state of not being at ease. The breath is where ease begins to return.“
The 20-Hour Yoga Healing Course
ONE MAP THAT TRAVELS THROUGH EVERY CONDITION
What You Learn in This Online Yoga Healing Course
A meaningful yoga healing course teaches principles you can carry from one condition to the next, and from understanding into compassionate, embodied practice.
Understand lifestyle-related conditions through the Pancha Koshas (the five bodies), from the physical layer to the bliss layer.
Read the breath for signs of stress and tension, and guide longer exhalation and full-torso breathing to cultivate steadiness.
Apply cooling breath principles when working with inflammatory conditions such as arthritis.
Assess lower back discomfort through physical and emotional awareness, and recognise the red flags that call for medical care first.
Explore metabolic wellbeing through nourishment, movement, stress, and daily rhythm.
Adapt practice with greater awareness of the menstrual cycle, including what to avoid during menstruation.
Experience three guided classes designed to help ease depression, calm anxiety, and rejuvenate your nervous system.
Design therapeutic sequences that combine breath, movement, meditation, and observation.
What many practitioners miss is that a condition is never only where it hurts. Two people with the same diagnosis can carry it through very different breath patterns, emotions, and daily rhythms. The skill is not memorising one sequence per condition. It is learning to see the person clearly enough that the right practice, and the right pace, becomes visible.
Begin exactly where you are
Who This Yoga Healing Course Is For
You do not need a clinical background, a therapeutic qualification, or years of teaching. You need curiosity, a mat, and a willingness to look beyond the symptom.
01
Bring more confidence and care to students who arrive with anxiety, pain, or a diagnosis, and earn 20 continuing education hours.
02
Build a whole-person foundation before, or alongside, longer yoga therapy study.
03
Understand how stress, breath, and daily rhythm are shaping your own wellbeing.
04
Add a yogic, whole-person lens to the way you support the people you work with.
05
Explore gentle, informed practice that complements, and never replaces, the care of your medical team.
06
Explore the meeting point between yogic frameworks and modern therapeutic understanding.
A word for the hesitant
You Do Not Need a Clinical Background
The course begins with the breath, because the breath is available to everyone. Anatomy and physiology are explained in clear, practical language, and the guided classes are gentle, supported, and adaptable. Nothing asks you to push, perform, or force your body toward a shape.
FIVE CONDITION LESSONS. THREE YOGA CLASSES. EIGHT LESSONS.
The Complete 8-Lesson Curriculum
The journey moves from understanding into embodiment. Five lessons each explore one lifestyle condition through the body, breath, energy, mind, and daily rhythm. Then three carefully designed yoga classes bring those principles into your own breath and body, to help ease depression, calm anxiety, and rejuvenate your nervous system. Open each lesson to explore what is inside.
Anxiety is explored as more than a mental condition: a disturbance in rest, breath, energy, and inner ease. Through the five bodies, the five pranas (the five movements of life energy), and first chakra (energy centre) safety, you learn why the breath sits at its heart.
Inside this lesson
- Anxiety understood as a state in which the person is not at ease
- The energy body, its five pranas, and its seven chakras
- How longer exhalation and full-torso breathing restore steadiness
Arthritis is introduced as inflammation in the joints, in yogic language excess sun and not enough moon. You explore how pain touches all five bodies, and how breath, cooling energy, and steadiness shape a more compassionate approach.
Inside this lesson
- Linking physical pain with energetic tension, stress, anxiety, and excess heat
- Assessing the rhythm of the breath before choosing a practice
- Equal breathing and slower breath to cultivate a cooling presence
The lower back is approached as a support system reflecting both structure and emotion. You explore the lumbar spine and sacrum alongside the first and second chakras, and learn to assess posture and breath with care.
Inside this lesson
- The first chakra’s link with survival and stability, the second with emotional contraction
- Guiding the breath into the lower belly, side ribs, and diaphragm
- Red flags that call for medical assessment before any practice is offered
Diabetes is explored as a metabolic lifestyle disorder, with clear introductions to metabolism, insulin, blood sugar, and the pancreas. You learn to see metabolic health through nourishment, movement, stress response, and consistency.
Inside this lesson
- Metabolism as both a breaking-down and a building-up process
- How irregular food timing can disturb the body’s biological rhythm
- How stress affects metabolic processes and can exhaust the body
Menstrual disorders are explored as disturbances in the cycle, including irregularity, excess or absent bleeding, and premenstrual tension. You learn how hormones, diet, activity, and stress interact, and how gentle practice can support menstrual health through the whole system.
Inside this lesson
- Working with muscles, mind, and breath toward system-wide harmony
- Gentle movement to support comfort during the menstrual phase
- Why inversions and strong core or pelvic contraction are avoided during menstruation
The Three Guided Yoga Classes
Carefully designed to help ease depression, calm anxiety, and rejuvenate your nervous system.
The first class meets tension where it so often begins, in the breath. Deep guides you through supported sitting, a longer exhalation, and comfortable pauses, so the body can begin to let go without force, through a loving, attentive relationship with the breath rather than an effort to control it.
Inside this lesson
- Supporting the hips to free natural abdominal breathing
- Lengthening the exhalation gently, without force
- Awareness at the belly and heart to bring attention home to the body
The breath moves into movement, with attention on the abdomen, hips, and spine. Through supportive floor movements, side bending, twisting, and gentle shaking, you practise movement as a way of listening to the body rather than demanding something from it, noticing where effort and tension quietly gather.
Inside this lesson
- Gentle cycling movements to bring awareness into the abdomen and hips
- Forward, backward, lateral, and twisting movements of the spine
- Bent knees, props, and the breath as guides away from excess effort
The final class brings the course into integration through breath, natural laughter, and stillness. Deep invites you to notice what he calls “the dance of the breath”, and to find presence and lightness already within you rather than searching elsewhere.
Inside this lesson
- Natural laughter as a felt experience of lightness
- Comfortable pauses after both inhalation and exhalation
- Following the breath from the nostrils toward the belly and outward again
“Let Your Healing Begin Where Your Breath Finds Ease“
8 video lessons · Lifetime access
THE TEACHERS BEHIND THIS COURSE
Meet Your Teachers
Every teacher at Yoga New Vision is here because they have something real to transmit. They guide not as distant gurus, but as compassionate mentors and friends, sharing yoga not just as a practice, but as a way of being.
Founder and Lead Teacher, Yoga New Vision
Deep Kumar
In this course: yogic frameworks and embodied practice
Deep Kumar came to yoga not as a career, but as a calling. Born and raised in India, he trained in some of the most prestigious academies in the country before spending two decades founding schools, teaching thousands of students, and quietly refining what he believed yoga could truly be.
Yoga New Vision is his fourth school, and his most personal. It is the one he built when he finally had the clarity to offer yoga in its purest, most embodied form.
In the shala, Deep is unlike most teachers you have encountered. He carries the curiosity of a scientist and the warmth of a dear friend. He teaches with laughter, with precision, and with a genuine delight in watching something unlock in you. Many call him the laughter yogi, and when you experience a session with him, you will understand why.
His philosophy is beautifully simple: understand your body, understand your mind, and in that understanding, you are already transformed.
E-RYT200 Yoga Alliance Certified Teacher · Yoga Asana & Meditation
Amiro Maitri
In this course: practical posture application
Amiro Maitri, also known as Dianna, is an E-RYT200 Yoga Alliance Certified Teacher from London and a long-time student of Deep Kumar, studying closely with him from 2015 to 2017.
Her teaching journey began by assisting Deep in his trainings, gradually contributing to yoga teacher training programs in India, Bali, and online. Through years of study and practice, Amiro developed a deep interest in physio-therapeutic yoga, precise alignment, and the biomechanics of the human body. This interest led her to study with Anurag ji, where she continued to refine her understanding of anatomy, movement, and therapeutic application.
Amiro has worked with students navigating Multiple Sclerosis, depression and anxiety, joint and muscle injuries, and scoliosis. Her classes bring together clarity, sensitivity, and a loving presence that helps students feel supported in their own bodies.
In this course, Amiro guides the practical application of posture, bringing clarity, softness, and embodied care to how each practice is shaped for the body in front of you. Students often leave her presence feeling light, fresh, and quietly blissful.
Yoga Therapy Lead · Master of Physical Therapy
Anurag Acharya
In this course: clinical anatomy and physical therapy insight
Anurag Acharya is rare. He holds a Master of Physical Therapy in orthopaedic medicine, is a certified manual therapist from the Manual Therapy Foundation of India, and is certified in osteopathic and chiropractic techniques.
He also grew up in a family where yoga was a way of life. His father was a yoga teacher, and practice began for Anurag long before any formal qualification. That dual foundation shapes everything he teaches. Anurag does not hold clinical knowledge and yogic knowledge as two separate things. For him they were always the same thing, expressed in different languages.
He has a deep understanding of human anatomy, biomechanics, and physiology and has spent years correlating modern science with ancient yogic tradition. He promotes evidence-based yoga practice by combining biomechanics and kinesiology with genuine yogic depth. He currently practises as a consultant physiotherapist at Yuvaan Wellness Centre in India and has taught yoga anatomy across Yoga Alliance 200-hour and 300-hour teacher training programs.
His way of teaching anatomy is clear, functional, practical, and immediately applicable. You will not leave this course with textbook knowledge. You will leave with a new way of seeing.
Ancient wisdom, taught with modern clarity
The School Behind the Course
At Yoga New Vision, we believe wisdom has many voices. The ancient teachings of Indian yoga speak to the soul. Modern science speaks to the body. Eastern philosophy maps the inner landscape. Western psychology and research give language to what we feel, live, and pass on. When all of these are honoured fully, something beautiful happens, not a compromise, but a coming home.
This is the heart of our YNV Method: a holistic yoga teacher training approach where Eastern wisdom meets Western science, where ancient philosophy meets modern psychology, and where timeless practice is illuminated by today’s research. We hold every tradition with equal reverence, drawing on the discoveries of three extraordinary scientists to deepen what yoga has always known.
Since 2009
Teaching yoga
15,000+
Students trained
50+
Countries represented
5-star
600+ Reviews Across All Platforms
FROM THE HEARTS OF OUR Students
What Students Say About Learning With Deep
Fifteen thousand students since 2009, in more than fifty countries, and five stars across Google, Yoga Alliance and Facebook. What moves us is not the number. It is the note that arrives from someone practising alone in a living room on the other side of the world, who has just understood a pose they have been doing for ten years.
He teaches the purpose of yoga, not just the posture
“Deep is an incredible yoga teacher. His courses go far beyond teaching yoga asanas with the right posture and alignment; he teaches the true meaning and purpose of yoga.”
Like attending a retreat in India
“An excellent course that explains the asanas from an authentic Eastern perspective. The teacher inspires trust and positivity, as if you were attending a retreat in India.”
As a yoga teacher, I'm here to learn
“I find this course very detailed and informative. As a yoga teacher myself, I am watching Deep to learn more about every pose. He explains everything so well.”
Nothing had worked before this
“What is amazing about Deep is his meticulous approach to describing each pose, point, and pressure system. As someone looking to reduce weight when nothing in the past has worked, this has been incredibly helpful.”
My body feels open and free of fatigue
“The instructor provided many fine details on each pose, from start to finish, with modifications. My body feels more open and completely free of fatigue. I highly recommend this course to all levels, including teachers.”
My Surya Namaskar improved without strain
“This program really helped explain the posture and technique of major individual asanas. I feel my Surya Namaskar has improved significantly; I can now perform it more comfortably without strain.”
The basics done correctly — what's missing today
“The explanations about the poses — including how to enter and exit them — are very detailed. This course shows how to perform basic poses correctly, which is exactly what is lacking nowadays.”
Perfect for beginners and advanced students alike
“This course is perfect for any yogi, whether beginner or advanced. It is easily understandable and accessible, yet also teaches how to go deeper into the asana while incorporating the breath.”
He teaches the purpose of yoga, not just the posture
“Deep is an incredible yoga teacher. His courses go far beyond teaching yoga asanas with the right posture and alignment; he teaches the true meaning and purpose of yoga.”
Like attending a retreat in India
“An excellent course that explains the asanas from an authentic Eastern perspective. The teacher inspires trust and positivity, as if you were attending a retreat in India.”
As a yoga teacher, I'm here to learn
“I find this course very detailed and informative. As a yoga teacher myself, I am watching Deep to learn more about every pose. He explains everything so well.”
Nothing had worked before this
“What is amazing about Deep is his meticulous approach to describing each pose, point, and pressure system. As someone looking to reduce weight when nothing in the past has worked, this has been incredibly helpful.”
My body feels open and free of fatigue
“The instructor provided many fine details on each pose, from start to finish, with modifications. My body feels more open and completely free of fatigue. I highly recommend this course to all levels, including teachers.”
My Surya Namaskar improved without strain
“This program really helped explain the posture and technique of major individual asanas. I feel my Surya Namaskar has improved significantly; I can now perform it more comfortably without strain.”
The basics done correctly — what's missing today
“The explanations about the poses — including how to enter and exit them — are very detailed. This course shows how to perform basic poses correctly, which is exactly what is lacking nowadays.”
Perfect for beginners and advanced students alike
“This course is perfect for any yogi, whether beginner or advanced. It is easily understandable and accessible, yet also teaches how to go deeper into the asana while incorporating the breath.”
Alignment, not a rigid posture everyone must copy
“Simple yet detailed explanations of the asanas. The instructions focus on proper alignment rather than a rigid, standard posture that everyone thinks they must copy.”
Modifications and care so students don't get hurt
“Deep is a great yoga teacher who gives clear instructions with plenty of modifications. He shows a lot of care and attention to detail so students do not get hurt.”
For anyone looking for a healing practice
“If anyone is looking for a healing yoga practice, they must take this course. It offers very in-depth details about standing postures, spine twisting, back bending, counterposes, and a relaxing Savasana.”
It shielded me from injury as a beginner
“An amazing course for a beginner who wants to take a leap into the world of yoga. The instructor guides you very efficiently through each asana, shielding you from injury.”
Detailed, but never patronizing
“I am truly being educated here. There is great attention to detail, but it is delivered in a friendly, encouraging, and non-patronizing way. The small steps are simple and beautiful.”
It feels like a good friend is guiding your practice
“I was deeply appreciative of the content and the manner of presentation. The Yogi is warm and compassionate — it feels as if a good friend is guiding your practice.”
I feel fortunate to have found such a master
“It is a wonderful learning experience learning from Deep Sir. He is highly enlightening, incredibly calm, down-to-earth, and his teaching style is gentle. I feel blessed and fortunate to have found such a master.”
Alignment, not a rigid posture everyone must copy
“Simple yet detailed explanations of the asanas. The instructions focus on proper alignment rather than a rigid, standard posture that everyone thinks they must copy.”
Modifications and care so students don't get hurt
“Deep is a great yoga teacher who gives clear instructions with plenty of modifications. He shows a lot of care and attention to detail so students do not get hurt.”
For anyone looking for a healing practice
“If anyone is looking for a healing yoga practice, they must take this course. It offers very in-depth details about standing postures, spine twisting, back bending, counterposes, and a relaxing Savasana.”
It shielded me from injury as a beginner
“An amazing course for a beginner who wants to take a leap into the world of yoga. The instructor guides you very efficiently through each asana, shielding you from injury.”
Detailed, but never patronizing
“I am truly being educated here. There is great attention to detail, but it is delivered in a friendly, encouraging, and non-patronizing way. The small steps are simple and beautiful.”
It feels like a good friend is guiding your practice
“I was deeply appreciative of the content and the manner of presentation. The Yogi is warm and compassionate — it feels as if a good friend is guiding your practice.”
I feel fortunate to have found such a master
“It is a wonderful learning experience learning from Deep Sir. He is highly enlightening, incredibly calm, down-to-earth, and his teaching style is gentle. I feel blessed and fortunate to have found such a master.”
Hover a row to pause it
SIX CONDITIONS. A LIFETIME OF WISER CARE.
Your Investment
You are receiving a way of seeing you can return to across years of practice and teaching, whenever someone arrives anxious, low, in pain, or carrying a diagnosis, and you want to meet them with more understanding.
- All 8 video lessons with Deep Kumar, Anurag Acharya, and Amiro Maitri
- Five condition lessons and three guided yoga classes
- Action steps to embody each lesson
- Safety guidance, contraindications, and red flags
- Eligibility for a 20-hour YACEP certificate after course completion and 20 hours of personal practice
- Lifetime course access
- 14-day refund window
Claim your discount before it expires
- 00Days
- 00Hours
- 00Minutes
- 00Seconds
- 00Days
- 00Hours
- 00Minutes
- 00Seconds
When you are ready for more
Continue Your Study with Yoga New Vision
The Mastermap can stand alone as a focused alignment course or become a thoughtful first step before a longer training.
01 Complete foundation
For those ready to study practice, philosophy, anatomy, teaching, and Yoga Alliance certification.
02 Advanced path
For certified teachers ready to deepen their understanding and expand their teaching.
03 Therapeutic study
For practitioners and teachers seeking a more clinically informed way to adapt yoga.
Clarity before you begin
Frequently Asked Questions
The course is described with its scope and limitations in full, because clear expectations are part of a learning space built on trust.
The Course and Its Purpose
Studying and Access
Safety, Scope, and Certification
Investment and Enrollment
EASE IS ALREADY WITHIN YOU
Eight Lessons, One Whole Person
If you are ready to look beyond the symptom and meet the whole person, yourself included, begin with the very first breath. It holds the key to everything that follows.