This training has been cancelled. 

NEW! Hybrid YCat Level One Training
VIRTUAL & IN PERSON
Virtual Dates: Saturdays & Sundays – 9am- 2pm CST
AUG 23-24, SEP 13-14, SEP 20-21, OCT 4-5, OCT 11-12, OCT 17-18, OCT 24-25, 2025
In Person Dates: AUG 7-10, 2025 at Integral Yoga San Francisco, CA

• 100 HR Certification Tuition: $1650
• Registration and Deposit by July 20. Full tuition is due by August 1.
• Room and Board for San Francisco is Self pay
• 20% discount for Integral Yoga teachers, enrollees in IYI Yoga Therapy Program and Accessible Yoga Ambassadors

YCat: Yoga Therapy in Cancer and Chronic Illness began as a workshop and later developed into a three level training program with the option of a 100 hr certificate of attendance or a 300 hour YCat certification. YCat is open to Yoga teachers who have completed their 200-hour training and have one year of Yoga teaching experience as well as health care professionals.* The program was created by the late Jnani Chapman who said, “I created YCat Yoga Therapy programs in 1997 after seeing the many challenges that cancer patients face during treatments, hospitalizations and recovery at home. By introducing appropriately adapted Yoga therapy like YCat, people can reduce the severity of distressing side effects from cancer and treatment. We consistently hear, “I feel so much better.” YCat teachers are trained to understand underlying concepts and physiological rationales of Yoga and cancer in order to meet their students where they are and individualize their sessions and classes safely and authentically.

Disclaimer: YCat is not a Yoga therapy school however, the program has been providing elements of Yoga therapy in its instruction since it began and prior to Yoga therapy being a certified discipline through IAYT. Certified Yoga teachers and certified Yoga therapists can benefit from this specialized training for continuing education in evidence informed practices for Yoga in oncology and chronic illness.

*Pre-requisites:
200hr Yoga teacher training
1 year of teaching experience Completion of Pre Program Assignments

• Any Licensed Health Professional(LHP) is welcome to attend all YCat levels.
• LHPs will receive a certificate of attendance.
• To receive certification of training, LHPs need to complete a 200-hour Yoga teacher training.

Sandra Susheela Gilbert, BA, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500 has been the director of YCat since December 2017 and has spent the last fourteen years as Senior Faculty of YCat and facilitating YCat programs alongside YCat founder, Jnani Chapman. She is a highly recognized Integral Yoga teacher holding advanced training certificates in Stress Management, Integrative and Mind/Body therapies, CancerGuides and Patient Navigation. She has taught for Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation at Beth Israel/Mt. Sinai Medical Center in NYC and taught the YCat curriculum for the Mt. Sinai Breast Health Resource Center and in the Ruttenberg Oncology infusion center. Sandra Susheela has also taught at retreats and training’s for the Omega Institute, for the Center for Mind Body Medicine and for Chai Lifeline. In addition, she was one of the first Urban Zen integrative therapists in practice in NYC for their 2008 initiative and research. Sandra currently teaches in Yoga research and as a research assistant at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing in Nashville, TN. Sandra is appreciated for her patience, presence and dedication in service to those who are going through the experience of cancer and cancer treatment as well as the YCat teachers she trains and mentors. She shares her service through the lens of Yoga and says, “Wherever you are, Yoga is there for you.”