On Demand Seminar: Enhancing Yoga Therapeutic Work through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Join innovative yoga therapist, psychotherapist, and sensory processing specialist Dee Opp to explore how Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a mindfulness-based psychological therapy, can be integrated within yoga therapy.

This 90-minute experiential seminar introduces ACT as a clinically grounded framework that can deepen and strengthen therapeutic yoga work, supporting clients to remain present, engaged, and oriented toward meaningful change.

Why Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and yoga therapy align so well

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people relate more skilfully to their thoughts and emotions. Through mindfulness, present-moment awareness, and values-based action, ACT supports psychological flexibility, particularly when internal experience becomes challenging.

With a strong research base, ACT offers methods that are both evidence-supported and naturally aligned with the mindful, embodied foundations of yoga therapy. It provides language and structure for experiences that often arise during therapeutic practice but can be difficult to name or work with explicitly.

Working with internal patterns in practice

ACT offers a clear psychological framework for understanding how the mind pulls people out of presence during therapeutic work. Even when clients are engaged in breath, movement, or interoceptive awareness, familiar habits such as self-criticism, worry, or withdrawal can interrupt the process.

ACT helps therapists recognise these moments and support clients in creating enough internal space to stay with experience rather than being swept into reaction. This allows the embodied elements of yoga therapy to be used more fully, as clients remain engaged with what is actually happening in the moment.

From insight to meaningful change

Insight often emerges during breath work, movement, and enquiry. However, clients are not always clear how to allow that insight to shape choices beyond the session.

ACT extends yoga therapy by helping clients clarify what they want their lives to move toward. By connecting what arises in practice with values that give life direction, ACT supports therapeutic change that continues beyond the room and into daily living.

About Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

In this seminar, Dee Opp introduces ACT in practical and accessible terms, demonstrating how its core processes can be woven into yoga therapy sessions.

Using real clinical examples, Dee illustrates how ACT supports clients in staying present with intensity, navigating internal patterns, and allowing what matters to guide meaningful change. She also briefly explores how yoga therapy enhances ACT by offering grounding and embodied resources that stabilise psychological flexibility.

To support direct understanding, Dee guides a short experiential practice, giving participants a felt sense of how ACT principles can be integrated within yoga therapy in a way that feels natural, embodied, and clinically meaningful rather than technique-driven.

About Dee Opp

Deidre (Dee) Opp is a senior member of The Minded Team and is known for her capacity to integrate multiple therapeutic approaches in ways that support deep and sustained change.

She is a psychotherapist, yoga therapist, and sensory processing specialist, and manages The Minded Institute’s supervisor team. Dee brings ACT into her yoga therapy and sensory integration work with clarity, clinical sensitivity, and a grounded understanding of embodied processes.

What you will gain

• A clear understanding of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and its relevance to yoga therapy
• Insight into how ACT supports presence during challenging internal experiences
• A deeper understanding of how values orient clients toward meaningful action
• Practical ways to draw on ACT processes within yoga therapy sessions
• Clarity on how yoga therapy’s embodied tools support and stabilise ACT practices
• A direct experiential understanding of ACT woven into therapeutic yoga practice