Yoga Vāsiṣṭha Hypnotherapy · 120 hours · from January 2028
YVH Practitioner: The Protocol Year
The third step of the YVH pathway. Nine months in which you learn eighteen written protocols, carry three clients through a whole course of work under supervision, and are assessed for the title YVH Practitioner.
- 120 hours · 36 weeks
- 18 protocols in English and Spanish
- 3 supervised clients
- For certified hypnotherapists
- After Foundations and The Four Thresholds
In preparation
The dates, the format and the fee on this page are the plan for the first cohort. They are confirmed when enrolment opens in September 2027, as the first cohort of The Four Thresholds begins. The full competency framework is published before then.
Where it sits
From knowing the work to carrying it with a client
Foundations teaches the model. The Four Thresholds teaches regression. Practitioner is where you learn to carry a whole course of work with a real client, to a written standard, and are assessed on it.
What a practitioner can do
Ten competencies
Eight follow the eight phases of the YVH protocol; two cover ethics and measurement. Each has written behavioural markers, and faculty rate them on recorded sessions.
- 1
Agreement
Screen, obtain informed consent, agree one aim and build a written case map.
- 2
Settling
Settle a client, calibrate depth on the seven rungs and test it.
- 3
Disciplined imagination
Train attention and imagery without suggesting content.
- 4
Formative imprints
Choose the nearest threshold and guide a regression that is client-led, resourced and returned.
- 5
Parts dialogue
Run YVH Parts Dynamics with protectors, polarised parts and the Six Wounds.
- 6
The witness
Stabilise the witness and use it as the client's own resource.
- 7
Living it
Rehearse the next real situation and prescribe practice between sessions.
- 8
The return
Bring every session to a full return and end a course of work well.
- 9
Ethics and scope
Hold the limits: experience, not evidence; no diagnosis; referral when it is needed.
- 10
Measure and reflect
Use the FP20 and a session measure, notice a client who is not improving, and bring it to supervision.
The Protocol Library
Eighteen protocols in six families
Each protocol is written word for word in English and Spanish, so two practitioners in two countries deliver the same work.
Opening
- 1 · The first conversation: screening, consent, aim and the case map
- 2 · Settling and the ladder: induction and depth on the seven rungs
- 3 · Measure and review: the FP20, a session measure and the rule for a client who is not improving
Story
- 4 · A tale as suggestion: choosing among the 64 tales with the Compass, telling it, and the conversation after
- 5 · The client's own tale: a personal script recorded for practice at home
Voices
- 6 · YVH Parts Dynamics: the full dialogue, with protectors and polarised parts
- 7 · The witness: stabilising it with the breath-pause
The Six Wounds
- 8 · Repression to Honesty
- 9 · Denial to Ease
- 10 · Shame to Humour, held with love, compassion and forgiveness
- 11 · Rejection to Gentleness
- 12 · Guilt to Forgiveness
- 13 · Separation to Care/Love
The Four Thresholds
- 14 · Age
- 15 · Womb
- 16 · Past life
- 17 · Interlife
- Each one placed inside a full course of work
Integration
- 18 · Living it: future rehearsal, the Forty-Day Path as a prescription, and ending a course of work
Every protocol is one card with the same ten parts
- 1When to use it, and when not to.
- 2The rung of the ladder it works at.
- 3The pre-talk, in plain words.
- 4The script, word for word.
- 5Its tale and its song.
- 6The questions that open, beside the ones that lead.
- 7What to do when strong feeling comes: stay, slow, ground.
- 8The return and the aftercare.
- 9What to measure and write down.
- 10A ten-point fidelity checklist for the observer and the supervisor.
Each card comes with a demonstration narrated by Luis Miguel Gallardo and a handout for the client. The six wound protocols follow Shadow, Gift and Essence from the Integrative Emotional Alchemy Framework.
Interlife regression is taught here as part of YVH. It is not Life Between Lives®, the method of the Michael Newton Institute, which trains and certifies its own facilitators.
How the nine months run
Three terms of twelve weeks
Two weeks in three are a live teaching session; the third is a supervision group of six people.
Term 1 · The craft
Weeks 1 to 12 · protocols 1 to 7
Each protocol is demonstrated, then rehearsed in threes against its checklist. A readiness check in week 10 opens casework.
Term 2 · The wounds
Weeks 13 to 24 · protocols 8 to 13
Clients one and two begin. Supervision works from recordings and write-ups.
Term 3 · The whole course
Weeks 25 to 36 · protocols 14 to 18
Client three. Assessed sessions, the live demonstration and the case studies.
Where the 120 hours go
48
24 live teaching sessions of 2 hours
18
12 supervision groups of 90 minutes
18
12 practice sessions in threes
24
Supervised casework: 18 client sessions with their write-ups
12
The narrated protocol demonstrations and reading
The title
Assessed, not earned by attendance
YVH Practitioner is the first YVH credential that names a level of practice. To earn it you:
- Attend at least 20 of the 24 live sessions and 10 of the 12 supervision groups.
- Complete three cases of six sessions, each with the FP20 before and after and a written case study.
- Submit two recorded sessions, with the client's consent. One must meet the standard on all ten competencies.
- Demonstrate two protocols live, drawn on the day.
- Pass an open-book paper on ethics, scope and what the evidence does and does not show.
If you do not meet the standard at first, you receive written feedback and one further attempt within three months.
Register and renewal
Practitioners are listed on a public register with their language, country and the date the title was issued. The title is renewed every two years with 20 hours of continuing education, six hours of supervision and one recorded session reviewed.
What it is not
It is not a licence. It does not replace a hypnotherapy certification or the rules of the place where you work, and it is not ICF-accredited. It is issued by the World Happiness Academy to those who meet its standard.
Measurement and research
Every case is measured
Each supervised case produces the same small record: the FP20 before and after, a session measure and the protocols used. In psychotherapy research, monitoring outcomes session by session has a small but reliable positive effect on results. The program does not assume that this carries over to YVH: it collects its own data. Barkham et al., 2023
With each client's written consent, and once a research ethics committee has approved it, anonymised case records may contribute to the first practice-based research on YVH.
Safeguards
What the title asks of every practitioner
- What appears in regression is a subjective experience. It is never used to confirm forgotten events, and never offered to a client as proof of anything that happened, in this life or in another.
- The practitioner does not suggest content. The client finds the images and decides what they mean.
- Every client is screened, and a client who is not improving is brought to supervision or referred.
- The work is practised inside your hypnotherapy certification and the rules of the place where you work. It does not replace medical, psychiatric or psychological care.
- No belief is asked of the practitioner or of the client. YVH is a model proposed for research, and its hypotheses are still to be tested.
Entry requirements
Who can join
- A hypnotherapy certification from a recognised school or association.
- YVH Foundations and YVH Regression: The Four Thresholds completed.
- A practice in which you can see three clients during the program, with their consent to supervision.
- Working English or Spanish for the protocols; working English for the live sessions.
Coaches without hypnotherapy training begin with Foundations, which has its own coaching track. The protocols of this program use formal trance and regression, so they are for certified hypnotherapists.
Calendar and fee
The plan for the first cohort
- Start
- Thursday 13 January 2028, after the first cohort of The Four Thresholds ends
- Live sessions
- Thursdays at 14:00 Madrid time, January to October 2028, with breaks at Easter and in August
- Cohort
- 12 to 16 people, so that every person is observed
- Founding cohort fee
- 2,490 USD, payable in three parts of 830 USD, one at the start of each term
- From the second cohort
- 3,190 USD
- Participants resident in India
- 125,000 INR
The whole pathway costs a founding participant 4,870 USD for 190 hours. Enrolment is not open yet.
Yoga Vāsiṣṭha Hypnotherapy (YVH)
The YVH pathway: three levels, 190 hours
The tales of the Supreme Yoga, trained attention, parts dialogue and regression, taught in three levels with Fundamental Peace as the measure. Each level opens the next.
These are continuing-education programs of the World Happiness Academy. The levels are the Academy's own: they are not ICF levels, the programs are not ICF-accredited, and they do not replace a hypnotherapy certification or local regulation.
See the three levels on one pageFaculty
Luis Miguel Gallardo
Creator of the YVH model · Clinical and transpersonal hypnotherapist · ICF PCC
Luis Miguel Gallardo is Professor of Practice at the Yogananda School of Spirituality and Happiness, Shoolini University (India), Founder and President of the World Happiness Foundation and Co-CEO of the Institute of Interpersonal Hypnotherapy. He is the author of The Mind That Makes the World, and he teaches and supervises this program.
Questions
Before you join the list
- Can I join without The Four Thresholds?
- No. The protocols place each of the four regressions inside a full course of work, so you need to have crossed them first. Foundations is open today, and the first cohort of The Four Thresholds meets from September 2027.
- Is YVH Practitioner a licence or an accreditation?
- No. It is a title issued by the World Happiness Academy to those who meet its standard on ten competencies. It does not replace a hypnotherapy certification or local regulation, and it is not ICF-accredited.
- Do I need my own clients?
- Yes. You see three clients for six sessions each, with their consent to supervision and to the recording of the sessions you submit for assessment.
- Do the scripts replace my judgement?
- No. A protocol gives you the words, the order and a checklist, and it also tells you when not to use it. Choosing the protocol, pacing it and stopping it remain your decisions, and supervision is where you review them.
- When does it start, and what does it cost?
- The first cohort is planned from Thursday 13 January 2028, at 14:00 Madrid time, for 36 weeks. The planned fee for that founding cohort is 2,490 USD, payable in three parts; from the second cohort it is 3,190 USD, and for participants resident in India it is 125,000 INR. These are confirmed when enrolment opens in September 2027.
- Is the fourth threshold Life Between Lives?
- No. It is interlife regression as taught in YVH. Life Between Lives® is the method of the Michael Newton Institute, which trains and certifies its own facilitators.
First cohort
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Enrolment opens in September 2027. Leave your email and you will be among the first to receive the competency framework and the enrolment date.
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The way in is YVH Foundations, and enrolment is open.