Adjunct Faculty - CPSYC 2451: Yoga Mental and Emotional Health; Fall Semester 2026; In-person, On-campus

The Opportunity Lesley University’s Department of Psychology+ is seeking a qualified adjunct faculty member to teach: CPSYC 2451 - Yoga Mental and Emotional Health;
Fall Semester 2026;
Mondays 6:45 - 9:15pm;
In-person, On-campus.

Course

Description:

This course explores how yoga can be used as a tool to support mental and emotional health. Drawing on the philosophical and theoretical principles of yoga, students will learn how yoga postures, breathing techniques, and mindfulness meditation can promote emotional balance, healing, and personal growth. Special emphasis will be placed on mental health topics of primary concern to college students, including depression, anxiety, body image, trauma, and addiction.

Students will engage in a variety of yoga practices designed to develop practical skills that strengthen their capacity for inner witness consciousness, self-soothing, grounding, and self-regulation. Students will also be guided in developing and maintaining a personal yoga practice tailored to their individual health needs and will complete a research project related to a topic of personal health interest.

• A Master’s degree in Psychology or a related field (required)
• PhD or terminal degree (preferred)
• Demonstrated success teaching at the undergraduate level
• Prior experience with yoga practice
• Commitment to student-centered, inclusive, and equitable teaching practices
• Experience in constructivist, inquiry-based learning
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Located in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Lesley University is highly regarded for its graduate and undergraduate programs in the human arts of education, the arts, and applied social sciences. Lesley fosters a highly creative environment in which innovative ideas thrive, theory is integrated with practice and its 6,400 students and 90,000 alumni are empowered to improve and enrich communities. Lesley is committed to the ongoing pursuit of strategic diversity initiatives that help to position diversity, equity, and inclusion as fundamental to institutional and academic excellence  doing so, Lesley strives for a campus culture and community that fosters a true sense of belonging for all, provides opportunity for everyone to participate equally and fully in the Lesley experience, and helps to develop each individual's capacity to confidently and competently engage within and across difference.

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Lesley University Adjunct Faculty positions are governed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).

At our core, we are a caring and compassionate community bound together by our passion for improving the lives of others through education, mental health, and the arts. At Lesley, we believe actively advancing our own and all other’s potential leads to a just and humane world. Lesley is the only university in the country focused on advancing human potential through the life-time cultivation of professionals in education, mental health and the arts.

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