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This committee, chosen from volunteers from IAYT Member schools, was charged with developing
recommendations to the IAYT Board of Directors for entry level standards for the training of
Yoga Therapists and related issues. Their final recommendation, after over two years of
meetings and two meetings of schools to review draft recommendations, was unanimously accepted
by the Board on May 16, 2012.
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Leigh Blashki,
Australian Institute
of Yoga Therapy, Gembrook, VIC, Australia.
Leigh is the Director of the Australian Institute of Yoga Therapy and the
Australian Institute of Yoga. He developed and currently directs Australia's first
government accredited Yoga teaching program, the Advanced Diploma of Yoga Teaching
and the country's only accredited Yoga Therapy training program, the Graduate Certificate
in Yoga Therapy. He has post-graduate qualifications in Health Sciences (Victoria
University), under-graduate qualifications in Counselling, Human Performance, Massage,
Nutrition, Yoga, Yoga Therapy and Ayurveda and has over 30 years experience as a
Yoga teacher and 18 years as a Yoga Therapist. In the 1980s Leigh was introduced
to Ayurveda and subsequently developed his studies in both India and Australia.
Among his principal Yoga teacher have been Michael Volin, A.G. Mohan and Swami Gitananda.
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Elissa Cobb, MA, ACSM,
Phoenix Rising
Yoga Therapy, Burlington, VT.
Elissa is the Director of Program at PRYT.
She has more than twenty years of combined practice and teaching experience in fitness/health
consulting, body/mind and movement practices, Yoga and Yoga Therapy. Elissa has
a Master's Degree in Embodiment Studies, is a Certified Advanced Phoenix Rising
Yoga Therapy Practitioner, a Certified Phoenix Rising Yoga Teacher, and Certified
Phoenix Rising Group Facilitator. She is also an ACSM Certified Personal Trainer.
Elissa studied with Michael Lee for several years and now leads Phoenix Rising training
programs worldwide. She is also an active speaker at mind/body industry conferences.
Her book, The Forgotten Body, was published in 2008.
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Elizabeth Gibbs, MA, E-RYT 500,
Integrative Yoga Therapy, Winsor, CT.
Beth is
a certified Yoga teacher and therapist through Integrative
Yoga Therapy.
She is a member of the IYT teaching faculty and directs
the school's Professional Yoga Therapist Internship Program.
Beth has a masters degree in Yoga Therapy and Mind/Body Health from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA.
She lives and practices in the Hartford, Connecticut area and is the author of "Ogi
Bogi, The Elephant Yogi," a Yoga book for children.
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Susi Hately,
Functional Synergy Yoga Therapy, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Susi loves bringing ideas into reality in a sustainable way.
She operates Functional Synergy yoga therapy, is an author and publisher of a number
of successful books, CDs and DVDs, and the creator of the Anatomy and Asana training
program and the Yoga for the Desk Jockey
tm Corporate program.
Many people believe that Susi is really busy, where in truth, she is not. Her secret
is the doing what she does best, and delegating the rest. She knows that only she
can do what she does, and everyone else is better at everything else. She hopes
her teachings inspire you to do what you do best.
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Shanti Shanti Khalsa, PhD,
Guru Ram Das Center for Medicine & Humanology
and Kundalini Yoga Therapeutics. Espanola, NM.
Shanti Shanti is the founder and director of the Guru Ram Das Center
for Medicine and Humanology where she and a small staff provide direct client services
and professional training, and conduct research on the medical effects of Yoga practice.
A Yoga instructor since 1971, she began to specialize in teaching Kundalini Yoga
and meditation to people with life threatening illness and their family members
in 1986, under the direction of Yogi Bhajan. She offers programs in the areas of
diabetes, cancer, chronic fatigue, HIV, anxiety, depression, and grief recovery.
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Hansa Knox, LMT,
Prana Yoga and Ayurveda Mandala, Denver, CO.
Hansa is an ongoing student of Kripalu Yoga, and, she has integrated work from other
teachers who have offered insights on the path of yoga. She utilizes yoga, yoga
cikitsa, ayurveda and massage in her practice. She owns the PranaYoga and Ayurveda
Mandala in Denver where she teaches yoga classes, yoga teacher and yoga therapy
trainings. Hansa is president of Sanga, past president of Yoga Alliance and Yoga
Teachers Of Colorado. She has served on the Board of Kripalu Center, International
Yoga College and is an advisor to International Association of Yoga Therapy.
www.pyamandala.com.
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Gary Kraftsow,
American Viniyoga Yoga Institute, Oakland, CA
Gary has been a pioneer in the transmission of Yoga for health, healing, and personal
transformation in the U.S. for nearly 30 years. He began his study of Yoga in India
with TKV Desikachar in 1974. Gary founded and is now the director of the American
Viniyoga Institute (AVI) and the author of Yoga for
Wellness and Yoga
for Transformation.
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Sonia Nelson,
Antaranga Yoga/Vedic Chant Center, Santa Fe, NM
Sonia has been a student and teacher of for over thirty years, studying privately
with T.K.V. Desikachar since 1975. As a certified KHYF Teacher Trainer and Director
of Antaranga Yoga/Vedic Chant Center in New Mexico, Sonia focuses her yoga teaching
on individualized instruction in the private setting including continuing education
and mentoring for yoga teachers. This instruction and consultation incorporates
the application of principles and practices of yoga therapy to a wide range of life
situations with her special interest being the use of pranayama, mantra and meditation
as therapeutic modalities in the healing context.
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Stephanie Sisson, LICSW, ERYT
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, The Samarya Center in Seattle, WA.
Stephanie is the managing director and clinical supervisor of The Samarya Center
in Seattle, Washington. She
has been instrumental in developing The Samarya Center's
yoga
therapy approach, Integrated Movement Therapy? as well as the center's training
program. Stephanie has almost twenty years of experience working with people of
all ages facing a wide variety of conditions and challenges. She has been
published in the International
Journal of Yoga Therapy and
Yoga Therapy Today and has presented at the SYTAR conference,
in addition to the National Association of Social Workers
Washington state conference.
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Marlysa Sullivan, MPT, E-RYT,
Pranakriya Yoga Therapy, Atlanta, GA.
Marlysa is a professional physical
therapist and Yoga instructor. She has developed and teaches in the Pranakriya Yoga
Therapy curriculum which integrates an understanding of Tantra Hatha Yoga's healing
methods seen in the light of modern medical and psychological therapies. She teaches
functional anatomy and therapeutic yoga as part of the Pranakriya 500-hour teacher
training program and other teacher training programs across the country. She has
developed and teaches the complementary and alternative therapies course at Georgia
State University in the Physical therapy department and currently offers CEU courses
for professional physical therapists in integrating yoga into physical therapy practice.
Marlysa has a private yoga therapy and physical therapy practice in Atlanta where
she focuses on combining physical therapy evaluation and treatment techniques with
asana, pranayama and meditation. To find out more about Marlysa's programs go to
www.anatomyofyoga.com
. To find out more about Pranakriya go to www.pranakriya.com.
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Molly Lannon Kenny, IAYT board representative.
Molly Lannon Kenny is a nationally recognized innovator, researcher and
educator in the field of Yoga-based therapy, and one of the nation's
leading experts in neurophysiology and Yoga. She is a licensed
speech-language pathologist and certified yoga instructor, and is
the founder and director of The Samarya Center for Integrated Movement
Therapy and Ashtanga Yoga. Molly developed Integrated Movement Therapy?
her innovative approach for students of all ages with exceptional challenges,
combining her love of yoga with her extensive clinical background. She has
provided therapy in a variety of settings to a broad range of individuals
and is well known in the field as a dynamic, creative and effective
therapist and advocate.
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John Kepner, MA, MBA, IAYT Executive Director
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John is the executive director of IAYT, as well as a practicing Yoga teacher and
therapist with a professional background in economics, finance, and non-profit management.
He holds teacher and therapist certifications from the American Viniyoga Institute
and a teaching certification from A.G. Mohan in Chennai, India. John often lectures
on Yoga and Yoga therapy for allopathic institutions and co-taught the course on
Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the University of Arkansas Medical School
for two years. His work for IAYT and his writings for the International Journal of
Yoga Therapy often have an economic and public policy perspective.
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Daniel Seitz, JD, EdD,
Facilitator and Advisor to the Committee
Dan has worked for more than 20 years in the field of complementary and alternative medicine
education, accreditation and regulation. He currently serves as the executive director of the
Council on Naturopathic Medical Education, consults with alternative medicine colleges and
organizations on accreditation, strategic planning, marketing, administration and other
matters, and does professional facilitation. Dan previously served as the founding dean for
the School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine at New York Chiropractic College,
chair of the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, president of
New England School of Acupuncture, and chief of the Acupuncture Unit for the Massachusetts
Board of Medicine.
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Clare Collins,
RN, PhD. CYT, Prior Board Representative to the Committee
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Clare completed yoga teacher training at the Esther Myer's Studio in Toronto,
the Advanced Yoga Teacher Training Program at the American Viniyoga Institute
and the AVI Yoga Therapist Program in 2005. She is currently a Yoga Therapist in
private practice and is registered with the Yoga Alliance at the ERYT-500 level.
Clare is a registered nurse with a specialization in mental health, Professor Emeritus
of Nursing at Michigan State University and member of the American Academy of Nursing.
She completed a five year post doctoral fellowship at the National Institute of
Mental Health in geriatric mental health research and has been a principal investigator
and co-principal investigator on NIH research grants. She is a curriculum
consultant at the American Viniyoga Institute and an educator of yoga teachers and
yoga therapists at national training programs.
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