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Matthew J. Taylor, PT, PhD, president, has worked closely with IAYT for over ten years as a contributing author, board advisor and liaison with physical rehabilitation professionals. His yoga background is eclectic to include the entire Integrative Yoga Therapy program, where he also taught and ran the operations in 1999. Matt is the owner of two yoga therapy-based rehabilitation clinics www.myrehab.com. He’s contributed yoga therapy chapters in two textbooks, one for rehabilitation graduate students and the other for medical professionals. His Transformational Learning & Change doctorate dissertation was a yoga-based back school study. Matt brings his love of yoga and developing new enterprises to the board, sharing both his therapeutic perspective and business acumen.
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Eleanor Criswell, Ed.D., vice president, is professor of psychology at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California, where in cooperation with Joseph Le Page of Integrative Yoga Therapy she developed one of the first graduate programs in Yoga therapy in the United States. She is the author of many publications on Yoga and Somatics, including How Yoga Works: An Introduction to Somatic Yoga. She also has extensive experience with nonprofit associations and has been the editor of Somatics magazine-journal http://www.somaticsed.com/magJournal.html since 1990.
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Clare Collins, R.N.,
Ph.D., CYT,
treasurer, 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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Janice Gates, past president, is the founding director of the Yoga Garden Studio of San Anselmo, California, where she offers trainings and workshops in therapeutic Yoga for Yoga professionals and health professionals. She is a longtime member of IAYT and was a principal teacher for Yoga Research and Education Center's 700-hour teacher training program in 2002-2003. Her teaching is rooted in the Krishnamacharya lineage and influenced by her studies in Somatic therapies, Ayurveda, and Buddhist meditation.
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