MISTY 2024 - Panel & Participant Discussion: Where is Yoga Therapy at?
MISTY 2024 - Panel & Participant Discussion: Where is Yoga Therapy at?
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Overview
Why is Yoga Therapy not taking off !? We want your Input and Experiences!
This session, from the 2024 Montreal International Symposium on Therapeutic Yoga (MISTY) is a recording of an open discussion with participants, directed by Staffan Elgelid.
Catherine Justice, Associate Associate Editor for the International Journal of Yoga Therapy was also present by Staffan's side to field any IAYT - International Association of Yoga Therapists-related questions.
What are your thoughts or hopes for the future of yoga therapy and are you stuck on how to put those into action?
We all clearly have a passion for yoga as a therapy alongside health care, so let's chat about it!
Learning Objectives
In this online course, you will:
- Network & build professional bonds - where do we begin?
- Learn about ways to help bring more credibility in our field as yoga teachers.
Panel Leader Bios
Staffan Elgelid, PT, PhD, GCFP, C-IAYT, RYT500
Staffan is an Associate Professor of Physical Therapy at Nazareth College in Rochester NY. He is also a Feldenkrais Practitioner and Yoga Therapist. A native of Sweden, Staffan is working with private clients and has presented at international conferences on a wide variety of topics such as Embodied Anatomy, Guided Imagery, Healthy Aging, Awareness, Core Strengthening, Feldenkrais, and Yoga.
Staffan co-edited “Yoga Therapy: Theory and Practice”, and is co-author of “Yoga Therapy for Stress and Anxiety.” Staffan is on the faculty at the YogaLife Institute in Devon, PA and also produces the “On Your Authority” Podcasts.
Catherine Justice, PT, DPT, FAIHM, C-IAYT, CST, E-RYT
Catherine Justice is an integrative physical therapist, a certified yoga therapist, a yoga researcher, an artist, and a meditation instructor. She received her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from the University of Minnesota in 2010 and graduated with honors from the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine’s two-year Integrative Medicine Fellowship program in 2022.
Catherine has studied many styles of yoga and meditation for over 3 decades and is the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Yoga Therapy. She is the founder of The Art of Wellness, LLC - an organization dedicated to optimizing wellness for individuals, organizations, and communities through customized, whole-person integrative physical therapy, consulting, coaching, and teaching.
Catherine has dedicated her career to helping to improve equity and reduce suffering in our world, including extensive training and experience helping people who experience chronic pain.
Audience
This course is for anyone who is a yoga therapist is thinking or becoming one, or is simply interested in learning more about this profession and IAYT, the International Association of Yoga Therapists.
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Co-Founder, President of MISTY
Her passion for yoga inspired her to share yoga with a few friends in the basement of one of whom eventually lost her battle with cancer. She soon realized her love of yoga could only be surpassed by the desire to share it with others & the joy of seeing them benefit from yoga on many levels.
In 2002 just after delivering a stillborn boy Helene embarked on a 200hr YTT Certification Course. During 2003 she continued the training at same time began teaching yoga at the St. Lazare Community Center. Helene continues to teach regular yoga classes with a therapeutic approach, offers Private Yoga Therapy Sessions & mentors a 200hr Yoga Teacher Training. Winter of 2018 she will introduce an Advanced Yoga Teacher Training focusing on Therapeutics.
Helene is also co-founder of this international conference bringing health care professionals & yoga therapist together with the mission of integrating yoga into the Canadian health care system.
Material included in this course
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Panel & Participant Discussion: Where is Yoga Therapy at?
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Panel & Participant Discussion: Where is Yoga Therapy at?
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Feedback
Can I get a certificate for Continuing Education Credits/Units (CEs) for watching this course?
Yes this course counts for 2 CEs with IAYT. In order for the appropriate CEU information to be displayed on your certificate of completion, please add your CEU jurisdiction information on your Embodia profile. Learn how to do so in this guide.
I am not in the yoga profession, will this still be of interest to me?
If you are interested in learning about yoga therapy and its association, IAYT, maybe for referral, this would be informative to you.
Is a certificate of completion included with this course?
Once you have completed the course, a certificate of completion (including learning hours and course information) will be generated. You can download this certificate at any time. To learn more about course certificates on Embodia please visit this guide.