Change the way you think about healing—and learning
What is yoga therapy and how does it address the whole person, whether that person is working with disease or wellness? In this episode, Kim sits down with four teachers certified by the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) to learn about the transformational relationships, whole-person care, and wellness paradigm that characterize the yoga therapy profession. In order of speaking, the guests are:
Lois Steinberg, Ph.D., Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher Level 4, C-IAYT, Director Iyengar Yoga Champaign Urbana
Saraswathi Vasudevan, Founder and Director of YogaVahini
Diane Finlayson, Department Chair of the MS in Yoga Therapy program at Maryland University of Integrative Health
Molly McManus, Current Board President of the International Association of Yoga Therapists and Co-owner of Yoga North International SomaYoga Institute
The group discusses how:
they work with the western medical model.
you can change the way you think of the learning process itself through yoga therapy, and how working with yourself is the most fundamental thing you can do.
it's not about expanding the numbers of conditions but about taking in the complexity of the human being.
interoceptive information from the body informs yoga therapy, versus talk therapy, which is just about the mind.
“It is really about change at many levels.”