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Yoga was a hot topic at the 7th annual Integrative Healthcare Symposium. From yoga in the military to a planned teacher training in Haiti to an explosion of web applications for medical professionals to introduce yoga to patients, the practice is reaching deep into America’s most venerable institutions and professions.
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Yoga Makes a Splash at Integrated Healthcare Conference
March 9th, 2011 
levis25 
Posted in Personal Stories, Relaxation Techniques 
Tags: academic, america, anthony-fisher, chairman, considerations, devastating, director, haiti, health, military, practice, such-as-guided, symposium, training 
Comments OffAccessible Yoga
September 27th, 2010 kate
Teaching yoga should be accessible to anyone called to do it. That’s the idea behind a unique teacher training starting on November 16th in Northern California.
Accessible Teacher Training (ATT) is a 400-hour Integral Yoga teacher training certification program that is specifically designed to train people with disabilities who want to become yoga teachers.
The innovative program–available to people who have paralysis, a disability, chronic illness, or physical limitation–is the only one of it’s kind that meets national standards.
Integral Yoga instructor Jivana Heyman started Accessible Yoga in 2007 after a student with MS dropped out of his regular training because he fell behind. “It began with the idea that anyone who loves yoga can share it, and that a physical limitation does not limit spiritual growth,” he says.
For more information visit accessibleyoga.org.
Posted in Personal Stories, yoga poses Tags: accessible, area-based, att, chronic-illness, health-writer, limit-spiritual, meets-national, training, travel & events, unique-teacher Comments OffYoga and the New Year
January 5th, 2010 kate 2009 was an amazing year for yoga news. There were lots of great stories–inspirational, shocking, significant, and trivial.
Yoga was portrayed positively and negatively in movies and reality TV shows. The debate about state licensing of teacher training programs generated grew as more and more states began to ask yoga schools to get licensed and more teachers fought back. Celebrities of all shapes and sizes found their way into yoga studios. Swami Ramdev made outlandish claims about yoga’s ability to cure homosexuality. And, of course we all debated the difference and likenesses between yoga and religion (multiple times).
But this blog is not about 2009.
2010 is sure to be an even better year. It’s already off to a great start. If news stories are any indication, everybody and their brother has resolved to do yoga this year. A recent blog post on Chicagonow.com predicted a rise in digital yoga, yoga gyms, and more gyms offering yoga.
What do you think will happen 2010? What was your favorite yoga news story of 2009?
Posted in Relaxation Techniques, yoga poses Tags: difference, grew-as-more, gyms-offering, made-outlandish, multiple-times, news, state-licensing, teachers-fought, the-difference, training Comments OffTeaching: It’s Harder Than It Looks
September 16th, 2009 levis25
Slate magazine’s site Doublex.com recently featured an article about the trials and tribulations of being a yoga teacher. We all know making a living as a teacher isn’t easy, and with teacher training enrollment up during a down economy it sounds like the competition for teaching gigs is going to keep growing. (From a supply and demand standpoint, that also might mean lower pay for the teachers who land those gigs, which would make it harder than ever to pay the bills.) “If you want yoga to pay your bills, you’ve got to leave the deep breathing and asanas at the door and do the capitalist hustle,” writes the article’s author Anna Sale.
My question is for the yoga teachers who read this blog. Do you feel like you’re doing a “capitalist hustle” these days, juggling many different small jobs just to pay the bills?
Read the whole story on:http://blogs.yogajournal.com/yogabuzz/
Posted in Relaxation Techniques, health benefits Tags: capitalist, deep-breathing, leave-the-deep, make-it-harder, the-competition, training, yoga, yoga-teachers Comments OffYJ Exclusive: Michigan Yoga Teacher Charged with Criminal Misdemeanor
August 1st, 2009 wynona By YJ correspondent Nancy O’Brien.
Yoga Journal,
tracking down furtive reports that a yoga teacher had been arrested in a
Michigan crackdown on unlicensed teacher training programs, has learned that
state police appeared at Dancing Feet Yoga in New Buffalo April 30 with a
warrant for the arrest of studio owner Don Wenig. The charge: operating a
proprietary school without a license, which carries a penalty of up to 90 days
in jail or a fine not to exceed $1,000–or both.
Posted in Personal Stories, yoga poses Tags: arrest, books, criminal, criminal-trial, daily, journal, michigan, training 1 Comment »