Blog: What’s Happening in Yoga Therapy
The CLARIFY guidelines: A call for detailed reporting in yoga research
How do yoga researchers report on yoga interventions? Why does this matter for students, clients, and patients? In a recently published article, yoga researchers share the CheckList stAndardising the Reporting of Interventions For Yoga (CLARIFY) guidelines—a 21-item...
“Working with a Client with Breast Cancer: A Yoga Therapy Case Study”
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and we’re sharing an in-depth look into how one yoga therapist worked with a client undergoing treatment for breast cancer. In this interview, Lisa Alexander, C-IAYT, shares how she used yoga therapy to support a client...
Why Restorative Yoga may not be what you want—but could be what you need
By Caren Baginski Over the years I've compiled a list of reasons why people have told me they don't want to practice Restorative Yoga. As a Restorative Yoga teacher, yoga therapist, and relaxation advocate, these comments can be discouraging—but they’re not...
“Yoga Nidra: Help With Sleep and Anxiety”
Yoga nidra can support people in reducing stress, soothing pain, and promoting a deep sense of well-being—it can also help ease anxiety and improve sleep. In an article featured this week in the U.S. News & World Report, one expert explains the mechanisms behind...
Nine books to read now on yoga therapy and health
Yoga therapy can inform care across a range of disciplines—from rehabilitation to diabetes care to learning self-care through the yogic map of mind. Here are nine books that will teach you more about how yoga therapy can support your practice or profession. For yoga...
The benefits of combining yoga therapy and art therapy
By Ellen G. Horovitz When blending yoga therapy and art therapy, you clear the space for artistic expression—making room for expansion, acceptance, creativity, and growth. This state of going within—“transpersonal consciousness”— is an expansion toward others that...
Video: Chair yoga for easing tension and reducing pain
September is Pain Awareness Month, and we’re sharing a guided practice that can be done anytime, anywhere to encourage movement and even potentially bring relief from chronic pain. In 2019, one in five U.S. adults in the had chronic pain, and 7.4% of adults had...
Yoga therapy in neurosupportive care: Providing person-centered support
By Nathalie de Meyenburg As a yoga therapist, I have been with clients through good times, difficult and bewildering times, and yes, the process of dying. This profoundly moving work has meant watching someone with early-onset Parkinson’s change from a well-spoken,...
Yoga for adapting to change: Using the kleshas to tackle pandemic-related stress
By Shirley Telles Yoga contributes to stress reduction, life satisfaction, and overall well-being. It can also foster a sense of stability when we are faced with change. Change and uncertainty can feel particularly overwhelming these days. In addition to the...
IAYT member encourages veterans to lean on community and practice
When recent events in Afghanistan prompted some veterans to reach out to Veterans Yoga Project for support, founder and executive director Dan Libby, PhD, responded. "Over the past few days, we have heard from a number of our veterans who have served in Afghanistan,...
