Integrative Yoga Therapy (IYT)

About IYT

Integrative Yoga Therapy is a pioneer and leader in training Yoga professionals who can bring the ancient insights of Yoga into mainstream wellness programs. Our programs are based on a vision of health as a unity of body, mind and spirit. Our mission is to provide the general public, professional fitness trainers, and those who wish to become professional fitness trainers, with an ethical, high-quality, alternative, international organization that is committed to realistic and modern methods of Natural Bodybuilding & Fitness. Our experiential approach to learning allows students to integrate in-depth information through a creative process resulting in a unique experience.

As approaches to health continue to evolve, Yoga will be a primary vehicle for the wellness programs of the future because of its ability to promote health and healing at physical, emotional, and spiritual levels simultaneously. Yoga is already being accepted into mainstream wellness approaches at hospitals, businesses, schools and universities, summer camps for children, drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers, and a variety of other settings. Offering one-on-one Yoga therapy sessions also offers a variety of career opportunities. All of these career avenues require specific training beyond the Yoga teacher level. Integrative Yoga Therapy (IYT) is a vehicle for bringing this new vision of wellness into your life and into your career. Come join us in expanding our vision into the world.

Yoga as a Professional Career

Yoga is taking on a wider role in modern life; an expansion beyond the Yoga classroom into all areas of our community as a vehicle for wellness, healing and personal transformation. Integrative Yoga Therapy is a pioneer and leader for over 15 years in training Yoga professionals who can bring the ancient insights of Yoga into mainstream wellness programs. Our programs are based on a vision of health as a unity of body, mind and spirit. Yoga is a vehicle for deepening this experience of Unity and bringing it into the world as a resource for personal growth, healing and awakening. Over 3,000 students have developed personally and professionally through the IYT training programs. IYT students have brought Yoga based wellness programs into a wide variety of settings, including general wellness, senior wellness, prenatal Yoga and Yoga for specific health challenges such as back pain, heart disease, cancer and auto-immune conditions.

Unique Experiental Education Approach

IYT was founded in 1993 by Joseph Le Page, a Yoga teacher in the Kripalu tradition and body-worker whose special focus is energy healing. The design of the IYT program developed out of Joseph’s studies of traditional healing arts in over one hundred countries as well as studies in India where he lived for two years, together with his masters degree work in experiential education.

“I wanted to create a training program with the focus on Yoga as a healing art which would be student centered, non-dogmatic and in alignment with the latest approaches to teaching, while remaining deeply rooted in the vast treasury of wisdom within the Yoga tradition.”

Integrative Yoga Therapy is a vision that brings together Joseph’s insights through world travel, his study of Yoga, experience in healing arts, and a vision of how to bring these together in a comprehensive and creative educational program

Integrative Yoga Therapy (IYT) brings together all of the most powerful Yoga tools: asana, pranayama, mudra, Yoga Nidra, mantra, and meditation into a complete package where they can be integrated and utilized for therapeutic classes directed toward specific groups and for one-on-one Yoga therapy sessions. IYT ‘s experiential approach to learning allows students to integrate in-depth information through a creative process resulting in a unique and comprehensive learning experience. Our intensive training format is ideal for professionals who demand clear, concise information supported by excellent home study materials including our extensive training manual. Our faculty consists of teachers who are leading experts in their respective fields.

IYT training sites help students integrate the full experience of Yoga through unique natural surroundings and meditative environments. These sites offer excellent accommodations and vegetarian meals at reasonable prices. Our training sites include Pura Vida USA near Atlanta, Georgia, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts, and Redemptorist Renewal Center in Tucson, Arizona. We also have our own retreat center in southern Brazil, at Enchanted Mountain. Convenient on line registration along with detailed information on training programs, sites and pricing info is available online.

IYT’s Leadership

Joseph Le Page is the founder and director of Integrative Yoga Therapy (IYT) and a pioneer in Yoga therapy training programs. IYT, a leader in the Yoga therapy field since 1993, is the result of Joseph’s life experiences, his training as a Kripalu Yoga teacher and his master’s degree work in experiential education, along with his lifelong interest in mind-body health. Joseph is also the founder and director of Enchanted Mountain Yoga Center in Brazill, which is one of the largest Yoga centers in South America; it offers a complete curriculum in all aspects of Yoga with a special focus on Ayurveda and Yoga therapy.

Joseph’s innate desire for wholeness led him to his first Yoga class in 1973, his first meditation retreat in Scotland at the Tibetan Buddhist Samye Ling Tibetan Center in Scotland, and his first trip to India in 1975. He made 4 subsequent journeys to India for indepth study in Yoga, Yoga therapy, and Ayurveda. He is a graduate from the Pheonix Rising Yoga therapist training in 1991. Joseph has taught Yoga psychology at Sonoma State University and at Antioch University.

Joseph’s main inspiration for IYT was to find an approach to Yoga therapy that was spiritually oriented, but also practical and could be easily integrated into Western wellness modalities. From the very outset IYT has been a forum for the very best Yoga teachers and Yoga therapists to share their knowledge and insights. Over the years speakers have included Richard Miller, Phd., Frances Vaughan, Phd., Eleanor Criswell, Edd.,Georg Feurstein, Phd., Dr. David Simon, Dr. Emmet Miller, Amit Goswami, Phd., Dr. Uma Krishnamurti, Dr. Usha Sundernam (Swami Dharmakirti), Mukunda Stiles, Gary Kraftsow, Swami Tatvabodhananda of the Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, and a host of other inspiring speakers that enrich and deepen the IYT approach.

Joseph has been a speaker at major conferences including Yoga Journal, the International Association of Yoga Therapists, the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, the International Association of Yoga and Ayurveda, and has been on the faculty of Kripalu Center since of 1996.

Joseph is married to Lilian Le Page, and together they direct IYT and the Enchanted Mountain Center for Yoga and Well-Being in southern Brazil. Joseph is trilingual, and teaches Yoga classes in Spanish, Portuguese, and English. He authored the Yoga Teacher’s Toolbox which has sold over 12,000 copies, and is currently preparing to publish Mudras for Healing and Transformation. Joseph currently directs the Healthy Heart program at the Enchanted Mountain Center for individuals with hypertension and heart disease. This program is available both in an 8-week format on weekends and a week-long intensive format.

Lilian Le Page has practiced Yoga for 23 years and has been teaching for 18. She graduated from the four-year teacher training program of Swami Vayuananda in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She also completed the three-year Vedanta study course on the Bhagavad Gita from Vidyamandir, associated with Arsha Vidya Gurukulam. Lilian’s gentle style of teaching focuses on pranayama, mudra, bandha, meditation, and deep inner awareness in the Yoga poses.

Since 2003 Lilian has directed and taught a program for depression and anxiety at the Enchanted Mountain Center. This program called “Repainting the Rainbow of Your Life” is offered both in an 8-week format on weekends and also in a week-long intensive format. This program uses the chakras as a model for facilitating opening and transformation through group sharing, art therapy, Yoga postures, mudras, mantra and Yoga Nidra.

Contact IYT
Integrative Yoga Therapy
1161 East Marion Street, Suite 179
Shelby, NC 28150
Office Hours
Monday – Thursday: 8am – 5pm EST
Call from USA
1-800-750-9642

Call from outside USA
1-415-670-9642
http://www.iytyogatherapy.com/

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