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1989•IAYT 30 YEARS•2019 1989•IAYT 30 YEARS•2019 1989 IAYT incorporates. Larry Payne, PhD, and Richard Miller, PhD, co-founders. Stephen Ostrow obtained IAYT non-profit satus pro bono. 1989–1995 Larry Payne, founding president and publisher of the Journal 1990–1996 Richard Miller, founding editor of The Journal of the International Association of Yoga Therapists 1991 By this time, IAYT has circulated more than 9,000 brochures and letters to yoga teachers and students, medical doctors and chiropractors, psychologists, and other health professionals in 14 countries. The first Members’ Directory presents 185 names, with ten countries represented. IAYT receives its first publicity with articles in Shape magazine and the Yoga Journal. Joint venture publishing project with Rudra Press and the Nityananda Institute is initiated for the book Yoga for Body, Breath and Mind by Professor A.G. Mohan, edited by Kathleen Miller and published in 1993. Funding is made possible by Claude Cooke, IAYT’s first major donor. First IAYT yoga therapy certification by A.G. Mohan at the Meadowlark Health & Growth Center, founded by Evarts Loomis, MD, founding father of Holistic Medicine in America 1993–1994 The organization actively focuses on a number of areas, including ethics, yoga education, membership, research, and creativity. 1995–1996 Amy Gage, president 1995–1998 Jnani Chapman, RN, executive director 1996 IAYT hosts general membership meeting at the first Yoga Journal conference. Dean Ornish, MD, is the keynote speaker. 1997 IAYT hosts meeting on standards for yoga teachers at the Yoga Journal conference. IAYT grows to 800 members. Meet the people who founded and worked together to build an organization that has become over 5,300 members strong. HIGHLIGHTS ON THE PATH 1996–1998 Lilias Folan, acting president 1997–1998 Steven Kleinmann, MD, editor 1998 A transition year. IAYT dissolves as an independent non- profit corporation and begins operations as a division of Yoga Research and Education (YREC) under the overall leadership of Georg Feuerstein, PhD, YREC’s founder and president. Georg Feuerstein becomes editor in chief of the journal, which is renamed the International Journal of Yoga Therapy. Larry Payne becomes the director of IAYT. 1999–2003 International Journal of Yoga Therapy: Georg Feuerstein, editor in chief; Richard Rosen, senior editor; Trisha Lamb, managing editor 2002–2005 Yoga Studies Online Journal, a newsletter of IAYT/YREC, Trisha Lamb and Richard Rosen, co-editors 2003 John Kepner is named executive director and Trisha Lamb is named associate director. Under the leadership of Kepner and Lamb, and with the enthusiastic support of YREC and all of the original IAYT leadership, the association once again becomes an independent non-profit organization, incorporating in Arizona on July 1, 2004. IAYT has 760 members. 2004–2007 Veronica Zador, president 2004–2005 Trisha Lamb, editor, International Journal of Yoga Therapy 2005 Kelly McGonigal, PhD, named editor of the International Journal of Yoga Therapy. A professional peer-review process for IJYT is instituted. Yoga Therapy in Practice evolves from the Yoga Studies email newsletter to a print publication. Kelly McGonigal, PhD, founding editor. 2007 Janice Gates, president First Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research (SYTAR 2007) held in Los Angeles under the leadership of Veronica and Ivan Zador. 2003 IAYT renewal, L to R, Veronica Zador, Amy Gage, Richard Miller, John Kepner, Larry Payne, and Trisha Lamb. A.G. Mohan Evarts Loomis, MD Claude Cooke 2008 Matthew Taylor PT, PhD, president Second SYTAR held in Los Angeles. IAYT Digital Resources Library launched. IAYT Member Schools launched with 47 charter members. Electronic hosting of IAYT publications begins. IAYT grows to 2,422 members worldwide. 2009 IAYT presents third SYTAR. Dean Ornish, MD, is again a keynote speaker. IAYT hosts the Council of Schools initiative with IAYT Member Schools. Common Interest Communities program is launched at SYTAR. Julie Deife becomes editor of Yoga Therapy in Practice, which is retitled Yoga Therapy Today. Educational Standards committee launched. 2010 Eleanor Criswell, EdD, elected president. IAYT presents the first Symposium on Yoga Research (SYR) under the scientific leadership of Sat Bir Khalsa. IAYT has over 2,600 members. IAYT celebrates 20 years. 2011 IJYT is accepted for indexing on Medline. SYR 2011 is awarded a scientific conference grant by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). Kelly Birch becomes editor of Yoga Therapy Today. 2012 Educational Standards for the Training of Yoga Therapists published. IAYT Accreditation Committee is launched. 2013 Dilip Sarkar elected president of the board. SYR and SYTAR are held back to back for the first time in Boston. This is also the first time SYTAR has been held outside California. 2014 IAYT celebrates its 25th Anniversary! Laura Schmalzl and Sat Bir Khalsa become co-editors of the International Journal of Yoga Therapy. 2014 The first 12 yoga therapy training programs to be accredited by IAYT are announced at SYTAR in Austin, Texas. The first Swami Kuvalyananda Yoga Research Scholarship Awards are announced at SYR at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health. The IAYT Certification Committee is launched. 2016 Applications for IAYT cer- tification of yoga therapists (C-IAYT) opened in May, with over 500 IAYT certi- fied yoga therapists by the end of the year. IAYT Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility and IAYT Scope of Practice are published. 2017 Laurie Hyland Robertson becomes editor of Yoga Therapy Today. First IAYT Yoga Research Summary (on Depression) published in the Spring Yoga Therapy Today. 2018 Amy Wheeler elected president of the board. IAYT launches a comprehensive communica- tion effort to increase the awareness of and demand for yoga therapists, including a new website, yogatherapy.health, for the public and healthcare practitioners seeking qualified yoga therapists. IAYT also launches Approved Professional Development (APD) courses to recognize quality yoga therapy continuing educa- tion that supports the competencies in the standards. 2019 IAYT celebrates its 30th Anniversary! As of mid-April, IAYT has 5,300 individual members, 165 member schools, 43 accredited programs, 3,800 C-IAYTs, 158 APD providers, and 200 APD courses. IAYT starts developing a professional certi- fication exam, the missing link in our standards. Global developments to support yoga therapy are accelerating. IAYT, as the leading international yoga therapy association, works collaboratively with a growing number of sister associations and organizations around the world. Multiple IAYT members attend the World Health Organization meeting in India to benchmark training standards for yoga in healthcare, the Global Yoga Accreditation Summit to explore accreditation of yoga in higher education at the UN, the Global Yoga Therapy Consortium meeting in the Netherlands, and the Asian Yoga Therapy Association’s annual conference in Indonesia. Accreditation Committee Back row, l-r: Dan Seitz, John Kepner, Sue Tebb, Maggie Reagh. Front row, l-r: Aggie Stewart, Robin Rothenberg, Leigh Blashki, Hansa Knox, Danielle Atkinson, Mary Northey Certification Committee Back row, l-r: Dan Seitz, Leigh Blashki, John Kepner. Front row, l-r: Beth Whitney-Teeple, Bev Johnson, Clare Collins, Swami Ramananda, Amy Wheeler.
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1989 IAYT incorporates. Larry Payne, PhD, and Richard Miller, PhD,co-founders. StephenOstrow obtained IAYT non-profit satus pro bono.
1989–1995Larry Payne, founding president and publisher of the Journal
1990–1996Richard Miller, founding editor of The Journal of theInternational Association of Yoga Therapists
1991 By this time, IAYT has circulated more than 9,000 brochuresand letters to yoga teachers and students, medical doctors andchiropractors, psychologists, and other health professionals in14 countries.
The first Members’ Directory presents 185 names, withten countries represented.
IAYT receives its first publicity with articles in Shapemagazine and the Yoga Journal.
Joint venture publishing project withRudra Press and the Nityananda Institute isinitiated for the book Yoga for Body, Breathand Mind by Professor A.G. Mohan, editedby Kathleen Miller and published in 1993.Funding is made possible by Claude Cooke,IAYT’s first major donor. First IAYT yogatherapy certification byA.G. Mohan at theMeadowlark Health &Growth Center, foundedby Evarts Loomis, MD,founding father of HolisticMedicine in America
1993–1994The organization actively focuses on a number of areas,including ethics, yoga education, membership, research, andcreativity.
1995–1996Amy Gage, president
1995–1998Jnani Chapman, RN,executive director
1996IAYT hosts general membership meeting at the first Yoga Journalconference. Dean Ornish, MD,is the keynote speaker.
1997IAYT hosts meeting on standards for yoga teachers at the Yoga Journal conference.IAYT grows to 800 members.
Meet the people who founded and worked together to build an organization that has become over 5,300 members stro n g.
HIGHLIGHTS ON THE PATH1996–1998 Lilias Folan, acting president
1997–1998 Steven Kleinmann, MD, editor
1998A transition year. IAYT dissolves as an independent non-profit corporation and begins operations as a division ofYoga Research and Education (YREC) under the overallleadership of Georg Feuerstein, PhD, YREC’s founder andpresident.
Georg Feuerstein becomes editor in chief of the journal, which is renamed the International Journal of YogaTherapy.
Larry Payne becomes the director of IAYT.
1999–2003International Journal of Yoga Therapy: Georg Feuerstein,editor in chief; Richard Rosen, senior editor; Trisha Lamb,managing editor
2002–2005Yoga Studies Online Journal, a newsletter of IAYT/YREC,Trisha Lamb and Richard Rosen, co-editors
2003John Kepner is named executive director and Trisha Lambis named associate director. Under the leadership ofKepner and Lamb, and with the enthusiastic support ofYREC and all of the original IAYT leadership, the association once again becomes an independent non-profitorganization, incorporating in Arizona on July 1, 2004.IAYT has 760 members.
2004–2007 Veronica Zador, president
2004–2005Trisha Lamb, editor, International Journal of Yoga Therapy
2005Kelly McGonigal, PhD, named editor of the InternationalJournal of Yoga Therapy. A professional peer-review processfor IJYT is instituted.
Yoga Therapy in Practice evolves from the Yoga Studiesemail newsletter to a print publication. Kelly McGonigal,PhD, founding editor.
2007 Janice Gates, presidentFirst Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research
(SYTAR 2007) held in Los Angeles under the leadership of Veronica and Ivan Zador.
2003 IAYT renewal, L to R, Veronica Zador, Amy Gage,
Richard Miller, John Kepner, Larry Payne, and Trisha Lamb.
A.G. Mohan Evarts Loomis, MD
Claude Cooke
2008Matthew Taylor PT, PhD, president
Second SYTAR held in Los Angeles. IAYT Digital Resources Library launched. IAYT Member Schools launched with 47
charter members.Electronic hosting of IAYT publications
begins. IAYT grows to 2,422 members worldwide.
2009 IAYT presents third SYTAR.Dean Ornish, MD, is again a keynote speaker.
IAYT hosts the Council of Schoolsinitiative with IAYT Member Schools.
Common Interest Communities program islaunched at SYTAR.
Julie Deife becomes editor of Yoga Therapy in Practice, which is retitled Yoga Therapy Today.
Educational Standards committee launched.
2010 Eleanor Criswell, EdD, elected president.IAYT presents the first Symposium on Yoga
Research (SYR) under the scientific leadership of Sat Bir Khalsa.
IAYT has over 2,600 members.IAYT celebrates 20 years.
2011IJYT is accepted for indexing on Medline. SYR 2011 is awarded a scientific conferencegrant by the National Center for Complementaryand Alternative Medicine (NCCAM).
Kelly Birch becomes editor of Yoga TherapyToday.
2012Educational Standards for the Training of Yoga Therapists published.
IAYT Accreditation Committee is launched.
2013 Dilip Sarkar elected president of theboard.
SYR and SYTAR are held back to back forthe first time in Boston. This is also the first timeSYTAR has been held outside California.
2014 IAYT celebrates its 25th Anniversary! Laura Schmalzl and Sat Bir Khalsa become
co-editors of the International Journal of YogaTherapy.
2014The first 12 yoga therapy training programs to be accredited byIAYT are announced at SYTAR in Austin, Texas.
The first Swami Kuvalyananda Yoga ResearchScholarship Awards are announced at SYR at theKripalu Center for Yoga & Health.
The IAYT Certification Committee is launched.
2016Applications for IAYT cer-tification of yoga therapists(C-IAYT) opened in May,with over 500 IAYT certi-fied yoga therapists by theend of the year.
IAYT Code of Ethics and ProfessionalResponsibility and IAYT Scope of Practice are published.
2017Laurie Hyland Robertson becomes editor of YogaTherapy Today.
First IAYT Yoga Research Summary (on Depression) publishedin the Spring Yoga Therapy Today.
2018 Amy Wheeler elected president of the board.IAYT launches a comprehensive communica-
tion effort to increase the awareness of and demandfor yoga therapists, including a new website,yogatherapy.health, for the public and healthcarepractitioners seeking qualified yoga therapists.
IAYT also launches Approved Professional Development(APD) courses to recognize quality yoga therapy continuing educa-tion that supports the competencies in the standards.
2019 IAYT celebrates its 30th Anniversary!As of mid-April, IAYT has 5,300 individual
members, 165 member schools, 43 accreditedprograms, 3,800 C-IAYTs, 158 APD providers,and 200 APD courses.
IAYT starts developing a professional certi-fication exam, the missing link in our standards.
Global developments to support yoga therapy are accelerating.IAYT, as the leading international yoga therapy association, workscollaboratively with a growing number of sister associations andorganizations around the world. Multiple IAYT members attend theWorld Health Organization meeting in India to benchmark trainingstandards for yoga in healthcare, the Global Yoga AccreditationSummit to explore accreditation of yoga in higher education at theUN, the Global Yoga Therapy Consortium meeting in theNetherlands, and the Asian Yoga Therapy Association’s annualconference in Indonesia.
Accreditation CommitteeBack row, l-r: Dan Seitz, John Kepner, Sue Tebb,Maggie Reagh. Front row, l-r: Aggie Stewart,Robin Rothenberg, LeighBlashki, Hansa Knox, DanielleAtkinson, Mary Northey
CertificationCommitteeBack row, l-r: Dan Seitz, LeighBlashki, JohnKepner. Frontrow, l-r: BethWhitney-Teeple,Bev Johnson,Clare Collins,SwamiRamananda, Amy Wheeler.
