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IAYT-sponsored Series on the Future of Yoga Therapy |
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Written by John Weeks
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Friday, 19 January 2007 |
IAYT-Sponsored Series on the Future of Yoga Therapy
Summary: The International Association of Yoga Therapists is examining directions it might take as an organization to advance the use of Yoga by the populations served. As part of the exploration, IAYT asked the Integrator to interview a diverse set of leaders, from other stakeholders and disciplines, on the challenges, the pros and cons of processes such as accreditation, licensing and participation in third-party insurance.
May 19, 2006
The upswelling of popular and institutional interest in Yoga is provoking an exploration among leaders of the International Association of Yoga Therapists
(IAYT) of steps to advance the role of Yoga in health care - without
losing the field's best qualities. The IAYT is sponsoring an IBN&R
series which will explore the possible futures for Yoga therapy through
the lens of the good, the bad and the ugly of the sometimes-felt-as
Faustian bargains which other disciplines have cut in their integration
with the medical industrial complex.
July 9, 2006
 Tino Villani, DC
IBN&R readers believe insurance coverage is key to CAM-IM's
future. Here is a forthright, personal view of a seasoned CAM and
managed care professional on what coverage can mean. The article is
part of an IBN&R series, sponsored by the International Association of Yoga Therapists on the Future of Yoga Therapy.
August 4, 2006
Sat Bir Khalsa, PhD, the moderator of the research panel on Yoga therapy at the North American Research Conference on Complementary and Integrative Medicine,
speaks out of Yoga's "hygiene for the mind" role in US health care and
and the strategic role of research in the process. This article is part
of the Integrator series on the Future of Yoga sponsored by the International Association for Yoga Therapists.
September 7, 2006
Richard Panico, MD, contacted the Integrator in
response to a call for information on Yoga therapy in mainstream health
systems. The interview which followed, about Panico's work in Georgia's
Athens Regional Medical Center, revealed that this southern health
system is quietly including an array of complementary and integrative
approaches, including functional medicine, reaching of 2000 a quarter. This article is partly backed by an Integrator sponsorship from the International Association of Yoga Therapists on the Future of Yoga Therapy.
October 8, 2006
What does taking 3rd party payment change in a clinical practice? What
role does such payment play in the development of a healthcare
profession? Agostino Villani, DC, a long-time chiropractic leader and CEO
of Integrator sponsor Triad Healthcare, provided a wonderfully
frank assessment in an earlier Integrator article. Villani focused on some of the corruptive pressures.
This article looks at views of two insurance-savvy leaders of the
naturopathic medical profession, Kevin Wilson, ND, and Bruce Milliman,
ND, who read Villani's comments and reflected on their own views. These
are their remarks, and Villani's responses. This article is part of a sponsored series on the Future of Yoga Therapy from the International Association of Yoga
Therapists.
October 27, 2006
Certification
and licensing are issues in many emerging and traditional healthcare
professions. Leslie Kaminoff supports high standards but believes that
any third-party intervention in the teacher-patient or
practitioner-patient relationship is harmful. Kaminoff, a long-time
leader in Yoga, argues that not only third party (insurance) payment,
but also licensing and even self-regulation by professions to set fixed
standards creates illusion and false security in consumers. His
logic may have an appeal to many in the broader CAM-IM world.
(Interestingly, Yoga's dialogue on certification was stimulated by the
heart health program of Dean Ornish, MD.) This article is part of an Integrator series
on the Future of Yoga Therapy sponsored through the International
Association of Yoga Therapists (See related articles, below.)
November 14, 2006
This penultimate
article in the Future of Yoga Therapy series examines the program Larry
Payne, PhD offers through Loyola Marymount University extension: a
certificate program that prepares Yoga therapists to work in close
association with medical doctors, chiropractors and other health care
professionals. More of CAM and less of Ayurveda is the way
Payne describes it. Will this training of Yoga practitioners become an
important line in the field's maturation? Is there a loss in this
direction? This Integrator series is sponsored by the International Association of
Yoga Therapists.
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