On today’s episode, Amy chats with Ashley McKeachie. Ashley is a registered yoga instructor, yoga educator, and yoga therapist. She graduated with her Masters Degree in Yoga Studies from Loyola Marymount University.

Ashley spends half her time working as a yoga therapist, where she uses the tools of yoga to help alleviate the symptoms associated with chronic pain, and the other half as part-time faculty at Orange Coast College, leading and facilitating their Yoga Instructor Training Program and teaching about Integrative Health Coaching.

Amy and Ashley talk about the importance of being a part of a positive Sangha, or community, for self-regulation and self-actualization. We often hear the phrase “Yoga is Relationship” by TKV Desikachar. But what does that really mean? How do we achieve it? How can we better our relationships and pay attention to those we care about?  

Have a cup of tea or go for a walk and listen to this inspiring episode with Ashley.

They discuss the following topics:

l Creating a sangha or community that is happy, healthy and supportive of your authentic nature

l Forming lasting relationships and why it is so important to the yogic path

l Figuring out, Who Am I as a young person or a newly self-discovered person

l Feeling valued by your community and how to find a healthy community

l Being lifted up by your community and how it changes your self-perception

l Learning to communicate well to create lasting and healthy relationships

l Holding each other accountable and being firm is an act of love

l Finding self-love is a life-long journey

l Stop looking for outside validation and turn your attention inward to find YOU!

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To checkout Ashley’s offerings.

Visit www.orangecoastcollege.edu and www.ashleymckeachieyoga.com

On today’s episode, Amy chats with Katherine Quayhagen. Katherine is a Registered Yoga Teacher and movement enthusiast. After spending two years in the Peace Corps in a rural village of Madagascar, Katherine realized the necessity of a multi-layered approach to mental, physical, and spiritual well-being. She incorporates mindfulness and meditation into all wellness activities at Longbranch Healthcare, from yoga and fitness classes to gardening. Amy and Katherine discuss the Addiction treatment industry, Working with Longbranch Health care as the Recovery Center Director of Wellness, Types of Addiction and dealing with it and much more. They recently created a research study to look at Veterans who are in a residential treatment center and using yoga therapy to help them heal from the inside-out.

Katherine is a 500-hour Yoga Instructor and is just about to become a C-IAYT through the Optimal State Yoga Therapy for Mental Health Training Program. She has been teaching in the New Orleans since 2013. She specializes in yoga for addiction and recovery, and also received her Bachelor’s in Marketing and Asian Studies from Tulane University.

They discuss the following topics:

l Longbranch Healthcare philosophy for whole person healing and services offered

l Katherine’s role as the Director of Wellness and how she shaped the program

l Process Addiction and how it is different from Primary Substance Addiction services

l The Longbranch lifestyle of connecting with nature, eating well, moving, community

l Katherine’s Peace Corps experience that laid the foundation for her wellness program

l Katherine’s research project and outcomes, future research plans with the VA

l Types of practice’s Katherine offers her clients for addiction recovery

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Today’s podcasts is sponsored by: Optimal State

We have all benefitted from the ancient wisdom of India and her people, so it feels really great to be able to serve in this way. The Optimal State family has pledged on-going support of $250 per month, to go directly to KYM Mitra (www.kym.org). We will collect the monies and gift them each month. Please consider a recurring monthly payment to the fund. Even a small gift or intention makes a difference! If we make more than $250 in any given month, it will roll into the following month’s payment. The hope is that we can contribute for many years to come. If you even lose the link to donate, it is at the top of the homepage at www.amywheeler.com also. I will be reporting on the website the progress; how much money is coming in at any given time and where we are in the process of getting this project off the ground.

Here is the link for you to get started with your donation. We are so happy that you have decided to join us. We thank you for the bottom of our hearts!

Link to click in the description: 

http://Paypal.me/KymMitraDonation

The Optimal State and Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast also has a Patreon page. We now have 5 staff that help us product the audio and video versions of the podcast. Please consider donating to help us keep this good work for the field of yoga therapy going. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yogatherapyhour

The new You Tube Channel for this podcast is: YouTube: AmyWheelerPhd    https://www.youtube.com/c/AmyWheelerphdCheck out Amy's website

Feel free to use download our free eBook and mobile App by going to the websites below.

www.OptimalStateApp.com

www.GoldZoneBook.com

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To checkout Katherine’s offerings: www.longbranchhealthcare.com

Today's guest is Satpreet Kaur. Satpreet Kaur is a registered yoga teacher and is ready to launch her career as a Yoga Therapist with a specialty in Thyroid Health, Movement & Lifestyle Coaching. She is a versatile yoga teacher who loves to incorporate strength and mobility in different ways into her class. Her mission is to inspire others to get physically and mentally strong blending her knowledge of yoga with movement science and biomechanics.

Amy and Satpreet discuss Yoga and Yoga Therapy for Thyroid, her experience with experiencing low thyroid and how Yoga Therapy helped, working daily with hypothyroidism, the importance of having a mentor, and much more.

Make a cup of tea, relax, and enjoy the conversation!

They discuss the following topics:

· Satpreet’s interest in thyroid health started from her personal experience of healing

· Different layers of the human system and how they relate to thyroid health

· Hypothyroidism and lifestyle management

· The importance of community in healing

· What role does mentorship play in healing ourselves?

· Tangible outcomes from sessions and mechanisms for supporting thyroid health

· How to deal with self-doubts and disappointments when life places challenges in front of us

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facebook.com/people/Preet-Yoga/

https://www.instagram.com/preet.yoga/

Today's guest is Matt Erb, Integrative Physical Therapist and Yoga Therapist. Matt has worked extensively with persons experiencing acute and chronic health conditions using an integrative (holistic/whole-person, and mind-body integrated) model of care. He works with all forms of chronic pain, migraines, headache, craniofacial and spinal disorders, dizziness, and vertigo (vestibular conditions), chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia and many more.

Matt and Amy talk about Yoga therapy as an emerging and an established field in healthcare. They speak about “How does Yoga Therapy fit within the healthcare system?” “How can Yoga Therapy not shapeshift and lose the essence of the wisdom tradition?” “How can we put all the separated parts of the human being back into wholeness, so that we are no longer splitting the whole person into different parts?” “What are the upstream factors that carry more influence than individual lifestyle choices on health?” “How do we support a balanced view of agency and causality and support individuals to do their best within the prevailing conditions that they are experiencing?”

They discuss the following:

·        Matt’s work as an Integrative Physical Therapist and Yoga Therapist

·        Matt’s amazing book called “Integrative Rehabilitation Practice”

·        The push and pull between Indigenous Traditions and Evidence Based Medicine

·        Social determinants of health and sociological considerations for the profession

·        How Yoga Therapists can avoid implying excessive or unrealistic sense of moral agency in an individualistic model of self-care

·        Privilege of receiving healing modalities and social connection with support

·        Indigenous communities basic understanding of the important of community in healing

·        Ways in which neoliberalism, capitalism, and colonialism show up in integrative health, including Yoga Therapy

·        The Power-Threat-Meaning Model and similarities to Yoga Philosophy

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To checkout Tracey’s offerings

https://www.traceymeyerspsyd.com

https://www.amazon.com/Yin-Yoga-Therapy-Mental-Health/dp/1848194153?asin=1848194153&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1

To checkout Matt Erb’s offerings:

Association Clinical Director- CMBM.org

EmbodyYourMind.com is Matt’s website

IntegrativeRehabPractice.com for Matt’s new book

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Today's guest is Dr. Tracey Meyers, a licensed clinical psychologist in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York. Dr. Tracey Meyers has 24 years of experience in the fields of clinical psychology and integrative medicine. She is the author of the book: Yin Yoga Therapy and Mental Health and has contributed several book chapters on yoga, addiction, and psychotherapy. Her research focuses on mindfulness and yoga for mental health and traumatic brain injury. In addition to her work as a clinical psychologist, Tracey has a strong commitment to integrative medicine. She is an E-RYT 500-hour yoga teacher, certified yoga therapist, certified MBSR instructor, and certified iRest and Breath-Body-Mind teacher.

Tracey and Amy talk about Tracey’s background and how she got started with Yin Yoga, What Yin Yoga is about, her new book Yin Yoga Therapy and Mental Health, The benefits of Yin Yoga, and a lot more. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the conversation!

They discuss the following:

· The idea of Yin Yoga

· The difference between Yin Yoga and Restorative Yoga

· How Tracey discovered her interest in Yin Yoga

· Yin yoga loads the connective tissue vs. Restorative yoga takes away the load and adds support

· Japanese Dr. Motoyama who connected yin yoga and Chinese medicine through meridian therapy

· How fascia is affected by Yin Yoga

· Physical health benefits of Yin Yoga

· The idea of Self -inquiry

· Mental health and Emotional benefits of Yin Yoga

· How to use yin yoga for PTSD, anxiety reduction, alleviation of depression, traumatic brain injury, and schizophrenia

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Today’s episode is a solo episode with Amy Wheeler. Amy discusses a fundamental question that all C-IAYT Yoga Therapists need to be able to articulate with ease. How are you different than a psychologist who teaches breathing exercises in session? How are you different from a Physical Therapist that helps people heal from injury? How are you different than an Occupational Therapist that helps people live a more sustainable life? Listen to this episode to help you find the words to talk about how we are similar and different from other Allied Healthcare Professions.

Amy talks about the following:

·        Working with clients from the outside inward: the physical body, to the breath, to the mind and possibly towards spiritual growth or connection with their consciousness.

·        The foundation of yoga therapy is the focus on connection with one’s consciousness.

·        In Yoga Therapy we do not diagnose. We look at the qualities of the mind and body of the individual and try to shift those qualities towards more lightness, clarity and ease.

·        Yoga Therapists help people move inward towards connection with deep consciousness through lifestyle medicine.

·        Yoga Therapist help clients figure out a daily routine that will help them to stay in balance and formulate a sustainable life going forward.

·        Yoga Therapists help people become more embodied, which then influences the qualities of both the body and the mind.

·        Yoga Therapy has a framework from Indian Philosophy that helps the client suffer less and experience more joy. It is very akin to Buddhist Counseling.

·        Amy finishes talking about Vasana and Samskara and promises a separate podcast on those topics coming soon!

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• Yoga/Ayurveda Toolbox

• Yoga & Indian Philosophy

• Global & Trending Yoga Therapy Topics

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Today’s podcasts is sponsored by: Optimal State

We have all benefitted from the ancient wisdom of India and her people, so it feels really great to be able to serve in this way. The Optimal State family has pledged on-going support of $250 per month, to go directly to KYM Mitra (www.kym.org). We will collect the monies and gift them each month. Please consider a recurring monthly payment to the fund. Even a small gift or intention makes a difference! If we make more than $250 in any given month, it will roll into the following month’s payment. The hope is that we can contribute for many years to come. If you even lose the link to donate, it is at the top of the homepage at www.amywheeler.com also. I will be reporting on the website the progress; how much money is coming in at any given time and where we are in the process of getting this project off the ground.

Here is the link for you to get started with your donation. We are so happy that you have decided to join us. We thank you for the bottom of our hearts!

Link to click in the description: 

http://Paypal.me/KymMitraDonation

The Optimal State and Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast also has a Patreon page. We now have 5 staff that help us product the audio and video versions of the podcast. Please consider donating to help us keep this good work for the field of yoga therapy going. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yogatherapyhour

The new You Tube Channel for this podcast is: YouTube: AmyWheelerPhd    https://www.youtube.com/c/AmyWheelerphd

Check out Amy's website https://amywheeler.com/

Feel free to use download our free eBook and mobile App by going to the websites below.

www.OptimalStateApp.com

www.GoldZoneBook.com

Facebook: Optimal State by Amy Wheeler     https://www.facebook.com/OptimalStatebyAmyWheeler

Twitter: Optimal State of Living with Dr. Amy

TikTok: Dr. Amy@OptimalStateofLiving

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Today's guest is Mary Tilson, a yoga and meditation teacher, holistic recovery coach and retreat leader, and certified addiction recovery coach. Mary creates world-class retreats that have received top ratings from Yoga Journal and Conde Nast Traveler. She worked for three years as the Yoga & Wellness Director at Nihi Sumba, which was named "Best Hotel in the World" by Travel+Leisure Magazine, and she continues to collaborate with wellness and travel industry leaders such as COMO Hotels, ROAR AFRICA, and others.

Mary and Amy discuss Mary's personal and professional experiences with Yoga Therapy and recovery. Twelve-step Programs for alcoholism and addiction recovery, Self-acceptance and Self-study and more.

Make a cup of tea, relax, and enjoy the conversation!

They discuss the following topics: 

• Mary’s journey and experience with addiction and recovery in her own life
• Why the somatic piece is so important during the recovery process
• Trauma (The relationship between pain and trauma)
• Barriers Mary faced during her recovery journey
• The Sober Curious Movement
• Self-acceptance
• The concept of Surrendering in Yoga Philosophy
• Spirituality in Yoga Therapy
• The idea of Self-study or self-analysis
• Mary’s experience with doubts during her recovery journey

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• Yoga Therapy & Mental Health

• Yoga Therapy & Physical Health

• Social Justice in yoga & Yoga Therapy

• Yoga/Ayurveda Toolbox

• Yoga & Indian Philosophy

• Global & Trending Yoga Therapy Topics

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Today’s podcasts is sponsored by: Optimal State

We have all benefitted from the ancient wisdom of India and her people, so it feels really great to be able to serve in this way. The Optimal State family has pledged on-going support of $250 per month, to go directly to KYM Mitra (www.kym.org). We will collect the monies and gift them each month. Please consider a recurring monthly payment to the fund. Even a small gift or intention makes a difference! If we make more than $250 in any given month, it will roll into the following month’s payment. The hope is that we can contribute for many years to come. If you even lose the link to donate, it is at the top of the homepage at www.amywheeler.com also. I will be reporting on the website the progress; how much money is coming in at any given time and where we are in the process of getting this project off the ground.

Here is the link for you to get started with your donation. We are so happy that you have decided to join us. We thank you for the bottom of our hearts!

Link to click in the description: 

http://Paypal.me/KymMitraDonation

The Optimal State and Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast also has a Patreon page. We now have 5 staff that help us product the audio and video versions of the podcast. Please consider donating to help us keep this good work for the field of yoga therapy going. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yogatherapyhour

The new You Tube Channel for this podcast is: YouTube: AmyWheelerPhd    https://www.youtube.com/c/AmyWheelerphd

Check out Amy's website https://amywheeler.com/

Feel free to use download our free eBook and mobile App by going to the websites below.

www.OptimalStateApp.com

www.GoldZoneBook.com

Facebook: Optimal State by Amy Wheeler     https://www.facebook.com/OptimalStatebyAmyWheeler

Twitter: Optimal State of Living with Dr. Amy

TikTok: Dr. Amy@OptimalStateofLiving

Instagram: Optimal State by Amy Wheeler   

Pinterest: TheOptimalState    https://www.pinterest.com/TheOptimalState

To checkout Mary’s offerings

https://sunandmoonsoberliving.com/

Amy speaks with Dr. Baxter Bell. Since transitioning from a stressful career as a busy family doctor to that of a yoga teacher and medical acupuncturist. He graduated from the Piedmont Yoga Studio's 18-month Advanced Studies Program and spent many years as the Director of PYS's Deep Yoga Program, where he taught Experiential Anatomy, Yoga Technique, and Yoga Methodology. Baxter is a co-founder and former contributing writer for the blog Yoga for Healthy Aging, as well as a member of the faculty at several Yoga Teacher Training and Yoga Therapy Training programs across the country.

Amy and Baxter discuss Yoga for Healthy Aging and a Life Well-Lived, Baxter's career change, his book Yoga for Healthy Aging and how it came to be, and much more.

Here are some highlights of their conversation: 

• Taking the risk of transitioning from family physician to becoming a yoga teacher and therapist and how he has created his “best life.”
• How he turned his blog into a book about healthy aging and yoga
• Curiosity about the future and the 3rd act of life for all of us
• The future of both allopathic medicine and integrative medicine with respect to yoga therapy
• Yoga therapy as a cost-effective method of building well-being
• The importance of Joy to Thrive in the later stages of life
• Moving beyond resilience to Thrivancy in the later stages of life
• Service, Love, and Joy as the three pillars of a life well-lived life 

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• Yoga Therapy & Physical Health

• Social Justice in yoga & Yoga Therapy

• Yoga/Ayurveda Toolbox

• Yoga & Indian Philosophy

• Global & Trending Yoga Therapy Topics

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Today’s podcasts is sponsored by: Optimal State

We have all benefitted from the ancient wisdom of India and her people, so it feels really great to be able to serve in this way. The Optimal State family has pledged on-going support of $250 per month, to go directly to KYM Mitra (www.kym.org). We will collect the monies and gift them each month. Please consider a recurring monthly payment to the fund. Even a small gift or intention makes a difference! If we make more than $250 in any given month, it will roll into the following month’s payment. The hope is that we can contribute for many years to come. If you even lose the link to donate, it is at the top of the homepage at www.amywheeler.com also. I will be reporting on the website the progress; how much money is coming in at any given time and where we are in the process of getting this project off the ground.

Here is the link for you to get started with your donation. We are so happy that you have decided to join us. We thank you for the bottom of our hearts!

Link to click in the description: 

http://Paypal.me/KymMitraDonation

The Optimal State and Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast also has a Patreon page. We now have 5 staff that help us product the audio and video versions of the podcast. Please consider donating to help us keep this good work for the field of yoga therapy going. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yogatherapyhour

The new You Tube Channel for this podcast is: YouTube: AmyWheelerPhd    https://www.youtube.com/c/AmyWheelerphd

Check out Amy's website https://amywheeler.com/

Feel free to use download our free eBook and mobile App by going to the websites below.

www.OptimalStateApp.com

www.GoldZoneBook.com

Facebook: Optimal State by Amy Wheeler     https://www.facebook.com/OptimalStatebyAmyWheeler

Twitter: Optimal State of Living with Dr. Amy

TikTok: Dr. Amy@OptimalStateofLiving

Instagram: Optimal State by Amy Wheeler   

Pinterest: TheOptimalState    https://www.pinterest.com/TheOptimalState

To connect with Baxter’s offerings

https://www.baxterbell.com/

Amy chats with Katie Allen MPH, C-IAYT. Katie is the Founder and School Director of AlcheMe Yoga Therapy, a yoga therapy company that provides professional training, comprehensive clinical programs, research, and community outreach initiatives. She co-founded Be the Change Yoga, a studio and education center. Katie, who directs the Yoga Therapy Program at Hoag Hospital's Center for Healthy Living, is passionate about bringing yoga to underserved communities. She is currently developing a Yoga Promoters Program to train Spanish-speaking students to become yoga teachers in order to spread healthy living practices in various community organizations.

Amy and Katie discuss repositioning and next steps for sustainable business, work-life balance, the concept of Bhavana, Svadyaya, and visualizing a future for your business. Take a seat, relax and enjoy the conversation!

They discuss the following topics: 

• Katie’s experience juggling motherhood and entrepreneurship
• Work-life balance during Covid and into the future
• How Covid affected her business and repositioning to become a non-profit organization after Covid
• How Katie maintains a positive attitude despite the challenges
• Business Partnership ideas and what to watch out for
• The Concept of Bhavana (visualization) and Svadyaya (reflection)
• Visualizing a more sustainable future (energetically and financially)
• Katie’s key to her successful partnership in her business

If you would like to receive the free infographics and handouts that correspond to each episode on the Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast, please subscribe to our segmented email list. You will have the opportunity to determine the Infographic Topics that you would like to receive. When The Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast has a topic that corresponds to your choices, then you will receive an email for that week with the PDF’s for download.

Topics you can choose from include:

• Yoga Therapy & Mental Health

• Yoga Therapy & Physical Health

• Social Justice in yoga & Yoga Therapy

• Yoga/Ayurveda Toolbox

• Yoga & Indian Philosophy

• Global & Trending Yoga Therapy Topics

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Today’s podcasts is sponsored by: Optimal State

We have all benefitted from the ancient wisdom of India and her people, so it feels really great to be able to serve in this way. The Optimal State family has pledged on-going support of $250 per month, to go directly to KYM Mitra (www.kym.org). We will collect the monies and gift them each month. Please consider a recurring monthly payment to the fund. Even a small gift or intention makes a difference! If we make more than $250 in any given month, it will roll into the following month’s payment. The hope is that we can contribute for many years to come. If you even lose the link to donate, it is at the top of the homepage at www.amywheeler.com also. I will be reporting on the website the progress; how much money is coming in at any given time and where we are in the process of getting this project off the ground.

Here is the link for you to get started with your donation. We are so happy that you have decided to join us. We thank you for the bottom of our hearts!

Link to click in the description: 

http://Paypal.me/KymMitraDonation

The Optimal State and Yoga Therapy Hour Podcast also has a Patreon page. We now have 5 staff that help us product the audio and video versions of the podcast. Please consider donating to help us keep this good work for the field of yoga therapy going. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yogatherapyhour

The new You Tube Channel for this podcast is: YouTube: AmyWheelerPhd    https://www.youtube.com/c/AmyWheelerphd

Check out Amy's website: https://amywheeler.com/

Feel free to use download our free eBook and mobile App by going to the websites below.

www.OptimalStateApp.com

www.GoldZoneBook.com

Facebook: Optimal State by Amy Wheeler     https://www.facebook.com/OptimalStatebyAmyWheeler

Twitter: Optimal State of Living with Dr. Amy

TikTok: Dr. Amy@OptimalStateofLiving

Instagram: Optimal State by Amy Wheeler   

Pinterest: TheOptimalState    https://www.pinterest.com/TheOptimalState

To checkout Katie’s offerings

https://www.bethechangeyoga.com/

Instagram @bethechangeyogaoc

Personal IG @katieallenyoga

Amy chats with Dr. Felicity Molloy, Dr. Felicity maintains a professional profile that extends practice and teaching across dance, yoga, bodywork, and Somatics.

Dr. Felicity Molloy is a Senior Level 3 Teacher Yoga Australia/NZ, MNZ Executive Committee for Research, Dip. Remedial Massage, Dance Victorian College of Arts). Fecility is a Lead Tutor of critical thinking and research at Wellpark College of Natural Therapies. She is deeply practiced in community program development, bringing body-based movement, and well-being approaches to a broad range of community participants.

Amy and Dr. Felicity talk about Dr. Fecility’s experience of yoga therapy in New Zealand, How Yoga therapy accreditation works in New Zealand, The current state of yoga therapy in New Zealand, Fascia and tools and technologies used to help tissues respond, Consciousness, and a lot more!

Here are the highlights from their conversation: 

• How Dr. Felicity got started in Yoga therapy while living in New Zealand
• The Current State of Yoga Therapy in New Zealand
• Resistance & Pushback to Yoga Therapy, growing Yoga Therapy in other countries
• Possibility of transferring yoga hours to an IAYT accredited school 
• The idea of Fascia holding consciousness 
• Yoga Nidra, Asana, and Fascia
• Ways to get the Fascia rebalanced
• Dr. Felicity’s opinion on Fascia tools like balls and foam rollers

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Topics you can choose from include:

• Yoga Therapy & Mental Health

• Yoga Therapy & Physical Health

• Social Justice in yoga & Yoga Therapy

• Yoga/Ayurveda Toolbox

• Yoga & Indian Philosophy

• Global & Trending Yoga Therapy Topics

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