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Yoga As Medicine Seminars
Yoga As Medicine (YAM) seminars are hands-on, roll-up-your sleeves workshops, six hours per day, with much of the time spent doing yoga therapy in small groups under Timothy's supervision. Learn to observe bodies, study breathing patterns, analyze doshas, and tailor personalized practices and lifestyle advice.
YAM Seminars are medically and scientifically informed while remaining true to the heart of Yoga and Ayurveda. They use a personalized therapeutic approach based on an in-depth evaluation of five categories, using the acronym SNAPS: Structural, Nervous System, Ayurveda, Psychology and Spirituality. This holistic roadmap allows for a systematic assessment of function on all levels of body, mind and spirit. YAM uses the full palette of yogic tools including asana, pranayama, meditation and philosophy as well as dietary and lifestyle advice.
In response to requests from past YAM attendees, Level 2 YAM seminars are being introduced. Two of these, "Yoga Therapy for the Nervous System," and "The Ayurveda of Yoga Therapy" begin in 2014. YAM Level 2 seminars on structural issues and psychological/spiritual healing are coming in 2015. In order to take a Level 2 seminar you need to have completed YAM Level 1 (up to 2013, simply called Yoga As Medicine). Past attendees have included healers, health care professionals, yoga students and teachers, and those seeking yoga therapy for such conditions as back pain, cancer, arthritis, heart problems, Parkinson's disease, anxiety and depression. "The course helped me to both deepen my understanding of myself, and how I hope to work as a therapist later on. It's been invaluable to me." – Stockholm attendee |
Favorite Articles
Here are a few of my favorite articles, including the first article I wrote for Yoga Journal eleven years ago, and several more recent ones. These articles were published in a variety of sources from Yoga International to the International Journal of Yoga Therapy, as well as a couple published in my email Newsletter. "Is Yogic Levitation Possible?" isn't an article, but I couldn't resist including it.
Western Science vs. Eastern Wisdom
This was the very first, and still my favorite, of my Yoga Journal articles. It describes my first trip to India, and my efforts to reconcile what I'd learned in medical school with what I was experiencing in my yoga practice. This is a slightly different version than the one which appeared in the magazine, correcting a couple of small errors that happened during editing. 
75 Conditions Benefited by Yoga (as Shown in Scientific Studies)
For years I've been publishing a list of health conditions that have been demonstrated in scientific studies to be benefited by yoga. When I last did it a couple of years ago, it was up to 54 conditions, but when I recently compiled research through 2012, I was amazed to see it had increased to 75 conditions. This 16-page PDF includes the references, and for the first time hyperlinks to the abstracts and, where available, the free full-text articles. I publish these lists as a service, so please feel free to share the PDF on Facebook, your web site, or with your doctor! Yoga as a Technology for Life Transformation How the millenia-old practice of yoga creates sustainable positive change. I wrote this article for the Kripalu catalog just before completing my year as a scholar-in-residence at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in 2005. Yoga, Truthiness and the New York Times This article systematically takes apart New York Times writer William Broad's claims that yoga is responsible for hundreds of strokes per year, the emotional linchpin of his yoga-wrecks-your-body arguments. 
The Good Doctor
Yoga International profiled my therapy work and the 5-day Yoga As Medicine seminars I teach around the world. The article includes a sidebar discussion on how I teach students to conduct comprehensive assessments of yoga therapy "patients" in order to plan treatment approaches. Here's a PDF of that article, written by YI's editor Linda Sparrowe. The Language of Healing This article, published in Yoga+, lays out the crucial difference between holism and reductionism. Failing to understand this distinction leads many well-meaning people to embrace sometimes dubious alternative treatments, which I lump into a category I call "alternative reductionism." I hope you'll find it both provocative and full of practical implications for how to keep yourself healthy. 50 Ways to Heal a Yogi This is a version of the article published in Yoga Journal under the name "38 Ways Yoga Keeps You Fit." It's much more complete than the article that appeared in the magazine; it also groups the ways yoga improves health into categories like "Musculoskeletal," "Circulatory" and "Organ Function," which makes it a little more user-friendly. 
Man Bites Downward-Facing Dog
I wrote this in response to William Broad's New York Times article, "Wounded Warrior Pose," and its inflammatory and inaccurate claims about the "remarkable" dangers of yoga. Broad and I have disagreed before, but given the alarmist assertions and flawed science of this article and previous articles, I felt it was time to address the matter directly, and speak up on behalf of yoga and its vast healing powers. Stress, Your Health, and Yoga Yoga isn't only about stress reduction, but it's a big part of how it heals. This article was published on the Yoga for Healthy Aging blog, where I am a contributor. Interview with IJYT In this interview conducted by Kelly McGonigal, PhD, then Editor-in-Chief of The International Journal of Yoga Therapy, I discuss what Western medicine can learn from Yoga and Ayurveda, the risks, challenges, and rewards of conducting research on yoga therapy, etc. Is Yogic Levitation Possible? Only available here! Be sure to click here for the whole story. 
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Teaching Schedule
2014
Symposium and Workshop: Medical
and Modern Yoga Saturday and Sunday, January 11-12, 2014 The Smithsonian Museum of Asian Art, Freer-Sackler Gallery Washington, D.C. (Just approved for CME credit for physicians) Yoga As Medicine, Level 1 Saturday, March 8 - Sunday, March 12, 2014 TriYoga London, England Yoga As Medicine, Level 1 Tuesday, March 18 – Sunday, March 23, 2014 Europeia de Terapias Orientais Lisbon, Portugal Yoga As Medicine, Level 2 The Ayurveda of Yoga Therapy Tuesday, March 25 – Sunday, March 30, 2014 Europeia de Terapias Orientais Lisbon, Portugal Yoga As Medicine, Level 1 Saturday, June 7 – Wednesday, June 11, 2014 WHYoga-PT Milwaukee, WI Yoga As Medicine, Level 1 Saturday, July 12 – Wednesday, July 16, 2014 Happy Turtle Yoga and Wellness Centre Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Yoga As Medicine, Level 2 Yoga Therapy for the Nervous System Saturday, July 19 - Wednesday, July 23, 2014 Happy Turtle Yoga and Wellness Centre Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Yoga As Medicine, Level 1 Saturday, August 2 – Wednesday, August 6, 2014 Yoga Workshop Copenhagen, Denmark Yoga As Medicine, Level 2 Yoga Therapy for the Nervous System Saturday, August 9 – Wednesday, August 13, 2014 Yoga Workshop Copenhagen, Denmark Yoga As Medicine, Level 1 Saturday, August 30 – Wednesday, September 3, 2014 Open Sky Yoga Center Rochester, NY Yoga As Medicine, Level 1 Saturday, September 6 – Wednesday, September 10, 2014 TriYoga Boston, MA Yoga As Medicine, Level 2 The Ayurveda of Yoga Therapy Saturday, September 27 – Wednesday, October 1, 2014 Triyoga Boston, MA Yoga As Medicine, Level 1 Saturday, October 25 – Wednesday, October 29, 2014 Yoga Yoga Austin, TX 2015
Yoga As Medicine, Level 1
Monday, January 5 – Friday, January 9, 2015 Simplyoga Institute Summit, NJ Yoga As Medicine, Level 2 Yoga Therapy for the Nervous System Monday, January 12 – Friday, January 16, 2015 Simplyoga Institute Summit, NJ Yoga As Medicine, Level 1 Friday, March 6 – Friday, March 13, 2015 Yogaville (Satchidananda Ashram) Buckingham, VA Yoga As Medicine, Level 2 Yoga Therapy for the Nervous System Sunday, March 15 – Sunday, March 22, 2015 Yogaville (Satchidananda Ashram) Buckingham, VA |
