Yoga Therapy Rx Instructors
Instructors
Larry Payne, Ph.D., E-RYT500 is co-founder and director of the Yoga Therapy Rx™ program. He is co-author of Yoga Rx with Richard Usatine, M.D., and Yoga for Dummies with Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D.. He previously introduced Yoga to the curriculum at the UCLA School of Medicine, and was founding president of the International Association of Yoga Therapists.
Rick Morris, D.C. is associate director of the Yoga Therapy Rx Level I program and a sports medicine chiropractor with more than 25 years experience and team doctor for the US Olympic Medical Team, The NBA, and UCLA Track and Field. He is also a senior instructor at the Cleveland Chiropractic College in Los
Angeles.
Christopher Chapple, Ph.D., co-founder of the Yoga Therapy Rx program at Loyola Marymount University, is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology at Loyola Marymount University. He has authored and edited 12 books on religious traditions of India, including a co-translation of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras.
Richard Usatine, M.D. is associate director of the Yoga Therapy Rx Level II program and the Vice-Chair for Education in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is also the recipient of the National Humanism in Medicine Award and since 2000, has been chosen by his peers each year to be included in the Best Doctors in America list, a national consumer reference source published by Ohio State University.
Kathryn Gil, M.D. is a Brown University medical school graduate, trained in residency at UCLA with more than 20 years experience in allopathic and traditional osteopathic medicine. She is also a clinical professor at The Western University of Health Sciences.
David Allen, M.D. is a graduate of UCLA Medical School and also holds a masters degree from the College of Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture, Oxford, England. He is the medical director of the Longevity Center, one of Los Angeles’s most prestigious integrative medicine centers.
Art Brownstein, M.D., D.Y.Ed. is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii and a staff primary care physician at the Kauai Medical Clinic, Wilcox Hospital. He is the author of Healing Back Pain Naturally (Harbor Press), and Extraordinary Healing (Harbor Press). He is the only U.S. physician to be certified in Yoga by the Government of India, Ministry of Health and Education.
Shri K. Mishra, M.D. is trained in Yoga, Ayurveda and modern medicine. He is professor of Neurology, and coordinator of the integrative medicine program at the Keck School of Medicine, USC. His goals are to develop evidence-based, cost-effective quality clinical care, education and research in Yoga and Ayurveda.
Jamie Shaw, M.P.T. is a registered physical therapist with a master’s degree in physical therapy, and a certified Kripalu Yoga teacher. She served as director of the Spine Team at Abilities Health and Rehabilitation Center in New York City and currently directs the Yoga Home Services in Westlake Village. She is also a popular keynote speaker.
Richard C. Miller, Ph.D. is a leader in the field of yoga and meditation, honored by Yoga Journal and featured in American Yoga (Barnes & Noble.) He is co-founder of The International Association of Yoga Therapists and was founding editor of its professional journal, The International Journal of Yoga Therapy. He has also authored numerous articles on Yoga, nondualism and psychotherapy.
Leslie Kaminoff is the director of The Breathing Project in New York City, and a senior student of Yoga master T.K.V. Desikachar. He is one of America’s most knowledgeable instructors on anatomy for Yoga Teachers. He is also the founder of the international, online Yoga discussion group, “E-Sutra”, and his new book Yoga Anatomy (Human Kinetics) is scheduled for release in the fall of 2006.
Chase Bossart is a 14 year student of TKV Desikachar including 3 years of residential internship in Chennai. He is co-founder of the Yoga Health Alliance and currently finishing a Masters degree in Religious Studies at The University of California, Santa Barbara.
Kathy Demac, C.Y.T., is a certified Yoga therapist since 1996. She studied in India with T.K.V. Desikachar and his son Kausthub Desikachar. She also holds certifications in Pilates and Gyrotonic Movement. Her passion is teaching anatomy and breath work. She is the Director and owner of Health In Motion, Inc. in Agoura Hills, California and teaches at UCLA Medical School.
Robert Birnberg, C.Y.T., studies with Kausthub Desikachar internationally and has traveled numerous times to the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM) in Southern India. Robert trains Yoga therapists, conducts seminars and specializes in relationship guidance and addictive /compulsive disorders.
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