Thanks Claudia for your enthusiasm. At grave risk (savasana pun intended) of promoting the non-profit association you listed, http://www.iayt.org membership grants members access to not only this year's program notes and powerpoints, but past sytar's the Digital Resource Library http://iayt.fmdrl.org/ as well as all back issues to their PubMed registered Intl Yoga Therapy Journal...plus there are discussion boards to learn, share and practice from now : )
Also, our editor Dr Kelly McGonigal posted her 30 min talk on Yoga and Mental Health Research You Can Use...which demonstrates your very point about the importance of the therapist's daily practice. See it on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWKVXLOtl6o and our closing keynote by Dr BK Bose stretched all of our imaginations when he started his address with this impressive 8 min clip of his work from the slums of Oakland http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLG2thZ9dpQ&fe...
Thank you and feel free to edit if this is too much etc. Namaste, matt

Thanks for the thoughtful article Claudia. Having just returned from IAYT's 4th Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research http://www.sytar.org . I'm happy to report about 400 attendees reinforced your many points above. I particularly like # 5 re: build a network and #8 about such conferences for building community and skills. As was said many times over the weekend, Yoga is strong medicine...and Yoga is slow medicine. Take our time, come back to our practice and consciousness unfolds. Great lessons you share!
Gratefully,
matt http://www.drofyoga.com

Thanks for the sanity Dan. Safety in Yoga is my mission as I see many yoga related injuries as an expert witness. Thought you and the readers might enjoy the article I wrote earlier this summer for a local health paper in the Phx Valley on making a decision as to whether one should participate in Hot yoga. http://www.matthewjtaylorinstitute.com/hotyoga.pd...

We saw Gary out here in Phx Nitin...quite a guy. It is hard work and that's ok if fueled by passion. Keep going on yours!
matt