Celebrating IAYT’s 25th Anniversary 
SYTAR is dedicated entirely to professional education, research, practice, and policy issues for yoga therapy. SYTAR 2014 will be held at the Austin Renaissance Hotel located in the picturesque Austin Arboretum area in the Texas Hill Country.
Keynote and Plenary Sessions
All attendees gather for these powerful keynote and invited speaker
presentations.
Practice Sessions: Competencies in Actions
Twenty afternoon theory and practice sessioins supporting the competencies in IAYT's Educational Standards for the Training of Yoga Therapists in intriguing and practical ways.
Common Interest Community Sessions
June 5, 1:30-5:00 pm
- Call for CIC Presentations
- Fifteen-minute talks modeled on “Ted Talks” at the start of the conference that will get people talking
- Watch for the Call for CIC Presentations in January
- Rehab Professionals: Bridging the Past with the Future. Chrys Kub PT, RYT, FitYogaTherapy and Staffan Elgelid, PT, GCFT, PhD, Nazareth College
- Mental, Emotional and Spiritual Health -I Amy Weintraub, ERYT-500, MFA, LFYP, LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute
and Susan Steiger Tebb, PhD, LSW, RYT, School of Social Work Saint Louis University
- Mental, Emotional and Spiritual Health - II Ellen Fein LCSW, CYT, and Clare Collins, RN, PhD, American Viniyoga Institute
Thursday Afternoon Workshops
June 5, 1:30 -5:00 pm
Ayurveda 101 for Yoga Therapists
Creating a YRx Practice Presence in Your Community
New! Post SYTAR All Day Monday Workshops
June 9, 9-12, and 1-4:30 pm
Clinical Yoga and Heart Health
Yoga Survivorship: Strategies in Cancer Treatment
and Post Treatments
Healing Relationships- an Essential Workshop for
Healing with Intuitive Wisdom. Knowledge Creates
Therapists, Intuition Creates Healers.
The Yoga Therapy of iRest Yoga Nidra
Morning Practices
Taught by SYTAR faculty
Shared Meals
Developing community is an important part of SYTAR. To that end, several meals and get-togethers are provided, including a reception on Thursday night and a banquet on Saturday night.
Free Time
Plenty of time is built into the program for informal meetings with old and new friends and getting to know our sponsors and exhibitors.
Meeting of Schools
The Meeting of Schools is not part of the conference program per se. It is open only to program directors and faculty of IAYT Member Schools. June 4, 2:30-3:45, 4- 5:30, 7-9 pm and June 5, 9-12, pm. Led by the IAYT Accreditation Committee.
- 2:30-3:45 Pre-meeting for Prospective AC Members
- 4:00 Meeting of Schools
- Understanding the accreditation process
- Understanding assessments
- Looking to the future
- Must be logged in as an IAYT member school to register.
New! Individual Guidance Sessions on Accreditation
There are a limited number of sessions available on Sunday, after the close of the conference. Registrants may have one-on-one sessions with members of the Accreditation Committee.
- 2-5 pm
- Must be logged in as an IAYT member school to register
Keynote Speakers:
Lorenzo Cohen, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Judith Hanson Lasater, PT, PhD,
Michael Lerner, PhD, Commonweal
Special Guests
Jnani Chapman, First Executive Director of IAYT
Larry Payne PhD, Co-founder of IAYT
Richard Miller, PhD, Co-founder of IAYT
Invited Speakers
Susi Amendola, Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery
Nischal Joy Devi, Abundant WellBeing
Janice Gates, Somatic Yoga Therapy Programs
Larry Payne, PhD,
Yoga Therapy Rx certification program at Loyola Marymount University
Gary Kraftsow, MA, E-RYT 500, American Viniyoga Institute
Lee Majewski, Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute
Vasant Lad, BAMS, MaSC, The Ayurvedic Institute
