Dear IYT Family, 

We have some exciting and important news to share. 

 2016 is an important year in that it marks 20 years since the Integrative Yoga Therapy Program was first offered at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Stockbridge, MA.  These years have been a full and rich experience for the students, with consistently excellent evaluations.

 Our relationship with Kripalu has supported this outstanding experience. Kripalu is unique in that it remains true to its own tradition, upholds the highest of Yoga ethical standards and, at the same time, creates a space of openness in which various Yoga traditions can flourish.

 It is with gratitude and excitement that I write to tell you that effective this month, the Integrative Yoga Therapy training program (300- and 800-hour) will become a formal part of the curriculum of the Kripalu School of Yoga. Kripalu will assume legal ownership and stewardship of the IYT brand, and will support through a license agreement the related IYT business that Lilian and I will continue to hold. I am sharing with you here Kripalu’s announcement, which was released just today: Announcing a New Addition to Kripalu’s Curriculum.

 This integration of IYT as a Kripalu Yoga Program shows the confidence Kripalu leadership has in our signature training, thanks in large part to their observation of our approach to teaching over this extended period. This new relationship also points out Kripalu’s commitment to the development of Yoga Therapy as a whole and the recognition that Yoga Therapy is an essential facet of Yoga education.

To our current students, the news is very good: the training you have taken will be counted by Kripalu, and the IYT curriculum will not change. Joseph and Lilian Le Page will continue to teach in the program for the next 3 years.

This integration with Kripalu will have tremendous benefits for all students of Integrative Yoga therapy: 

• Students will now have the possibility of utilizing some Kripalu programs toward their overall Integrative Yoga Therapy Certification.
• The 800-hour program, which is currently the gold standard for Yoga Therapy, takes on even more relevance with the support of one of America’s leading Yoga Institutions.
• IYT and Kripalu together have the capacity to fulfill the potential that Yoga Therapy has to develop into a recognized profession.
• The integration of IYT within the Kripalu family further deepens and broadens our extensive reach with leaders and leading institutions within the Yoga Therapy field. 

IYT’s collaboration with Kripalu will be further strengthened through the upcoming programs at Kripalu: Yoga Therapy Applied in Medical Settings and Yoga Therapy applications within the Mental Health Field in Mental in which many of the leaders in the field will present including Dr. Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani, one of India’s leading Yoga Therapists. These programs underscore IYT’s commitment to provide the very highest standard of educational excellence in Yoga Therapy, through deepening our connection to leaders in the field from all traditions.

IYT has grown steadily these last decades to become one of the country’s best known Yoga Therapy schools. The Healthy Heart Program has become an integral part of the health system near the Enchanted Mountain Yoga Center in Brazil. Joseph & Lilian’s two-year project to document the work of the major Yoga Therapy institutes in India provides a valuable resource and allows students to connect with the heart and essence of Yoga Therapy. Joseph and Lilian are now in the process of opening a Yoga Therapy and Naturopathy Clinic at Enchanted Mountain.

 Lilian and I look forward to guiding the Integrative Yoga Therapy Training Program into the next step of this on-going journey supporting all beings toward healing.

~Joseph Le Page

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