Materials to promote health and wellness at all dimensions of being through Yoga. Welcome to the future of Yoga!
As approaches to health continue to evolve, Yoga will be a primary vehicle for the wellness programs of the future because of its ability to promote health and healing at physical, emotional, and spiritual levels simultaneously. Yoga is already being accepted into mainstream wellness approaches at hospitals, businesses, schools and universities, summer camps for children, drug and alcohol rehabili
tation centers, and a variety of other settings. Offering one-on-one Yoga therapy sessions also offers a variety of career opportunities. All of these career avenues require specific training beyond the Yoga teacher level. Integrative Yoga Therapy (IYT) is a vehicle for bringing this new vision of wellness into your life and into your career. Come join us in expanding our vision into the world. Yoga is taking on a wider role in modern life; an expansion beyond the Yoga classroom into all areas of our community as a vehicle for wellness, healing and personal transformation. Integrative Yoga Therapy is a pioneer and leader for over 15 years in training Yoga professionals who can bring the ancient insights of Yoga into mainstream wellness programs. Our programs are based on a vision of health as a unity of body, mind and spirit. Yoga is a vehicle for deepening this experience of Unity and bringing it into the world as a resource for personal growth, healing and awakening. Our experiential approach to learning allows students to integrate in-depth information through a creative process resulting in a unique experience. We support IAYT's educational standards for yoga therapy and intend to apply for IAYT accreditation following implementation of the new process. IYT training programs give students the skills, insights and practice to bring Yoga into mainstream life in ways that are inspiring, enjoyable, safe and easily accessible. Visit http://iytyogatherapy.com/training.php to learn more about our trainings!
10/24/2025
When we look at the body with reverence, it ceases to be a limitation and reveals itself as a path.
Yoga reminds us that every sensation is a form of listening — the body speaks where energy flows and where it asks for attention.
By moving, breathing, and being present, we transform the ordinary into spiritual practice.
The body then becomes a temple of consciousness — a place where the sacred manifests in every gesture, every heartbeat, every breath.
10/20/2025
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The Pranamaya Kosha, the energy body, is the subtle sheath that gives vitality to the physical body and links our breath to the force of life itself. Formed by prana—the vital energy that pervades all existence—it sustains movement, emotions, and inner processes, serving as a bridge between the visible world and the subtler dimensions of being.
In Integrative Yoga, we recognize that energetic balance is essential for holistic health. Through conscious breathing, the practice of pranayama, and the attunement to the natural flow of life, we cultivate harmony in body, mind, and spirit. Prana moves through subtle channels (nadis), nourishing every part of our being and keeping the current of life in continuous balanced movement.
In cultivating our vital energy, we strengthen the link between the physical and the spiritual, awakening to the truth that each breath is an opportunity for renewal and presence.
To keep the Pranamaya Kosha in balance, it is essential to embrace practices that strengthen and purify vital energy:
🧘🏼♂️ Conscious breathing — Bringing mindful awareness to the breath, expanding vitality with each inhalation and releasing tension with each exhalation.
🧘🏼♂️ Pranayama — Breathing practices that regulate, purify, and direct the flow of energy, such as Nadi Shodhana (alternate nostril breathing) and Kapalabhati (cleansing breath).
🧘🏼♂️ Connection with nature — Immersing ourselves in natural environments, absorbing vital energy from the sun, pure air, and the earth.
🧘🏼♂️ Conscious movement — Integrating breath with movement through Yoga, walking, or practices that awaken the flow of energy.
Through these practices, we strengthen the Pranamaya Kosha and awaken the awareness that we are energy in continuous flow, connecting us with the rhythm of life and the essence of our Being.
10/13/2025
Welcome to Asana Insight!
Today Joseph Le Page practices a combination of Pranayama, mudra and asana for the Women’s Health and Healing!
Namaste!
10/08/2025
Grounding for the Yoga therapist is not limited to the physical body, but becomes a way of being that permeates every level of our existence. It begins with the body, where steadiness and strength provide the confidence to offer support in each posture. It extends into the psycho-emotional dimension, where the ongoing practice of centering allows us to welcome the challenges of those in our care with safety, clarity, and compassion. Beyond this, grounding reaches into the wisdom body, where discernment and insight guide our choices, and into the spiritual body, where we rest in the deeper awareness that stability is not only physical, but a reflection of our essential connection with the whole of life.
To cultivate grounding is to become a steady presence, a living reminder that stability and trust are possible, and that every breath can root us more deeply in the wholeness of our being.
10/02/2025
Daily living is not a problem, it is actually our path to greater awareness and self-knowledge. The greater the obstacle, the greater the opportunity. It is just a question of using the opportunity wisely.
Each breath reminds us that life is not something to be avoided, but to be fully lived, with presence, discernment and surrender.
Yoga invites us to be here — not fleeing from life's lessons, but embracing them as our teacher, where every experience becomes an opportunity to awaken.
09/25/2025
Sutra 1.15, presents non-attachment, vairāgya, as the absence of “thirst” for the objects of experience, both seen, dṛṣṭā, and only heard of, anuśravika. That which can be seen includes all the sense objects including people, places and things. Objects that are heard of include notions of enlightenment, spiritual powers, celestial realms and an afterlife.
In the ultimate sense, the motivation for non-attachment arises from the recognition that our true Being, puruṣa, is inherently whole and complete, providing absolute joy and meaning so that we don’t require anything from our surroundings. The movement toward non-attachment is a gradual process of cultivating the essential qualities of our inner Being including wholeness, inner silence, inner peace and equanimity.
These qualities arise in meditation, especially in samadhi, in which we experience our true Being directly. This experience of completeness gradually infuses our entire being and all of our activities so that vairāgya becomes a natural expression of our way of seeing.
09/23/2025
The cycles of nature reflect our own internal cycles, and the Autumn Equinox, which marks the balance between day and night, invites us to look within and cultivate the same balance in our life and practice.
By aligning our practice with the seasons, we reconnect with the wisdom of nature and cultivate a more conscious and harmonious path. 🍂✨
Do you feel this change in energy with the arrival of autumn? How do you plan to integrate this into your practice?
09/18/2025
Purse the lips into a beak with the tongue relaxed down onto the floor of the mouth. Inhale through the beak drawing the breath all the way to the back of the throat.
Pause slightly.
Close the mouth and relax the tongue and then exhale through both nostrils.
Again, pause slightly.
Continue for several cycles.
Especially helpful for:
✨ Soothes and cools the entire body.
✨ Massages and nourishes the heart and pericardium.
✨ Releases tension from the face, jaw and the senses on the exhalation.
✨ Brings circulation to the thyroid gland, supporting the entire endocrine system.
✨ Balances the immune system.
✨ Opens the heart chakra.
Pranayama for Healing and Transformation, by Joseph Le Page and Karin Silberbeg, coming soon!
09/16/2025
“All the facets of my being are integrated as a seamless unity.”
Hakini is the goddess associated with the third eye, the center of inner wisdom, and Hakini mudra supports the unfolding of wisdom within all the dimensions of our being. This gesture facilitates Full Yogic Breathing, which naturally supports the integration of all areas of the body, enhancing our sense of embodiment.
Hakini mudra opens both nostrils evenly, bringing equilibrium to the right and left sides of the body, as well as the active and receptive, masculine and feminine aspects of our being, naturally instilling a sense of integration and harmony.
Book Mudras for Healing and Transformation, available on IYT online store!
09/11/2025
“Aligned in serenity I journey with greater equanimity.”
✨ Core Quality: Aligned Serenity
✨ Doshas - Benefits & Adjustments
Pitta - benefits from the calming aspect of the pose.
Kapha - benefits from the presence of Air and Space which counteracts Kapha's Earth and
Water content.
Vata - use modifications at the wall with a focus on support.
Source: Yoga Toolbox
09/09/2025
In the ancient texts of Hatha Yoga, which include instruction in asana and pranayama, the most important element of study is the understanding and experience of the body of subtle energy. This body is made up of energy centers (chakras), energy channels (nadis), and energy currents (prana vayus).
It is through the knowledge of this subtle body that Yoga postures and other practices are performed with ease and fluidity. This experiential understanding of the subtle body is also key in optimizing the health benefits of Yoga, including physical and psychological flexibility, equanimity and optimal functioning of all the physiological systems. The subtle body also serves as a bridge to our spiritual Being through understanding the intelligence and energy at the heart of creation.
The sciences of pranayama, mudra and bandha allow us to awaken and channel the energies of the subtle body and are therefore essential for receiving all of Yoga’s benefits. In this course, we will gain an in-depth understanding of pranayama, mudra and bandha, as well as pranic healing techniques, all of which serve to create a deep awakening of the subtle body, harmony in our physical being, psycho-emotional equanimity and an unfolding of the full potential of spirituality.
The science of pranayama encompasses the traditional breathing practices that awaken the subtle body, optimize our physiology, balance the mind and emotions and serve as a doorway to our spiritual Being. This course presents 30 pranayamas along with their variations and therapeutic applications, allowing the teacher to instruct pranayama in therapeutic settings, within yoga classes, and to offer pranayama workshops at the beginning and intermediate levels. The pranayama material is supported by the soon to be released book, Pranayama for Healing and Transformation, by Joseph Le Page and Karin Silberberg.
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Integrative Yoga was founded by Joseph Le Page in 1993 with the intention to promote health and wellness at all dimensions of being through Yoga. The focus of Integrative Yoga is to create Yoga materials and methodologies that present this ancient science in a way that is clear and accessible so that the student experiences Yoga directly, rather than theoretically.
These materials and methodologies are oriented toward student-centered learning so that each individual is able to access the material in a way that is appropriate and optimal for their needs. This allows for the cultivation of health and healing in all dimensions of being - physical, energetic, psycho-emotional and spiritual. This allows students to deepen the journey of self-knowledge, which naturally contributes to the optimization of physical health and also a greater alignment with the true Self.
Integrative Yoga is based at the Enchanted Mountain Yoga Center in Garopaba, Santa Catarina (Brazil), one of the largest Yoga retreat centers in South America.
METHODOLOGY
Through this methodology, students are able to naturally integrate the philosophical content into their daily lives, expanding their understanding of Yoga beyond the classroom, thereby dissolving limiting and restrictive patterns of behavior and belief at the level of body, mind and spirit.
Within Integrative Yoga, the fundamental concepts and methodologies of Yoga are presented in profound, and at the same time humorous and participatory ways. The natural environment of Enchanted Mountain Yoga Center, set in the rainforest and near to the sea, creates an ideal setting for optimizing the health of the body, balancing the mind, and the unfolding of our true Being through methods and techniques that embody the tradition of Yoga in a way that allows us to apply these truths in daily living.
