Integrative Yoga Therapy

Integrative Yoga Therapy 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!

Every breath can be a new beginning.Every moment of silence can become a space of support. Yellow September invites us t...
09/04/2025

Every breath can be a new beginning.

Every moment of silence can become a space of support. Yellow September invites us to look inward and also reach out — extend a hand, listen, offer presence. Caring for life is a practice of love and integration.

Caring is Yoga!

Believe this: being you is already enough.Yoga does not demand performance. It offers a hug to let you know you are care...
08/29/2025

Believe this: being you is already enough.

Yoga does not demand performance. It offers a hug to let you know you are cared for.
It keeps reminding you that you can slow down because there is really nowhere to go and that within spirituality there is always a safe place for true rest.

Anxiety is not a mistake. It is our body’s own wisdom reaching out for safety in a world that has forgotten how to pause...
08/26/2025

Anxiety is not a mistake. It is our body’s own wisdom reaching out for safety in a world that has forgotten how to pause. Anxiety arises when we let the mind take us into its fears and insecurities instead of taking the time to experience the body and the mind as they are in the here and now.

Yoga does not judge anxiety as something you should get rid off. It welcomes it along with your entire being together with a simple, profound invitation: breathe. Feel your feet on the ground. Listen to what lives within you without rushing to fix it.

In practicing Yoga with presence, we do not seek to silence anxiety as if shutting off an alarm. Instead, we learn to hear what it longs to tell us. Perhaps it is a plea for more rest. For more truth. For less demand. And as we breathe with it, rather than against it, we create an inner space where emotions are not enemies, but messengers.

Anxiety then transforms — from an invisible monster into a tender part of ourselves that simply needs to be seen with compassion and understanding. And in this gentle seeing, healing begins.

Spirituality is not some far-off place, nor a state reserved for those with some special knowledge reserved only for the...
08/22/2025

Spirituality is not some far-off place, nor a state reserved for those with some special knowledge reserved only for the very few.

It begins in the body you inhabit right now — in your fatigue, in your food, in your sleep.
It begins the moment you give yourself permission to pause and gently ask: How am I truly feeling?

Yoga teaches us there is no separation between body and soul, matter and spirit.
When you nourish yourself with presence, breathe with intention, or rest with surrender, you are practicing spirituality in its most essential form: being whole within yourself.

We live in a culture that praises effort but forgets to listen — that seeks transcendence yet ignores the body’s quiet signals.
Yoga invites us to do the opposite: to descend. To root. To feel.
For the sacred is not only on mountaintops or in silent retreats. It is also in your lingering shower, in the stretch that eases your tension, in the restful sleep that rekindles your inner light in the moment you see you've done something stupid and discover there is another way to do it with self-love and self-acceptance.

Spirituality is presence.
And presence is built through small acts of care, offered with love and without haste.

The Yoga journey can be seen as two wings of a bird. The first wing is practice, effort and dedication called abhyasa. T...
08/15/2025

The Yoga journey can be seen as two wings of a bird. The first wing is practice, effort and dedication called abhyasa. The second is dispassion, non-attachment, letting go, called vairagya.

Abhyāsa has two main facets. The first is daily practice, sadhana, whose root “sad” means effort. Sadhana is the consistent energy we invest in our daily practice with the understanding a practice or group of practices are maintained with enthusiasm and discipline until we experience their full benefit.

The second facet of abhyasa is conscious witnessing in daily living where we make a consistent effort to observe the movements of the mind while neither expressing, repressing or identifying with them, thereby gradually reducing their influence and their ability to generate limitation and suffering.

While practice is a foundation of the spiritual journey, it must be balanced with dispassion, vairāgyam. To gain material success at the level of the personality, effort and repetition are usually sufficient. At the level of the conditioned personality, that which we seek is outside of us in our surroundings, and the more effort we invest, the more likely we are to succeed. In the spiritual realm, however, that which we seek is our own true Being, already present and waiting to be recognized clearly. What stands between us and this recognition is attachment to all the things in our surroundings that we believe will make us happy and complete. Vairāgyam is seeing and releasing the mistaken belief that relationships, material possessions, personal power and self-image can provide the happiness and peace we seek.

Therefore, practice and dispassion are the two wings of the bird of Yoga that allow us to fly toward freedom.

“Rooted to the earth beneath, reach upward with a clear aspiration for spiritual unfolding.”✨ Core Quality: Essencial: S...
08/13/2025

“Rooted to the earth beneath, reach upward with a clear aspiration for spiritual unfolding.”

✨ Core Quality: Essencial: Spiritual Unfolding

✨ Doshas - Benefits & Adjustments
Vata - benefits from connection to the earth and enhanced balance.
Pitta - benefits from the sense of reverence cultivated in the variation with the hands in front of the heart.
Kapha - benefits from the uplifting energy

Source: Yoga Toolbox

08/13/2025

This retreat offers you a full week of healing with Ayurvedic treatments, Yoga classes with a focus on healing all facets of your being, nourishing and delicious vegetarian and/or vegan meals and walks along some of the world’s most beautiful coastline.

The site for your retreat is Enchanted Mountain Center, one of the largest Yoga retreat centers in South America.

The accommodations are comfortable and there is a natural pool fed by a freshwater spring on the premises.

The center has its own Ayurvedic spa offering a complete range of ayurvedic massage and other treatments.

Enchanted Mountain is located on one-hundred acres of tropical rainforest with over two hundred varieties of birds including toucans and the beautifully colored surucuá.

More info at our website iytyogatherapy.com

08/08/2025

May these words serve as an invitation into deep silence, into a meeting with yourself and with the sacred dimension of life. May each guided breath be a seed of presence, and may this moment open space for listening, healing, and reconnection with that within us which has never been lost.

07/31/2025

Yoga is a path of transformation in all dimensions of being. The Yoga Toolbox Card Deck uses the Five Koshas as a map to navigate these different dimensions.

The Yoga Toolbox Card Deck allows you to access the essential information about the main Yoga postures quickly and easily and are especially useful for deepening your knowledge of the asanas, as well as designing posture sequences.

Each card contains:

• Color coding to easily reference the category to which the pose belongs

• The name of the pose in English and Sanskrit and a literal translation of each part of the Sanskrit name

• The core quality and affirmation for each pose

• An illustration of the pose in 3D with symbols showing the chakras and the prana vayus

• Body systems, elements, chakras, prana vayus and doshas influenced by the pose

• The key benefits of the pose

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Annamaya Kosha, the physical body, is the foundation on which all other facets of the self rest. It is through this body...
07/24/2025

Annamaya Kosha, the physical body, is the foundation on which all other facets of the self rest. It is through this body—made of food and sustained by the elements of nature—that we experience the world and begin the journey of self-knowledge.

In Integrative Yoga, we honor the body as a sacred temple, recognizing that physical health and balance are fundamental for overall well-being. Practices such as asana, postural alignment, and bodily awareness allow us to fully inhabit our bodies, developing strength, flexibility, and vitality.

By caring for the Annamaya Kosha, we lay the groundwork for exploring the subtler layers of our being, such as Pranamaya Kosha (energy body) and Manomaya Kosha (psycho-emotional body). This integration leads us toward a more conscious life, where body, mind, and spirit are aligned in harmony.

Thus, by honoring and caring for our physical body, we open the door to a journey of transformation and wholeness, where every movement and every breath connects us to the essence of our being.

When this layer is healthy, the others—energetic, mental, intellectual, and spiritual—can fully blossom.

To keep Annamaya Kosha in balance, it is essential to adopt practices that promote physical health and well-being:
🧘🏼‍♂️ Mindful nutrition: Choose fresh, natural, and nutritious foods, preferably plant-based, that sustain the body and promote mental clarity.
🧘🏼‍♂️ Regular asana practice: Practice yoga postures that strengthen, stretch, and balance the body, cultivating greater bodily awareness.
🧘🏼‍♂️ Adequate rest: Ensure periods of restorative sleep and moments of relaxation, giving the body time to recover and regenerate.
🧘🏼‍♂️ Self-care: Incorporate practices such as massage, relaxing baths, and moments of leisure that nourish both body and mind.

By integrating these practices into daily life, we strengthen Annamaya Kosha, creating a solid foundation for the development of the subtler layers of being. In this way, the physical body becomes not only a vehicle for experience, but a sacred temple that houses and supports our inner journey.

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07/22/2025

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With time, we come to recognize that each practice is an opportunity to plant intentions that blossom into the positive ...
05/22/2025

With time, we come to recognize that each practice is an opportunity to plant intentions that blossom into the positive qualities of transformation.

Sankalpa, is a deep and conscious intention; it is the seed we plant in the fertile soil of our awareness, nourished by practice and presence.

When we formulate a Sankalpa, we are not simply wishing for change; we are affirming a truth that already lives within us waiting to be seen clearly and unfold positively. It is a positive statement, expressed in the present tense, that aligns our personal intention with universal wisdom.

The practice of Sankalpa invites us to live with purpose, guiding our actions and thoughts toward the realization of our highest potential.

Integrating Sankalpa into our practice—especially during Yoga Nidra—allows us to access deep states of receptivity, where this intention can take root and flourish. Sankalpa can also be used at the beginning of every Asana practice so that each practice is directed toward a specific intention.

Within Yoga Nidra, the stillness created is the ideal space in which Sankalpa becomes a powerful tool of transformation, connecting us to our essence and inspiring changes that extend well beyond the Yoga Nidra experience, positively influencing every aspect of our lives.

In this way, Sankalpa is not merely an intention; it is a commitment to our own growth, an expression of our dharma, and a bridge between who we are and what we are meant to be.

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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.