Events

The International Association of Yoga Therapists is pleased to announce its first Symposium on Yoga Research (SYR) on October 1-3, 2010 at the Himalayan Institute.

This will be a single track academic research meeting devoted to yoga and yoga therapy research that will include presentations by senior researchers, extensive poster sessions, and ample opportunities for interaction between scientists, trainees and yoga therapists and instructors. Below is the list of currently confirmed speakers:

• Dean Ornish, M.D. (Keynote by videoconference)
  Clinical Professor of Medicine
  University of California, San Francisco
  
• Shirley Telles, M.B.B.S., Ph.D. (Keynote)
  Principal Investigator, Indian Council of Medical Research
  Center for Advanced Research in Yoga and Neurophysiology
  
• Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. (Keynote)
  Professor, Department of Psychiatry
  Boston University School of Medicine
  
• Virginia Carrieri-Kohlman, R.N., D.N.Sc.
  Professor, Department of Physiological Nursing
  University of California at San Francisco
  
• Lorenzo Cohen, Ph.D.
  Professor, Department of Behavioral Science
  M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
  
• Suzanne Danhauer, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
  Wake Forest University
  
• Mary Lou Galantino, P.T., Ph.D.
  Professor, Program in Physical Therapy
  Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
  
• Chris Streeter, M.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
  Boston University School of Medicine
  
• Kyeongra Yang, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.N.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Health & Community Systems
  School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh
  

A preconference workshop on October 1 will offer a unique opportunity for yoga therapists and instructors and new investigators/trainees to learn the basics of yoga research.

Important dates:

Full symposium website opens: April, 2010
Symposium registration opens: May, 2010
Call for Poster Abstracts opens: May, 2010
Abstract submission deadline: June 15, 2010
Abstract acceptance notification: August 9, 2010

Please see the preliminary website