| Are you a 200-hour certified yoga teacher? | Yes, I am a 200-hour certified yoga teacher | ||||||
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| Have you been teaching Yoga for 1 year or more? (minimum 50 hours) | Yes, I have been teaching for one year (minimum 50 hours) | ||||||
| HTML Block | *** Successful completion of a 200-hour Yoga teacher training from a Yoga Alliance approved school is required for participation in the Integral Yoga Therapy Program track to become a Certified Yoga Therapist. | ||||||
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| HTML Block | A minimum of one year (minimum 50 hours) teaching Yoga is required for participation in the Integral Yoga Therapy Program track to become a Certified Yoga Therapist. | ||||||
| Name | Ayla R Eilert Yes | ||||||
| Age | 18-25 | ||||||
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| Address | 1727 Lexington Ave New York, NY 10029 United States Map It | ||||||
| Phone | 7328617182 | ||||||
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| Are you a member of the Integral Yoga Teachers Association | No | ||||||
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| Do you want to achieve your RYT 500-hour designation during this program? | Yes | ||||||
| Chronic Health issues? | No | ||||||
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| Prescription medications and/or natural remedies? | Yes | ||||||
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| Serious illness, injury, or major surgery in the last 5 years? | Yes | ||||||
| Communicable Diseases? | No | ||||||
| Please describe | I was diagnosed with tongue cancer in September of 2021. Because of the aggressiveness of the cancer, treatment was equally as intense. I am in the process of recovering and need to be gentle. Some movement mostly in my neck and upper back will not available to me anymore, however as I am still recovering I am hopeful to prove doctors. Dew to radiation of my neck and tongue area, I am no longer able to speak. I should be able to again however it will take many months and I may have a speech impediment. | ||||||
| Current psychotherapy, counseling, or psychiatric treatment? | No | ||||||
| Do you have any concerns about your physical or mental health that may impact your participation in this program? | Yes | ||||||
| Will you require any special accommodations/needs during your participation in the Integral Yoga Therapy program? | No | ||||||
| Please explain any additional support you might need from Integral Yoga | I do have concern about my physical condition and what I will be able to do once this program starts. Treatment has left me in constant neck and back pain, difficultly with eating and walking, and no voice. These things should come back to me, however the question of when is unknown. I certainly would like it to be faster than it is. | ||||||
| Any Dietary Restrictions/Choices (Allergies, Vegan, Gluten Free, etc.)? | Yes | ||||||
| Please describe | I am only able to eat soft foods with a high PH. Anything acidic burns my mouth and I am not able eat. Ie: lemons, vinegars. | ||||||
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| Highest level of education completed | High School/GED | ||||||
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| Prior coursework/training | Successful completion of a 200-hour Yoga teacher training from a Yoga Alliance approved school plus a minimum of one year teaching Yoga is required for participation in the Integral Yoga Therapy Program track to become a Certified Yoga Therapist. If you are not a registered Yoga teacher, but are a licensed social worker or health care professional who would like to supplement your practice with Yoga therapy techniques, you are welcome to join the program, but will need to first complete a basic 200 hour teacher training to be eligible to receive certification from the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT). | ||||||
| When and where did you receive your 200-hour level Basic Teacher Training? | February 2018, at Full Circle Yoga School | ||||||
| Primary 200hr Instructor | Jolie Wilson | ||||||
| Have you had a personal practice for at least one year? | Yes | ||||||
| How long have you practiced yoga? Describe your personal practice of yoga and how regularly you practice, including the style/tradition of your current practice: | I’ve had a consistent, although irregular, personal practice for the past 5 years now. I used to go 4 times a week to various yoga schools for almost 2 years. When I got my own certification I started practicing on my own. Now my practice has mostly turned into meditation as I have been physically been unable to do any asanas for months because of the brutality of cancer treatment. Nausea prevents me from doing a flow although I am able to do some seated postures. Meditation, Pranayama and Yoga Nidra has helped immensely in my journey with cancer. When all falls apart the only thing left is to breathe. | ||||||
| Do you meditate? | Yes | ||||||
| How long and how often do you meditate? | Whenever it is available to me | ||||||
| What other training experience have you had since 200hr teacher training? | Yoga Nidra | ||||||
| What other styles/traditions of Yoga have you practiced/studied? | Hatha | ||||||
| Is English your primary language? | Yes | ||||||
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| Please describe your past/current Yoga teaching experience including location, timeframe, population taught, etc. | After receiving my 200hr RYT , I started teaching privately in my apartment. After a couple months I started teaching yoga at my dance school, where I was taking and teaching dance classes prior. Dancer’s bodies are quite flexible and have more range of motion than the average person. I enjoyed curating a class more focused on alignment, that would help dancers with their strength, stability and mobility. Class size would vary from 3-10 students. In 2018 I moved to NYC to join Atkin Ballet as a company member. As part of their summer program, I taught yoga to the dancers. After settling into NYC I starting subbing and teaching Hatha and Vinyassa once to twice a week at Harlem Yoga. When the pandemic hit, I taught online for awhile. I eventually left and started teaching to kids age range from 3-17 at Grit Sports Training in August of 2020 everyday. Class size would very from about 3-22 children per class. It was quite the change to say the least but I really loved it. As things started to open up again, I got a job as a yoga instructor at Crunch teaching only once a week on Sundays in NJ. After about a month I began teaching all over Manhattan; multiple classes a day when gyms were able to open up and eased my way out of teaching at Grit. I had to stop teaching at the end of September 2021 as I was rushed in for emergency surgery from my cancer. I haven’t been able to go back to teaching as I just finished chemotherapy and radiation. | ||||||
| Have you taken any Yoga therapy training programs? | No | ||||||
| Do you have any special interests or capabilities that may be relevant? | I have a strong love for the arts. On top of being a yogi, I’m a dancer, painter, and amateur musician. Although it’s been a struggle at times, I have been so lucky to surround my self with all of these practices and do them for a living. | ||||||
| Please list any other training or experience that you think is relevant. | Yoga Nidra | ||||||
| Please describe your studies and understanding of Ayurveda. | I learned about Ayurveda in my 200hour yoga teacher training. I have basic knowledge, however learning more about Ayurveda is one of the main reasons I want to apply for my Yoga Therapy Certification. My dosha is vata/kapha. I haven’t followed Ayurveda closely in my everyday life, but I deeply wish to learn more on applying it to my dosha so that I can start to intensely. | ||||||
| Please describe your studies and understanding of yoga philosophy. | Although the philosophy of yoga comes from Hinduism, it is a philosophy for everyone and it does not matter a person’s religious or spiritual background. For me it has been an amazing tool for my physical and mental heath. Mantra and prayer have become part of my practice. When I first was introduced to yoga, I know I would have never thought myself to enjoy and be part of hour long mantra classes. The Philosophy has allowed me to better open my mind and I believe opening one’s mind to be an underlying purpose of the yogic philosophy. | ||||||
| What are your expectations as a student? What do you hope to gain, learn, or work on? | It was only recently that I realized how much yoga has given me and the huge impact it’s made in my life. I have had an inner ear and movement disorder my whole life. When I was 19, I had a huge wave of nausea came that wouldn’t go away. I was confined to my bed and couldn’t get up for months. I became very scared that there was nothing that could help me and depression started to come. It was a very scary and upsetting time in my life that I eventually got through. After that experience, I started taking Yoga classes at least once everyday. Eventually it lead me to taking my 200 hour yoga teacher training. The subconscious and mental impacts of doing yoga, as deeply as I’ve done, are priceless. Given the challenges and hardships I have had to face since then, yoga has provided me with a positive, healthy, mental turnaround. I hope to further this path of inner peace and self acceptance. I wish to learn more on how to help myself and those around me. I want to work on becoming the person I was meant to be. | ||||||
| Why do you want to enroll in Integral Yoga Therapy Certification (IYTh)? | I’ve been wanting work on myself more before everything fell apart. Yoga has always been a wonderful, positive resource and I felt it time to dive in deep. As I was diagnosed with cancer, my dad and I were reaching out to as many people who had my kind of cancer to gain some information on what to expect. A colleague of my dad’s had pancreatic cancer and decided to heal it through Ayurveda. I am a young healthy 23 year old who no one, including myself, had the slightest idea that this could be a possibility in my young life’s journey. I want to learn how to treat the root cause of why something like this could happen to me and others. Most would say I was doing everything right before. I need learn to help my body be healthy and in alignment on all planes. | ||||||
| How do you intend to use yoga therapy in your practice, both personally and professionally? | I wish to have yoga become a full and complete part of my life. Teaching yoga has become a passion of mine because I love watching people go through the same revelations that I had when I first started. Not only did I learn so much more about my body, but my mind was open to a whole new world of tools to help with mental health. Yoga has helped me find myself, made life easier and more enjoyable, and it is meaningful to me to share that joy with others. It's truly an honor to help guide people through this practice and encourage the mind to become balanced through meditative movement. Since being diagnosed with cancer, I feel it is my dharma to learn more and help others in their chronic illness get through what they need to get through. I’m sure that what I learn will become part of my daily practice to help ease my own pain, grow, and get through the lessons of life the universe throws at me, with grace. | ||||||
| Given your current or future commitments, how will you create the time and space to achieve your goals for the IYTh program and fulfill all of the training requirements? | As I have had a life changing event happen recently, I feel it’s time to change my life. Cancer has dismantled my life and I am in the process of recovering and rebuilding it. I plan to commit my time to the learning for the betterment of myself. The only things that I can foresee needing to reschedule or miss class for would be a doctor’s appointment as my health is important to me, and I need to make sure I am well to attend all the classes. | ||||||
| List any interesting things you would like to share about yourself | I have a cat and I like pumpkin pie. | ||||||
| Are there any current scheduling conflicts or anticipated events that could affect your ability to attend any of the scheduled modules? | I have no scheduling conflicts anticipated. | ||||||
| Please list three references we can contact regarding your IYTh application. One of these references must be deeply steeped in the Integral Yoga Tradition. Please provide name, position, phone, and email address. | Tom Levy, Yogi/artist, 646-286-8030, tomlevy222@gmail.com. Angel Umbach, Healer 609-439-1861 angelmuscledoc@gmail.com Andrew Sass, Yogi, 819-557-3375 andrewsass123@gmail.com | ||||||
| How did you find out about the Integral Yoga Therapy Certification Program? | Integral Yoga Center | ||||||
| Please provide specific website, studio, or individual names if you can, as well as any other specific information on how you heard about the program | I came to find out about Integral Yoga Center on my own. I do not know anyone in the program. I was searching many different programs and researching. I felt a connection to Integral Yoga and would be deeply honored to be part of the community. | ||||||
| What print and/or online Yoga and wellness publications you read frequently and what social media you follow for Yoga information? | Yoga Alliance, Omgea Institutes, Yoga Journal, Tummee, Dharma Yoga, Jivamukti Yoga, PlaInsboro Yoga, Mystic Yoga, Kundlini Yoga East, Matt Giordano, Kayla Nielsen | ||||||
| Agreement | By submitting this form, I hereby declare the above information is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge. I understand that misrepresentation of this information constitutes grounds for the rejection of this application, expulsion from the program and revocation of certification. In the event of rejection, expulsion, or revocation of certification, I understand that I am entitled to no refunds, credits, or adjustments.
I agree to assume all risk of damage or injury that may occur as a student of Integral Yoga Therapy Certification. In consideration of being accepted as a yoga therapy student, the undersigned releases and discharges Integral Yoga, its teachers, and students from any and all claims, demands, actions of any nature, whether present or future, anticipated or unanticipated, known or unknown, that result from the undersigned’s participation in yoga classes or practice of yoga outside of class. | ||||||
| IYTh Application Fee | IYTh Application Fee, Qty: 1, Price: $108.00 |
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