| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home Center | Yogaville, VA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | Joseph Arthur Duquette, Jr. Vishnu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Age | 65+ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Address | PO Box 8 Union Hall, VA 24176 United States Map It | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Phone | 434-409-4787 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Are you a member of the Integral Yoga Teachers Association | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Do you want to achieve your RYT 500-hour designation during this program? | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chronic Health issues? | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Please describe | Arthritis in my shoulders, down my right arm and hand, No cartilage in my two rotator cuffs and large bone spurs there also, Controlled HPB, Enlarged Prostate, Something going on (pain with movements and activities) with my right wrist and hand (seeing doctor in four days) (am told that I will probably be referred to a hand surgeon), otherwise my disposition is bright... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Please list all conditions and their respective medications |
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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 | Pacemaker implanted - November 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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? | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Will you require any special accommodations/needs during your participation in the Integral Yoga Therapy program? | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Any Dietary Restrictions/Choices (Allergies, Vegan, Gluten Free, etc.)? | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Highest level of education completed | Graduate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Past occupation(s) and number of years worked - Please list |
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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? | Yogaville | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary 200hr Instructor | Satya Greenstone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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: | 1956 - Started meditating through Adoration in the Catholic Church | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Do you meditate? | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| How long and how often do you meditate? | One hour each morning (Half Skull-shining/Alternate nostril breathing, Half meditation/Arati) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| What other training experience have you had since 200hr teacher training? | Accessible Yoga | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| What other styles/traditions of Yoga have you practiced/studied? | All of my training has been Integral Yoga | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Is English your primary language? | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Essay Questions | Please answer the following open-ended questions fully and concisely. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Which yoga therapy training programs have you taken? | Adaptive Yoga | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Have you taken any Yoga therapy training programs? | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Do you have any special interests or capabilities that may be relevant? | After a long period of being away from the addiction recovery community, I have begun to read more literature on, and especially the earlier writings of the founders and beginnings of AA, and in the next few years, I will have been sober half of the existence of AA (soon there will not be many folks left who will be able to make this claim), maybe work with those still suffering from addiction... I would like to go further in my Arthritis TT, as I am certainly one with those who suffer from this challenge and would like to help them through the teachings of yoga as well... I enjoy singing, and would like to do voiceover work to record and communicate spiritual teachings for the benefit of many... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Please list any other training or experience that you think is relevant. | The many experiences and education mentioned in answering above questions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Please describe your studies and understanding of Ayurveda. | Interesting... I don't have a grasp on it all... The Basics of Ayurveda is just that, and even then a novice like me only picks up so much the first time... I certainly see clearly how there are five sheaths and that it makes a whole lot of sense that different events/stressors can be happening to you at different levels of your being at the same time... I have purchased quite a few of the major modern books on Ayurveda for reference as I go forward on my journey... And the gunas certainly describe well the different energies/states of being that translate to my own self, as well as the "being" of things around me, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Please describe your studies and understanding of yoga philosophy. | Ever since hearing in my own Catholic tradition during Vatican II the pronouncement that Truth is found outside of the Catholic Church, this opened up a path for me that has enriched me as I was able to look at other belief systems in a totally different way, an acceptance without judgment, a far cry from the pre-Vatican II Catholic Church world in which I was born where liturgy was in Latin, the priest turned away from the people, what non-Latin words were used were French, one needed to walk on the other side of the street when passing a Protestant Church, and many other challenges to unity too many to list here... Yoga philosophy, especially as expressed by Integral Yoga is inclusive, as a matter of fact speaks emphatically to unity, accepts all belief systems because they all ascribe to the concept of light... As far as I can tell, in Yoga there is one God, a Supreme Being who is responsible for the entire creation... As far as reincarnation, no one from the other side has enlightened me in this area, though I would not mind it being a solid truth since it would certainly explain the concept of suffering in the world... My spiritual director did not believe that an all-loving God would, in the end, banish anyone to an eternity in hell, certainly some sort of cleansing process would be needed for me before I could enter into the magnificence of God... Purgatory has been that for me growing up, but I could certainly see the validity of returning over and over in a new body in order to shed karma... in the end, what would be the difference? Ever since 1956, my subsequent "meditation" journey, my Meditation/Conntemplation journey of Lectio/Divina. it's all yoga to me as I had no problem coming to Yogaville and feeling very much at home, and Peace and Joy, Love and Light has been speaking to me every since the 1960s... The asanas were icing on the cake as, except for the year I was doing the Sun Salutation praying the Our Father in a Times Square Catholic church, I probably entered yoga teachings going in the other direction... I'm glad I discovered Yogaville twenty years ago, and more so four years ago, because I'm not sure if I had done it back in the 1960s when most of the original followers of Swami Satchidananda had, that it might not have been one of the many things I did and tried, maybe superficially, certainly not by design, and possibly not persevered... But then again, had I known Gurudev better back then, more so than the few times I saw him at satsangs in the 1990s, it might have been a different story... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| What are your expectations as a student? What do you hope to gain, learn, or work on? | I would expect that in the future the same kind of environment that I have experienced during all of my past Yogaville teacher trainings would continue in a similar fashion The second part of this question is answered above... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Why do you want to enroll in Integral Yoga Therapy Certification (IYTh)? | It's not so much what I want, but, as in pretty much all of my spiritual life, what I have been led to investigate and in which to persevere... Ever since coming to Yogaville, starting in 2017 for a weekend, I have been discovering new highlights to my spiritual investigation, and the bonus is, if I get enough of this practical, theoretical, and spiritual information into my body in order to pass it along to others who can receive these teachings, in groups or individually, then that's icing on the cake... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| How do you intend to use yoga therapy in your practice, both personally and professionally? | See the above answers ... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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? | Although I was only in my late forties and early fifties when I ended up facilitating my own group's Masters Degree Program at Loyola, doing my CPE units, along with all the didactics and other paperwork required, and half another Masters Degree program, while still working almost full time, I am now retired but have the added challenge of not absorbing as much as quickly, but since I feel I am being led, that somehow, if the graces I have received in the past are any indicator of the graces I will receive in the future, the finish line will eventually come and there will be another world ahead to discover... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| List any interesting things you would like to share about yourself | How much more do you want to know...? I'm sure much more will be revealed in classes at appropriate moments... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Are there any current scheduling conflicts or anticipated events that could affect your ability to attend any of the scheduled modules? | i don't believe so... My doctor says he would probably be referring me to a hand surgeon for my wrist ganglion, and what looks like the beginnings of trigger fingers, but he told me in January that the ganglion would not be too big a deal, and maybe I can wait until after this SMTT before I proceed with that... the trigger fingers are a new thing I will be discussing with him in a few days... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | I met Swami Sharadananda first at Tabor Retreat house in the 1990s when my Weekend retreat followed her Friday afternoon retreat which I attended - she later invited me to Yogaville, toured me around, and I came several times for satsangs with Gurudev... I met and worked with Swami Saarvananda from 1999-2001 when I did my two units of CPE as an intern chaplain in the same two years that she was doing her eight units of CPE as a resident, and we interns and residents came together for various and sundry meetings as well a serving and offering pastoral care and comfort to the UVA Medical Center patients ... I met Dr. Norman Zamcheck forty five years ago and we are best friends - he was a retired teacher and vice-principal in the New York City School system and Principal in the Connecticut School System... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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've know about it since it began being offered at Yogaville... during my visits, Teacher Trainings, website, people speaking about it, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| What print and/or online Yoga and wellness publications you read frequently and what social media you follow for Yoga information? | I open daily emails from many yoga sites that I subscribe to, from organizations as well as individual teachers, I attend some satsangs, read some Integral Yoga Magazine articles, listen to some IYTA Webinars, wish I could do more, but I can't say that I have been able to keep up with a lot of it since I have been constantly taking TTs! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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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