Advisory & Peer Review Board

Professional Yoga Therapy Advisory & Peer Review Board 

Why have an Advisory Board?

1. So you can safely refer patients to our graduates
   
   As a health care professional we want you to be comfortable knowing you can assuredly refer your patients to our therapists, who are seasoned medical professionals trained in both east and west therapies.  Our graduates are evaluate and manage complex medical histories with clinical application of medical therapeutic yoga. 
   
   PYT founder Ginger Garner, started PYT to answer a need for post-graduate level education in yoga and yoga therapy.  She believes that consumer/patient safety and optimal outcomes for outpatient, inpatient, and post-rehabilitation are paramount.   For this reason, PYT has the highest level of prerequisite requirements of any yoga therapy program in the United States and abroad. In 2010 and beyond, the PYT Advisory Board will be responsible for reviewing all programming to further ensure sound medical and yogic methodology and practice.
    
2. So you can effectively, safely use & supervise the use of yoga In your clinical practice, hospital, or facility.
   
   Our faculty members are chosen for expertise in their fields of science and education. All of our course manuals and handouts are peer reviewed and scrutinized for evidence base, safety, reliability, and validity in a clinical and community/post-rehab setting. 
   Our new programming in distance and on-site learning is evaluated by peer reviewers and designed in conjunction with an expert in pedagogy.
   
   As a health care professional - you are pressed for time, busy going from one patient to the next - how do you have time to incorporate mind/body therapies into your current practice?  You can - PYT teaches you how. 
   
   You can improve patient outcomes and decrease your day-to-day stress by using the PYT model in your rehabilitation and therapy practice.
    

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MEET OUR ADVISORY BOARD

 

Satkirin Khalsa MD, RYT was our first member to the PYT Advisory Board.  Dr. Khalsa and PYT Founder, Ginger Garner, are co-writing and planning CME in medical yoga therapy for physicians and allied health professionals.

Dr. Khalsa's invaluable experience as a long time yogi and medical doctor is welcomed and is highly valuable to the us. We extend a huge welcome Dr. Khalsa and thank her for her sacrificial efforts to legitimize the practice of medical therapeutic yoga in western medicine, in America, and beyond.

Dr. Khalsa is a board certified family physician in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she works part time in a conventional medicine clinic and part time in her own integrated medicine private practice. Unsatisfied with the direction of our current health care system, she started a private practice, Integrated Health Medicine, where she blends the best of both eastern and western medicine. Working part time in each clinic, she is able to enhance her education in all realms of health and healing, to provide the best options for her patients. Dr. Khalsa completed her medical training at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. She was elected Chief Resident, and served on the Graduate Medical Education Committee, as well as the Resident Education Committee. While there she developed the first exchange program for residents to work and learn at the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in Tempe, AZ. Since graduating residency in 2007, she has completed medical acupuncture training through the Helms Medical Institute.

For 8 years of her childhood she attended a boarding school in Northern India. She practiced yoga daily and began her teaching experience, as all students rotated teaching morning practice. She completed her formal teacher training through the Kundalini Research Institute in 1998. She incorporates yoga as medicine in her clinic, especially in her private practice.

Dr. Khalsa's passion and vision is to see medicine move in a direction that is more preventative and healing; a health care system that embraces yoga and other eastern practices; a day when yoga is covered by insurance, and every American can practice yoga and experience its healing aspects.

Dr. Khalsa and her husband, Joe Alcock, live in the beautiful foothills of Albuquerque, New Mexico. They live a very active lifestyle with their dog, Nanda.

Private Clinical & Yoga Therapy Practice: http://integratedhealthmed.com 
Contact: satkirin@professionalyogatherapy.org

Emily Egerton PhD - Our newest member of our Advisory Board. Her official bio and headshot is coming soon.  Dr. Egerton is responsible for helping launch PYT's new distance learning program, develop webinars and new content, and evolve our methods of teaching and outreach into the medical community.  Work on the distance program began in 2010 and continues through 2012 with the development of new programs in orthopaedics, holistic nutrition, pelvic floor and women's health, including prenatal and postpartum CE development.  Dr. Egerton also works with Duke University and George Mason University on similar projects in distance learning.  Welcome to the Board Dr. Egerton!

Why have a Peer Review Board?

You can be assured that the programs, CE, and CME I write are grounded in evidence based medicine and consider the value of both academic and experiential learning. We have a dedicated group of peers who have been editing my manuals, CE, and CME courses and programs since I founded the PYT program in 2001. 

Warmest Regards,

Ginger
Founder of PYT