American Viniyoga Institute
Gary Kraftsow, MA, E-RYT 500, Founder and Director, American Viniyoga Institute. For over 30 years, Gary Kraftsow has been a pioneer in the transmission of yoga for health, healing, and personal transformation. He began his study of yoga in India with T.K.V. Desikachar in 1974.
Gary graduated Magna Cum Laude from Colgate University in 1976, and received his Masters in Psychology and Religion from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1983. He began practicing at the Maui School of Yoga Therapy in 1983, and received a Viniyoga Special Diploma from Viniyoga International in Paris, France in 1988. Gary founded the American Viniyoga Institute in 1999. He is a renowned speaker and respected teacher of the Viniyoga methodology for conferences and schools nationally and internationally.
Gary is the author of Yoga for Wellness and Yoga for Transformation and produced two DVDs: Viniyoga Therapy for Low Back, Sacrum, and Hips and Viniyoga Therapy for Upper Back, Neck and Shoulders. He is frequently consulted as one of the foremost Yoga Therapists in the U.S. for research and collaborative projects, notably an NIH study on yoga for back pain and a Harvard Medical School study for generalized anxiety. Gary developed protocol for the National Institutes of Health Studies: “Evaluating Yoga for Chronic Low Back Pain” and “Yoga Therapy for Generalized Anxiety.”
Gary was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor in 2004. "It was yoga that sustained me through the experience of diagnosis, multiple surgeries, and long recoveries with multiple complications. I couldn't do asana or pranayama or chanting, and yet it was the inner dimensions of Yoga practice that were fundamental to my stability and recovery."
For more information about the programs and trainings available through the American Viniyoga Institute, please go to www.viniyoga.com.
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