Iyengar Yoga Therapy

 Iyengar Yoga therapy is fast becoming a recognized health profession that focuses on the integration of mind and body to help the body function as naturally as possible.

Yoga therapy is the professional application of yoga principles and practice, to promote health and wellness within a therapeutic setting.

This includes personalized assessment and an adapted yoga practice for individuals and small groups. With the core focus being on the individuals’ physical and emotional needs. Therapy classes may be attended long term or temporarily, with the intent to be a support for a home practice and/or continued attendance of regular classes.

Iyengar yoga therapy teachers are highly trained professionals who’ve spent years training within their association of IYAC, to become a Level 3 Certified Iyengar teacher. This demanding achievement and application exceeds the industry’s standards of training that is recognized by the International Association of yoga therapists C-IAYT.

Eileen Millar is a certified yoga therapist C-IAYT and holds a level 3 Iyengar teaching certificate. She is one of the few qualified to teach Iyengar yoga therapeutics. With over 500 hours of therapeutic study and over 3000 professional developmental hours, her understanding and application of advanced methods are extensive.

Her comprehensive training and unique skills come from a lifetime of study, which include Apprenticing in special needs classes at Yoga Centre Toronto with Marlene Mawhinney. Several trips to Pune, India to study at the RIMY and partaking in yoga conventions there and in

North America with Geeta Iyengar.

Studying with Stephanie Quirk, a world leader in therapeutics, over a 6-year period who came directly from the Iyengar institute, sharing her knowledge from the medical classes with higher level teachers.

Eileen participated in a research project focusing and assessing the effects of Iyengar yoga on woman who had gone through breast cancer. Conducted out of the yoga space Vancouver in conjunction with UBC and BC Cancer society.

She has completed Elise Millers yoga for scoliosis part 1 & 2. As well as the Thera yoga method for Pelvic floor health with Samantha Ackers.

Eileen and is also a Certified holistic practitioner, graduating from the BC institute of holistic studies in 2006. Specializing in lymphatic massage and aromatherapy.

She continues to advance her professional development through IYAC and IAYT and Anatomy trains.

Customized private and group sessions available at the studio and online.

“I have referred clients to Eileen for private lessons to help them overcome and manage symptoms after an injury in a motor vehicle accident. She is very skillful at identifying what poses will address their individual needs. They learn breathing and relaxation techniques that reduces chronic pain, anxiety and depression symptoms. Eileen is very encouraging and motivating with her students. Her studio is well equipped with many different props. It is a supportive and calming environment in which to heal from injury.”

Kim Gibson

I just wish that I had met her 16 years ago. Because of the continued stress of my uneven gait a great deal of damage has been done to my body. Very slowly but surely I am becoming stronger and more mobile. Eileen?s method of adaptive Iyengar moves and positions using various props takes into account my current mobility issues and works from there. She is always coming up with new and different ways for me to move my body. I leave the studio feeling so much better than when I went in. Not only is my mobility better, but since taking yoga with Eileen, I even sleep better. I highly recommend Eileen’s Yoga Studio to anyone who is looking to feel better and especially if they have movement issues. Of all the various exercise programs and therapies I have tried since my accident 16 years ago, this yoga program has had the most beneficial and long-lasting effects by far.

Thank you Eileen from the bottom of my heart!”

Christine Grant

“Yoga calms the brain, soothes the nerves and reduces pain”

BKS Iyengar