Our mission at Living Well Institute is a simple but tall order: To revolutionize healthcare and its delivery. We are attempting to contribute our part in healthcare reform and improving the quality of healthcare delivery by educating as many people as we can about the benefits of Integrative & Lifestyle Medicine. We teach professional continuing education classes as well as virtual public fitness and wellness classes. Our vision is to improve healthcare through education – one individual at a time. Here’s how we have done our part. 2020 Scholar Spotlight: Our Impact on Healthcare:
This year was the most trying for our world that most of us will experience in our lifetime. So I’d like to celebrate a few positive numbers for the year.
In 2020 here’s how many people’s lives we’ve been able to impact at Living Well Institute:
I want to take a moment to celebrate all of the graduates from 2020! Our Integrative Lifestyle Medicine graduates are too numerous to list, but see the testimonial from Dr. Amanda Wold about her experience in the Integrative Lifestyle Medicine Certificate program!
If you are a PT, OT, or ATC and are interested in a more sustainable career with better patient outcomes and improved self-care, then visit our Institute!
These graduates have earned the designation of Certified Professional Yoga Therapist, which means they have completed all 3 levels of the Medical Therapeutic Yoga training and completed their Community Karma Yoga project (CCC).
This designation takes on average 2 years to earn, and we are proud to celebrate the following PT’s and OT’s:
These candidates have completed the first level of Medical Therapeutic Yoga training, which is a 51 hour program. This program became an entirely ONLINE training in June after we made a fast shift from in-person to online learning after the pandemic struck. We were able to run 3 cohorts who all gave glowing reviews of the new online learning experience!
Due to COVID all of our Level II in-person trainings were cancelled in 2020. But tenacity and grit allowed us to launch a completely ONLINE version just before the end of 2020. These candidates have completed Level I and Level II of the Medical Therapeutic Yoga training, which totals 79 hours.
Did you know we have professional continuing education programs as well as virtual fitness, wellness, and health classes at the Institute? Choose the track that fits you best below:
ILM is the practice of Integrative & Lifestyle Medicine together in rehab and wellness practice. The five facets of Lifestyle Medicine are found in the graphics below and include:
Integrative Medicine at Living Well Institute is defined through the lens of Yoga philosophy, and is practicing through a method known as Medical Therapeutic Yoga.
MTY is a form of Integrative Medicine that is used by healthcare and yoga professionals to deliver yoga in a safer, more effective way by combining it with facets of physical therapy, occupational therapy, and athletic training. This makes MTY more effective than yoga alone, because it draws on the latest science from each of these fields, which includes pain science and neuroscience, as well as the evidence-based practice of Lifestyle Medicine.
Healthcare providers who use these approaches, simply termed as Integrative & Lifestyle Medicine, have advanced training in both types of medicine and are also licensed in their respective field of medicine or rehabilitation. Most therapists who train at Living Well Institute are physical therapists, the vast majority of those holding doctoral degrees. We also have occupational therapists, mental health therapists, athletic trainers, nurses, and some medical doctors as graduates. Yoga teachers and therapists also have the ability to incorporate tenets of the MTY method into their practice too, to make yoga safer and more effective for their students.
We believe ILM is important because a person is MORE than a diagnosis or illness. They deserve to receive care that goes beyond just “sick-care.” Healthcare should include preventive and curative care, and should also include dignified end-of-life care.
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