Order Today
|
|
Bo Forbes
Bo Forbes, PsyD, E-RYT500, is a yoga teacher, clinical psychologist, and integrative yoga therapist with more than 17 years of clinical experience in mind-body healing. She is the founder of Elemental Yoga and director of the Elemental Yoga Mind-Body Teacher Training Program, which is currently the only integrative mind-body teacher training in the country that is registered with Yoga Alliance. Forbes is also the founder and director of the Center for Integrative Yoga Therapeutics™, which provides innovative mind-body yoga therapeutics to clients in the Boston and New York areas.
Forbes' in-depth yoga training spans both the Ashtanga vinyasa and Iyengar yoga systems. She has studied extensively with Tias Little in Santa Fe, where she received her level I and II teacher training certificates, and Patricia Walden in Boston. She has also studied Sanskrit, both at Harvard University and with Nicolai Bachman of Sanskrit Sounds. Forbes is certified through Yoga Alliance at the maximum 500-hour level. She serves as a teacher and mentor for many of Boston's top yoga instructors and bodyworkers, was named "Best of Boston," and teaches yoga classes, workshops, and advanced trainings nationally.
Forbes has a master's degree in social sciences and a doctoral degree in clinical psychology. Her background at the University of Chicago, including training in biopsychology and sleep disorders, behavioral medicine, and stress management, informs her teaching, private work, and clinical supervision. She has conducted training seminars for health-care organizations and professionals in the health-care fields, and has consulted to corporations, schools, and health care agencies.
Her extensive background in clinical psychology and yoga led Forbes to create Integrative Yoga Therapeutics™, which incorporates the most effective elements of yoga to guide each client toward their natural inner capacity for healing. She has also spoken at numerous workshops and conferences nationally on the use of yoga as a mind-body intervention.
In addition, Forbes has developed an innovative approach combining yoga and psychotherapy that embodies a marriage of Eastern and Western healing systems. She presented on this work at the 2006 Harvard Medical School conference, "Meditation in Psychotherapy." She is currently in the process of developing training programs for psychotherapists on the integration of yoga therapeutics and psychotherapy. The Elemental Yoga Mind-Body Teacher Training Program was recently designated an approved sponsor for continuing education for social workers through the National Association of Social Workers. In addition, Elemental Yoga is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.
Forbes' articles about yoga and psychology are frequently featured in Yoga Journal and Body & Soul. She has extensive experience in public speaking and media, including radio and television, and was recently featured in a documentary on yoga for insomnia. |
|
|
|
