CALL FOR PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS AND PRACTICES FOR COMMON INTEREST COMMUNITIES WORKSHOPS
The Common Interest Community (CIC) Chairpersons invite you to submit your work in the form of a one page proposal (2500 characters) for the IAYT SYTAR 2009 Thursday
sessions. We welcome professional practice-based submissions related to any tradition or aspect of Yoga therapy germane to the respective community's interest.
The CIC's categories include:
1.) Musculo-skeletal/Structural (Chairs: Loren Fishman, MD and Ellen Saltonstall)
2.) Physiological (Chair: Richard Usatine, MD)
3.) Personality, Mental/Emotional Health (Chair: Richard Miller, PhD)
4.) Inspirational/Spiritual (Chairs: Lilias Folan and Rama Jyoti Vernon)
5.) Seniors (Chairs: Carol Krucoff and Kimberly Carson)
6.) Business/Professional Development (Chairs: Matthew Taylor, PT, PhD and Rich
Goldstein)
7.) Seriously Ill and End of Life (Chairs: Molly Lannon Kenny and Jennifer Taylor)
Proposals should include material representing the presenter's own work. All proposals
will be reviewed, scored and chosen on merit for oral presentation
during SYTAR Thursday CIC sessions. All accepted proposals will be published in a supplement to the International Journal of Yoga Therapy - which will be available to all participants at the meeting.
Individuals selected to present at the CIC workshops will still be required to register at a discounted registration fee according to the following price structure designed to encourage individuals to submit their works:
1. Work accepted for presentation: $395
2. Work submitted but not accepted for presentation: $495
All individauls submitting their work must register for SYTAR 2009 no later than two weeks following notification of acceptance/rejection. Work whose authors do not register will not be accepted.
Instructions for proposal submission:
- Proposals will only be considered if submitted in English.
- The proposal should be prepared in a Microsoft Word (1997-2003 Document) compatible format.
- At the top of the page, indicate the interest community the proposal is to be considered
for oral presentation.
- Length of the proposal, excluding the title and the author(s), should not exceed 2500 characters, including spaces (please note: 2500 characters, not words).
- Font: Black Verdana, 10 point size.
- For presentation proposal, structure the proposal with the following headings: "Objective", "Teaching Methods to be Utilized", "Time Required for Presentation (15-45 minutes)
(Presentation proposals can range from 15 to 45 minutes)",
and "How the work will benefit the interest community". See the example below.
- The acceptable format for the proposal title, presenter, institution and key words for the proposal submission is shown in the following example:
The benefit of extended savasana for fibromyalgia.
J.K. Chang, BS, RYT
Department of Physical Education, University of Modern Sciences, Zanesville, Ohio
Keywords: Yoga, savasana, fibromyalgia
- The organizers do not edit proposals and author corrections will not be accepted after final submission. Proposals should be checked carefully for accuracy prior to submission as proposals failing to meet all the proposal requirements
may not be accepted.
- The title may be a maximum of 150 characters, typed principally in lowercase letters, and using capitals only where essential (e.g., ‘New applications of BKS Iyengar props’). Titles exceeding this limit will be automatically truncated.
- The proposal should be as informative as possible. Describe applications,
proposed teaching method and provide brief numerical and statistical results if available. The inclusion of innovation and general interest to the interest community
is an important consideration in the evaluation/scoring of the proposal. Non-standard abbreviations should be described in full when first mentioned followed by the abbreviation in parentheses.
Important dates:
- Proposal submission deadline: December 1, 2008
- Acceptance notification: January 12, 2009
Submission:
When you have completed your proposal,
please save it as a word document in the following file name format:
firstauthorlastname proposal title.doc
i.e.,:
SusanSmith Yoga therapy for nervous proposal submitters.doc
Note: do not use any special characters in the file name i.e. hyphens, quotation marks, dollar sign etc.
Example of an interest community proposal:
Common Interest Community: Seniors
Yoga therapy for fall prevention in an assisted living
center.
K. Johnson
Johnson Lotus Yoga Therapy, Pittsburgh , PA
Keywords: Yoga, fall prevention
Objective: Yoga is an increasingly popular, but untested, complementary and alternative medical treatment that is used for preventing falls. Falls are a leading cause of morbidity
in senior citizens. This presentation describes our program at a local assisted
living facility that has helped to decrease falls at the facility by 50% in the
three years since we began teaching Yoga. We want to share our experience of what
has worked and also what did not work in this setting.
Teaching Methods: A brief didactic powerpoint description followed by a practical demonstration of
the favorite asana of our group.
Time Required: 20 minutes
Description: We have presented Yoga for fall prevention at an assisted living center of 70 residents
for three years. The average class is 14 residents. We have an ongoing contract
with the facility where we are paid a fixed amount per class with additional fees
if the class exceeds 12 participants to pay for assistants. We have been featured
in both the local paper and radio. The facility uses our program as a PR tool to
be seen as both safety conscious and progressive in thinking. We had to add a second
class per week this year due to space restrictions and popularity.
Interest to the Community:
This program can be easily replicated in communities to not only serve the residents,
but in awareness of Yoga therapy in the community and for the members practice promotion.
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