Yoga

Expand Yoga / Registered Yoga School (RYS®), Tacoma, WA

Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT 200) - March 2015

Yoga Instructor

• Teaches yoga at Core Power Yoga in Ballston (Arlington), VA - November 2022 - present
• Taught yoga at Karma Yoga in Falls Church, VA - May 2022-September 2022
• Taught Yoga Foundations and substitute taught at Edge Yoga in Arlington, VA - January 2019-March 2020
• Taught “Yang Yin” Yoga Workshops at the Bechtel International Center - September 2016-June 2017
• Taught donation based yoga classes on Stanford University Campus -July 2016-June 2017
• Mentored in Hot Yoga methods and substitute taught at Hot Yoga Ocean Ave in San Francisco, CA - June 2016- June 2017
• Taught introduction to yoga with a Tacoma, WA based psychologist for mental health patients - Spring 2016
• Taught vinyasa yoga for active duty Soldiers of the US Army on Joint Base Lewis McChord, WA - Spring 2016

Research Volunteer, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, CA - July 2016 – June 2017

• Volunteer Hours: approximately 150 total hours (Without Compensation / WOC)
• Taught chair yoga and yoga for special populations with disabilities
• Collected Measure Yourself Medical Outcome Profile (MYMOP) data from veterans referred to yoga for proposed paper:
• Health-Related Links Between Chronic Symptoms and Yoga Program Attendance
• Assisted in War Related Injury and Illness Study Center (WRIISC) Research Studies
• Yoga and Group Treatment for Chronic Pain in Gulf War Veterans
• Breathing Meditation for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (https://www.warrelatedillness.va.gov/ptsd/
• Danielle C. Mathersul, R. Jay Schulz-Heik, Timothy J. Avery, Santiago Allende, Jamie M. Zeitzer, Peter J. Bayley, "US Veterans Show Improvements in Subjective but Not Objective Sleep following Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Secondary Analyses from a Randomised Controlled Trial", Depression and Anxiety, vol. 2023, Article ID 7001667, 13 pages, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/7001667
• Avery, T. J., Schulz-Heik, R. J., Friedman, M., Mahoney, L., Ahmed, N., & Bayley, P. J. (2021). Clinical yoga program utilization in a large health care system. Psychological Services, 18(3), 389–397. https://doi.org/10.1037/ser0000420