A Conversation with IAYT President Matthew Taylor

Matthew J. Taylor, PT, PhD, RYT was elected president of the board of directors for IAYT in February 2008. He has 27 years of clinical experience in physical therapy and is a leader in integrating Yoga with Western approaches to rehabilitation and therapy. He received his Masters of Physical Therapy degree from Baylor University in 1981, and served as a physical therapist and active duty Army Medical Specialist officer in the United States Army from 1980 through 1988. In 1988, he left the military and opened a private physical therapy practice in Galena, Illinois. In 1995, he expanded his physical therapy practice into an integrated clinic and health club. He became a certified, advanced-level Integrative Yoga Therapy therapist in 1998, and in 2006, he completed his PhD in transformational learning and change thorough the California Institute of Integral Studies. In 2003, he founded the Dynamic Systems Rehabilitation (DSR) clinics in Scottsdale, AZ. The clinic offers therapy and wellness services that integrate classical Yoga, physical therapy, and modern transformation learning theory. He has been an IAYT board member since February 2007 and is IAYT's representative for the Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health Care. Matt sat down with us to discuss his perspective on Yoga therapy, IAYT, and some possibilities for the future of both.