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BIO

Kelli M. Bethel

PT, C-IAYT, E-RYT500

 

http://cim.umaryland.edu

 

Kelli Bethel a member of the American Physical Therapy Association is a practicing physical therapist with over 26 years of experience.

She is a certified yoga therapist and member of the International Association of Yoga Therapist., as well as a registered experienced 500-hour yoga instructor with Yoga Alliance.
Kelli is the Director of Yoga Programming at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine. 

She oversees and trains 200 and 300-hour yoga teachers and teaches to the 4th year medical students integrative medicine rotation and instructs healthcare practitioners in the Applied Integrative Medicine Program.
In addition, she treats cancer clients as part of the Center for Integrative Medicine’s Integrative Wellness Program at the Maryland Proton Treatment Center. 
She also owns and operates a studio on the campus of the  University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center where she offers therapeutic yoga classes to cancer and stroke and brain injury clients.
She has completed her 200 hour Registered Yoga Training (RYT)  and went on to complete her 500 hr RYT at the University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Integrated Medicine. In 2017.
Kelli has lectured on her Yoga for Stroke Program at the International Therapeutic Yoga Annual Conference CIC programming, American Congress of Rehabilitative Medicine and held round table discussions at the Yoga as Medicine Conference, and given numerous lectures, continuing education workshops and in-service throughout the medical and non-medical community.

Additionally, Kelli has completed level 1 and 2A training of the Warrior at Ease Program for military personnel and is a Reiki Master.