Kelli Bethel

Dr. Kelli Bethel DPT, PT, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500 has been in clinical practice for over 29 years with a focus on yoga therapy and integrative medicine. She has practiced in numerous settings including inpatient hospital and outpatieny, teaching at the graduate levels, yoga therapy research and is a leader in international yoga therapy orgainizations.

Dr. Kelli Bethel is a physical therapist, certifed yoga therapist and yoga teacher. She has over 29 years in clinical practice. She has spent the last decades working in integrative medicine with a focus on neurologic injuries and disease and oncology. She specalizes in post rehabilitation yoga therapy programs for stroke survivors and tramatic brain injury. Her work in cancer care has been across the cancer continuum. She is passionate about decreasing licensed health care provider burn out and stress and has developed workshops and training for providers using mind body strategies. Dr. Bethel is currently involved in several research projects with the Cochrane Complementary Medicine group including upcoming systematic reviews for Yoga for Parkinsons, Tai Chi for TBI, Yoga for Urinary Incontinence and research methodology. She is the current co chair of the Society of Integrative Oncology, yoga special interst group. This group is currently developing clinical practice guidelines for yoga and yoga therapy in breast cancer. Kelli is also member of the International Association of Yoga Therapist's Credentialing Committee.

Dr. Bethel oversees the yoga therapy clinic and yoga therapy experiential learning at MUIH. She loves watching the students make the connection from the didactic material in the junior year of the program to the clinical application with their clinic clients in their senior year. She teaches anatomy and kinesiology, structual pathology, neuro anatomy and the neurologic disorders in the yoga therapy program. She has taught in the integrative medicine electives at area medical schools on the topics of yoga, yoga therapy and stress management. Prior to joining MUIH she worked at a large teaching hospital and was able to see first hand how important integrative medicine and yoga therapy combined with allopathic medicine offers the patient, a whole person approach to their health and wellness. Dr. Bethel believes strongly that yoga therapy has a place in the medical setting as well as the wellness paradigm. She has presented courses, lectures and workshops nationally and internationally. She is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association, International Association of Yoga Therapist, Yoga Alliance, the Society of Integrative Oncology and the Academic Consortum of Integrative Medicine.