Janet Houtz

     SADANI Janet Houtz is an highly respected yoga therapist, serving as lead teacher for hatha yoga teacher training programs since 2006. She became a certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher in 1997, and she received certification as YOGA THERAPIST in the Viniyoga tradition with Gary Kraftsow of American Viniyoga Institute in 2006. She currently studies with Chase Bossart with emphasis in sanskrit Mantras and chanting. She is an I-Rest Yoga Nidra Level I teacher having studied with Dr. Richard Miller and incorporates I-REST as a healing modality in her work.  
    AFTER owning and managing Yoga Center of Lake Charles for 8 years (Louisiana), Sadani focused on training and mentoring yoga teachers at Yoga Yoga and SadaniYoga, Austin, Tx. She currently offers private yoga therapy sessions in-person and via Skype.  She offers therapeutically focused workshops, in-depth spiritually-focused yoga retreats and specialized therapeutic yoga therapy clinics.
    SADANI has been influenced by Gary Kraftsow and Robin Rotherberg, who co-authored the protocol and taught the classes for the landmark study Comparing Yoga, Exercise, and a Self-Care Book for Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized, Controlled Trial, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in Dec., 2005. A later follow up study using the same protocol was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine in Oct. 2011.
      An additional influence on Sadani is THE WORK by Byron Katie and the Emotional Freedom Technique, EFT as taught by Gary Craig.