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Richard C. Miller

Founder, Executive Director and President of the Board of Directors
Integrative Restoration Institute

Richard Miller, PhD is a clinical psychologist and contemporary spiritual teacher in the tradition of Nondual Yoga. His mentors have included Laura Cummings (existential-spiritual psychology) Jean Klein (nondualism and Kashmiri Yoga), T.K.V. Desikachar (yoga therapy), and Stephan Chang (Taoism).

Richard is the founding president and CEO of the Integrative Restoration Institute, co-founder of The International Association of Yoga Therapy and founding editor of the professional Journal of IAYT. He is also a founding member and past president of the Institute for Spirituality and Psychology and a founding board member of the Baumann Institute for the study of Awareness and its impact on well-being.

Author of Yoga Nidra: The Meditative Heart of Yoga, Richard serves as a research consultant studying the iRest Yoga Nidra protocol that he has developed (Integrative Restoration ~ iRest, a modern adaptation of the ancient nondual meditation practice of Yoga Nidra, researching its efficacy on health, healing, well-being and awakening with diverse populations including soldiers, veterans, college students, children, seniors, the homeless, and people experiencing issues such as PTSD, chemical dependency, sleep disorders and chronic pain.

It is inspiring to be working side by side within this rich community of spiritual brothers and sisters, bringing these precious teachings to so many diverse populations.

"You are love itself." —Nisargadatta

Kelly Boys

Director of Operations
Certified iRest Teacher
Fairfax, CA

Kelly Boys is a certified hatha yoga and a Level V Certified iRest teacher and is currently the Director of Staffing as well as the Office manager for the Integrative Restoration Institute.

She has most recently taught iRest in southern Ohio to US veterans with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injuries (TBI), as well as to women in prisons and cancer survivors. She also participated in a yoga therapy program for active-duty soldiers with PTSD at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, DC. She began studying with Richard Miller in 2006.

Her teaching style holds space for all of the complexities of the mind/body experience to be held with care and awe as part of a process of deep integration. It is her desire to teach a path of welcoming all that is arising as a way of seeing into the nature of who we are.

So much gratitude to have met these teachings! Looking forward to continuing to grow and let go into remembering the simplicity and peace that is our true nature.

Sue Thollaug