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Angela L. Riewe
Richard C. Miller

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

Richard Miller, PhD is a clinical psychologist, author, researcher, yogic scholar and spiritual teacher. For over 40 years, Richard Miller has devoted his life and work to integrating the nondual wisdom teachings of Yoga, Tantra, Advaita, Taoism and Buddhism with Western psychology. Among his mentors were Jean Klein, T.K.V. Desikachar and Stephen Chang.

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 senior advisor for the Baumann Foundation 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 and well-being with diverse populations including active-duty soldiers, veterans, college students, children, seniors, the homeless, the incarcerated, and people experiencing issues such as sleep disorders, PTSD, chemical dependency, chronic pain, and related disorders.

In addition to his research and writing projects, Richard lectures and leads trainings and retreats internationally.

"You are love itself." —Nisargadatta

Kirsten Guest

iRest Certified Teacher (Level V Supervisor)
Kimberley, BC, Canada

IRI Director of Certification

YA500 Yoga Teacher

Kirsten has been a student of Richard Miller's since 1998 when she attended her first Retreat into Stillness. After this retreat, she began to find a sense of peace and self acceptance that kept her returning to retreat after retreat, digging deeper for the source of this new-found ease in her life.

The first iRest Level I training in 2006 put a context and a framework to the work that had been changing her life and informing her yoga teaching since she began working with Richard nearly nine years prior. It all began to fall into place.

Kirsten has since become an active member of the iRest team, helping to develop the iRest Trainings, refining the training format and material, and, along with a supportive team, create the iRest Teacher Certification program.

Kirsten’s particular interest in iRest is in effectively spreading these teachings to as many people as possible. There is nothing more delightful to her than watching the incredible transformation that occurs as a student of iRest begins to get a taste of the ease, acceptance, and peace that she began to find for herself so many years ago. In her local community, she offers multi-week iRest courses to yoga students as well as the general public. She travels to offer introductory weekends, retreats, as well as assist at iRest Trainings.

Kelly Boys

Director of Operations
Certified iRest Teacher
Mill Valley, CA

Kelly Boys graduated from Trinity Western University in British Columbia, Canada with a BA in Intercultural Religious Studies and Third World Development. She is a certified hatha yoga and a certified iRest Yoga Nidra teacher and is currently the Director of Operations for the Integrative Restoration Institute.

She has taught iRest Yoga Nidra to US veterans with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injuries (TBI), as well as to women in prisons, cancer survivors, and those with substance abuse addictions. She also participated in a yoga therapy program for active-duty soldiers with PTSD at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, DC with Robin Carnes. She began studying with Richard Miller, the founder of iRest, in 2007.

She is currently teaching at the San Bruno jail for men convicted of violent offenses who are veterans. She has recently begun teaching a combination of dance and meditation at the various retreats and trainings offered through the Integrative Restoration Institute, as well as locally in the San Francisco Bay area.

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.

“Radiance, joy, love of truth, and the true Spirit of Yoga are alive and well, shining brightly through Kelly Boys and the teachings she brings forward into the world. I highly recommend you spend time partaking in the inner joy you will uncover within yourself as you experience her classes.” ~ Richard Miller, PhD

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