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three well-attended conferences
in Los Angeles. She also served
two terms as vice president of
Yoga Alliance (YA), the rep-
resentational organization for
yoga teachers. She was chair of
yoga standards for YA, includ-
ing Prenatal Yoga and Yoga for
Children Standards.
SPECIALISTS TEACH
Zador’s accredited school
includes certified yoga ther-
apists as faculty, with M.Ds.
and Ph.Ds. as adjunct faculty
giving lectures on their medical
specialties, and staff faculty to
provide instruction in clinical
applications of yoga therapy.
Specialists are brought to
lecture, Zador said, “because
breast cancer, for example, is
not our area of expertise, but we
need to understand the disease
and work on clinical adapta-
tions for yoga therapy. We can
help patients self-manage symp-
toms of their disease, before and
after surgery.
”
Members of her family are
involved with IIYT. The busi-
ness manager is her husband,
Dr. Ivan Zador, a Ph.D. in bio-
medical engineering and retired
from DMC Hutzel Women’s
Hospital in Detroit. Formerly
from Cleveland, they belong
to the Birmingham Temple in
Farmington Hills.
Their daughter Lara
Zador, M.D., senior anes-
thesiologist and director of
Henry Ford Health System’s
Multidisciplinary Pain Clinic,
is an adjunct faculty member.
Three grandchildren from their
teacher daughter, Liza Wade,
assist in the school’s Yoga for
Children program, for ages
7-13.
Certified yoga therapist
Donna Raphael of Bloomfield
Township, also a yoga teacher,
learned of Zador’s school in
2014. Completing the extern-
ship program in January 2018,
Raphael said, has “totally trans-
formed my teaching and my
own yoga practice.
”
Zador, Raphael’s mentor,
“brings the ancient yoga teach-
ing into the practical applica-
tion of helping people as they
are — whether they are dealing
with chronic pain or side effects
of disease, or if they want to
improve their own health.
”
Raphael added, “Yoga therapy
helps us find our inner strength
as we live in a stressful world.
“It becomes more and more
important as we grow older.
”
Yoga therapist
Donna Raphael
Long-term Care, End-of-Life Planning
JVS Volunteers Build Skills
Talking about end-of-life care isn’t
easy, but it’s necessary. Do you know
your loved one’s wishes? Who will
speak for you when you’re not able
to?
Join Jewish Family Service 2
p.m. Friday, April 16, via Zoom for
National Healthcare Decisions Day
where you’ll learn what goes into
long-term care planning, including
appointing a health care proxy and
understanding the legalities of a
DNR and how to get difficult con-
versations started.
Speakers will be attorney Howard
H. Collens and Lynn Breuer, a
licensed clinical social worker, cer-
tified health coach and dementia
practitioner who helps older adults
age in place.
Contact the JFS Resource Center
at (248) 592-2313 or resourcecen-
ter@jfsdetroit.org.
In celebration of
Developmental Disabilities
Awareness Month (DDAM),
JVS Human Services reports
participants of its Skill
Building Assistance (SBA)
program continued to vol-
unteer at multiple service
sites throughout the past
year.
Through the SBA pro-
gram, individuals with
disabilities build their skills
and become more integrated
into the community through
meaningful volunteer work
at local nonprofit organiza-
tions.
Due to the pandemic,
many of the program’s ser-
vice sites suffered a decline
in volunteers. SBA partic-
ipants stepped up while
adhering to safety measures
to ensure the health of all
involved.
Under the supervision
of JVS job coaches, SBA
participants volunteer an
average of four hours a day
on weekdays. They com-
plete 10 routes every week
through Meals on Wheels
and prepare sandwiches for
the Salvation Army.
Lynn Breuer
JVS Skill Building participants
prepare sandwiches at the
Salvation Army.
Howard Collens