About Bo Forbes
Bo Forbes is a yoga teacher, integrative yoga therapist, and clinical psychologist with over eighteen years of clinical experience in mind-body healing. She is the founder of Elemental Yoga, director of the Elemental Yoga Mind-Body Teacher Training Program, and founder and director of the Center for Integrative Yoga Therapeutics™, established in 2006, which offers innovative mind-body yoga therapeutics to clients in the Boston area.
Bo has a master's degree in Social Sciences and a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology. Her background at the University of Chicago includes training in Biopsychology and Sleep Disorders, Behavioral Medicine, and Stress Management, which informs her teaching, private work, and clinical supervision. Bo has conducted training seminars for health care organizations and professionals, and has consulted to corporations, schools, and health care agencies throughout the United States.
In addition, Bo has developed Integrative Yoga Therapeutics™, an innovative approach to issues such as anxiety, insomnia, depression, chronic pain disorders, fertility, and more. Integrative Yoga Therapeutics combines the classical elements of yoga with the latest advances in mind-body medicine. This approach recently earned Elemental Yoga its designation as an approved sponsor for continuing education for social workers through the National Association of Social Workers. Elemental Yoga is also approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.
Bo’s articles have been featured in Yoga Journal, Body and Soul, and the International Journal of Yoga Therapy, and she consults to several magazines, including Yoga Journal and Natural Health. She is regularly featured in the media, including a documentary on yoga for insomnia. Bo teaches nationally, including Yoga Journal conferences, as well as yoga centers such as Kripalu and Omega, and other yoga studios throughout the country. She is currently in the process of creating Elemental Yoga Europe, bringing her individual work in yoga therapeutics and performance enhancement, as well as her workshops in Integrative Yoga Therapeutics, to countries including Italy and Belgium.