Anne Pitman (M.Sc., C-IAYT, Pain Care Certified) is the Co-Director of The School of Embodied Yoga Therapy, the Co-Author of Yoga Therapy Across the Cancer Care Continuum and an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa.  She is a Research Consultant, Program Coordinator and Certified Yoga Therapist at the Ottawa Integrative Cancer Centre, offering evidence-informed one-on-one care for those experiencing shock, grief, anxiety, depression, treatment side effects, trauma and persistent pain. Her Year to Breathe program is a year-long svādhyāya practice for yoga practitioners, teachers and therapists to befriend their own grief and mortality, resource a love of life and widen their availability and authenticity in professional practice. At Bad Dog Studio, Anne offers slow inquiry-based, non-insistent practice, workshops and co-regulated, compassionate care for the multitude of human shatterings and life’s mysteries. She regularly speaks at medical, complementary healthcare and yoga therapy conferences on diagnosis shock, the unrecognized grief of cancer and the tender practice of accompanying people facing their dying days. See more at www.annepitman.ca

Leigh Leibel, MSc, PhD(c), C-IAYT, is a clinical researcher in integrative oncology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She earned a Master of Science in Yoga Therapy from S-VYASA University, India, where she is completing her PhD, and trained in Cancer Prevention and Control at the NIH/NCI. Co-editor of Yoga Therapy Across the Cancer Care Continuum and contributor to The Comprehensive Integrative Oncology Textbook (Elsevier, forthcoming December 2025) and Yoga Therapy: Foundations, Tools, and Practice, she serves on the Board of Trustees of the Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO), co-hosts the SIO Integrative Oncology Talk podcast, and co-founded its Yoga Special Interest Group. Internationally, she works with Project PINK BLUE in Nigeria to advance cancer care and survivorship in Africa.

Yogacharini Lee Majewski, MA, C-IAYT, Yoga Chikitsa Acharya, an author, researcher, educator and yoga therapist, is a founding director of Yoga For Health Institute (www.yogaforhealth.institute ) a non-for-profit organization located in Toronto Canada. She co-authored Yoga Therapy as a Whole-Person Approach to Health, which was accepted as a textbook at some IAYT accredited yoga therapy courses. Her new book – “Spirituality in Yoga Bridging - the Sacred and the Human” is available for pre-order and will be fully released in November this year.

Lee works individually or with groups, offering specialized programs to complement conventional treatments for cancer and psychosomatic chronic diseases. She lives and works in Toronto, Canada. She can be contacted via email – [email protected]

Dr. Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani is the son and spiritual successor of Swami Gitananda Giri and one of the world’s foremost authorities on Yoga and Yoga Therapy. He heads ISCM where Yoga and Music therapies are integrated seamlessly with Modern Healthcare in SBV, one of India's top 100 universities. A medical doctor, professor, musician, and author of over 30 books and 300 papers, he integrates classical yoga with modern science, creating a clear, evidence-based understanding of yogic healing. He serves on various committees of the Ministry of Ayush, Government of India and is a consultant to the WHO Collaborative Center in Traditional Medicine (Yoga), New Delhi. www.sbvu.ac.in/iscm