About: Deborah Cohen Bio
I have been teaching hatha yoga since 1996. I trained first at the World Yoga Center with Ann Farbman-Brown in New York, then in 2001 at SVYASA, a yoga rehabilitation center and research institute in South India. In 2010 I trained at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. I currently study hatha yoga with Patricia Walden and Barbara Benagh and mindfulness practices with Cheri Huber's Zen Monastery Peace Center. My practice is most strongly influenced by Gurumayi Chidvilasananda of the Siddha yoga tradition.
I have run the Core Yoga teacher training program, a Yoga Alliance registered 200-hour hatha yoga teacher training since 2002. In July 2011, I began training teachers in the Core Yoga in Schools K-12 curriculum which includes a Body-Mind course for grades 6-12. This course will be offered for the first time in September 2011 to juniors and seniors at the Jeremiah E. Burke High School.
I have written other yoga curricula for children including work for Streta Yoga in Needham, Arlington High School, and Sat Bir Khalsa's early research efforts studying the effects of yoga on children in schools, work used in the first year of Kripalu's Yoga in Schools research project. In addition, Deborah Van Handel and I jointly wrote the BeYoga K-12 curriculum.
I have a bachelors and masters of education from Harvard University, and a masters in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.
I have a strong commitment to bringing yoga to schools, work I began in 2003. As an outgrowth of this commitment, I have coordinated efforts with researcher Naomi Steiner, teaching yoga to Boston elementary school students identified with ADHD and autism-spectrum challenges, and I have worked as the lead teacher in
