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 with Patricia Walden and Barbara Benagh.
I have run the 200-hour hatha yoga teacher training since 2002. Together with Deborah Van Handel I developed the 20-hour BeYoga training for those interested in teaching yoga to children K-12.
I have a bachelors and masters of education from Harvard University, and a masters in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.
In addition to teaching yoga, I have also been a section leader for Tal Ben-Shahar’s Positive Psychology lecture course at Harvard and am currently working on several research studies evaluating the effects of yoga on children in schools.
"The Yoga Remedy" by Deborah Cohen (Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Winter 2008)
