Kimberly Carson, MPH, E-RYT, is a health educator at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), in Portland, Oregon, specializing in the therapeutic use of yoga and mindfulness meditation for seniors and people with medical challenges. She currently offers classes to cardiac, oncology, and chronic pain patients. Kimberly has developed and taught yoga programs being researched at Duke University Medical Center and OHSU. The
Yoga of Awareness program, developed by Kimberly and her husband Jim, has been shown in research trials to significantly reduce pain and fatigue in women with metastatic breast cancer, breast cancer survivors, as well as women with fibromyalgia. For more information, please visit her website: www.mindfulyogaworks.com.
Carol Krucoff, E-RYT, is a yoga therapist at Duke Integrative Medicine in Durham, North Carolina, where she offers individual sessions, workshops, and group classes for people with health challenges. An award-winning health journalist, Carol served as founding editor of
The Washington Post's Health Section and her articles have appeared in numerous national publications including
The New York Times,
Yoga Journal, and
Reader's Digest. She is author of several books including "
Yoga Sparks: 108 Easy Practices for Stress Relief in a Minute or Less" and "
Healing Yoga for Neck and Shoulder Pain," and is creator of the audio home practice CD,
Healing Moves Yoga. For more information, please visit her website: www.healingmoves.com.
Kimberly & Carol are co-directors of
Yoga for Seniors, a network of yoga teachers dedicated to making yoga practices appropriate and available for older adults. They are co-directors of the
Therapeutic Yoga for Seniors Teacher Trainings and co-creators of the DVD, "
Relax into Yoga for Seniors." For more information, please visit their website: www.yoga4seniors.com.
Foreword writer
Mitchell W. Krucoff, MD, is professor of medicine/cardiology at Duke University Medical Center and Director of the Cardiovascular Devices Unit at the Duke Clinical Research Institute. He is internationally recognized for his pioneering research in computer-assisted heart monitoring, new modalities of coronary revascularization, and cardiovascular applications of spiritual and complementary therapies. Author of more than 250 publications in the cardiology literature and book chapters in medical texts, Mitchell is Senior Editor of the
Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Sri Satya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences in Puttaparthi, India, since its construction in 1990, and is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and the Society of Coronary Angiography and Intervention. Mitchell is a special government employee of the United States Food and Drug Administration, from whom he received a Distinguished Award for his tenure on the Circulatory Devices Advisory Panel. He has been married to Carol Krucoff since 1974 and they have two adult children.
Afterword writer
Jim Carson, PhD, is a long time student of Swami Muktananda and former yogic monk who has taught the practices and philosophy of yoga worldwide for over 30 years. Now a clinical health psychologist and associate professor of anesthesiology at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), Jim is applying his expertise to the development and evaluation of yoga and meditation-based clinical treatments. He has worked extensively with patients suffering from persistent pain, including those with cancer, fibromyalgia and multiple sclerosis. While Jim was on faculty at Duke, he and Kimberly developed the Yoga of Awareness program and completed research trials with metastatic breast cancer patients and with survivors of early stage breast cancer. During his tenure at OHSU, a successful research trial has been completed using Yoga of Awareness for fibromyalgia. Jim and Kimberly together developed the first mindfulness program for couples as well as the first loving-kindness meditation program for medical patients.
