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Carol KrucoffCarol Krucoff, E-RYT 500, is a yoga therapist, fitness expert and author.  As a Yoga Therapist at Duke Integrative Medicine–part of the Duke University Health System in Durham, North Carolina– she creates individualized yoga practices for people with health challenges.  Carol co-directs the Therapeutic Yoga for Seniors teacher training, designed to help yoga instructors work safely and effectively with older adults and teaches yoga at Duke University’s Center for Living. 

Her newest book is “Healing Yoga for Neck and Shoulder Pain:  Easy, Effective Practices for Releasing Tension & Relieving Pain,” (New Harbinger 2010), and she is creator of the audio home practice CD, “Healing Moves Yoga.”    She is co-author, with her cardiologist husband, Mitchell Krucoff, MD, of  ”Healing Moves:  How to Cure, Relieve and Prevent Common Ailments with Exercise,” now in its third edition. 

Carol has practiced yoga for more than 30 years and is grateful to have taken classes and workshops with a broad array of senior teachers from around the U.S. and India.   She is a graduate of Esther Myers’ Yoga Teacher Training and Nischala Devi’s Yoga of the Heart Cardiac & Cancer Teacher Training, is a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists and serves on the Peer Review Board for the International Journal of Yoga Therapy.  In addition to her work at Duke, Carol teaches yoga at a senior residential community near her home in Chapel Hill—where her students are all in their 70s and 80s, including her 84-year-old mother. Her passion for sharing the gifts of yoga with older adults began in 2001, when she created and taught a yoga program for seniors enrolled in a Gerontology Rehabilitation program at the Durham, NC, Veterans Administration Medical Center.

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Teaching Yoga to Seniors: Essential Considerations to Enhance Safety and Reduce Risk in a Uniquely Vulnerable Age Group

by Carol Krucoff on Aug 27, 2010 (0) Comments

Seniors age 65 and older represent the fastest-growing sector of the population and, like many Americans, are increasingly drawn to yoga. This presents both an extraordinary opportunity and a serious challenge for yoga instructors who must be both a resource and gardians of safety for this uniquely vulnerable group.

Third Annual Symposium for Yoga Therapy and Research (SYTAR) March 5-8, 2009 Los Angeles, CA

by Carol Krucoff on Dec 02, 2008 (0) Comments

Dear Friends,
The International Association of Yoga Therapists (www.iayt.org) is presenting the third annual Symposium for Yoga Therapy and Research (SYTAR); the premier professional forum in the field of Yoga therapy is designed for experienced yoga teachers, yoga therapists and those involved with health care and Yoga research. SYTAR 2009 is geared for yoga professionals to [...]

Healing Moves Yoga CD

by Carol Krucoff on Nov 11, 2008 (0) Comments

In response to my students requests for help in establishing a home practice, I have just released a new CD called Healing Moves Yoga. The 72-minute practice is divided into five sections, so you can do just one section, two, three, four or all five, depending on your time. Two sections are completely restorative: Centering [...]

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