Carol Krucoff, RYT, is a Yoga Therapist at Duke Integrative Medicine in Durham, North Carolina, where she co-directs the Therapeutic Yoga for Seniors teacher training program and creates individualized yoga programs for people with health challenges. A graduate of Esther Myers' Yoga Teacher Training and Nischala Devi's Yoga of the Heart Cardiac & Cancer Teacher Training, Carol has been practicing yoga for more than 30 years. She teaches yoga at Duke University's Center for Living and created and taught a yoga program for seniors enrolled in a gerontology rehabilitation program at the Durham Veterans Administration Medical Center.Carol is also a health journalist who 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, Reader's Digest and Yoga Journal. She is co-author, with her Duke cardiologist husband Mitchell Krucoff, of "Healing Moves: How to Cure, Relieve and Prevent Common Ailments with Exercise". Carol is certified as a personal trainer by the American Council on Exercise and spent a decade studying martial arts. As a second-degree black belt in karate and Sensei, she taught martial arts for four years.
Kimberly Carson, MPH, RYT is a health educator specializing in tailoring yoga and meditation for people living with medical concerns. Kimberly taught yoga at Duke University's Center for Living for over 10 years and now co-directs Therapeutic Yoga for Seniors teacher training program at Duke Integrative Medicine. Also at Duke, Kimberly co-authored and served as yoga therapist on research protocols using yoga and meditation for various medical conditions (e.g., chronic low back pain, metastatic breast cancer pain, menopausal symptoms in cancer survivors). Kimberly has recently relocated to Portland, Oregon where she teaches Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction as developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn at Oregon Health and Science University. She is also working with Sarahjoy Marsh to develop a Yoga for Wellness program which offers specialized programs for students living with conditions such as chronic pain, heart disease, cancer, and osteoporosis (as well as other medical concerns of aging). Kimberly is certified as a teacher of Kripalu Yoga, pre & post natal Integral Yoga, as well as Cardiac Yoga as taught by Nischala Devi.
