NYU Langone Medical CenterHealth Educator for the Department of Integrative Health Programs
Feb. 2009 - Sep. 2013160 East 1st AveIn 2009, I came on board with the MindBody Education & Patient Care Program at NYU Langone Medical Center. This program has since grown into the Department of Integrative Health Programs at NYU Hospital. During my tenure at NYU Langone Medical Center, I provided holistic pre-surgical preparation workshops to over 1,300 patients, in addition to providing extensive staff wellness education and outpatient movement & yoga classes. In addition to my work with in-patients and pre-surgical patients at NYU Hospital, I provided yoga instruction for an IRB-approved research study with breast cancer survivors. Over the past 4 years, I piloted a number of gentle yoga and movement classes for a variety of populations, including those with Parkinson’s disease, Aphasia, Alzheimer’s, and Neurofibromatosis. Delving deeper into important connections between movement and health, I also studied somatic movement therapy with Dr. Martha Eddy, completing an initial training, and am pursuing full registration as a somatic movement educator with the International Somatic Movement Education & Therapy Association (ISMETA). As an extension of my work in the Department of Integrative Health, I was a guest on Dr. Radio and presented a number of lectures on the therapeutic applications of yoga and given yoga for wellness classes at corporations, including Bank of America, West LB, Cotton Inc, Rockefeller University, & Gensler Inc.