Nancy O’Brien, who credits therapeutic and restorative yoga with her ongoing recovery from serious illness, is a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance, a certified Integral Yoga Hatha I teacher and graduate of Therapeutic Yoga Training and Yoga4Arthritis. She specializes in imparting the hope and healing power of yoga to people with medical issues. Committed to bringing yoga to those who are not able to access it themselves due to illness, age or finances, she is working toward helping to make yoga a sustainable component of health care.
The one-time editor on the New York Daily News Opinions Page is also a freelance writer/editor who has published in Yoga Journal, Huffington Post and the Daily News. The mother of two grown sons, Nancy lives with her husband in New York City. (photo by Sally Morrow)
• World Trade Center Clinic, Ambulatory Care Pavilion
• Mind-Body Program (Medical Psychiatry clinic), Ambulatory Care Pavilion (ongoing)
• Department of Psychiatry’s Assertive Community Treatment program (ACT)
• Parkinson’s Support Group
• Restorative Yoga (11:15 a.m., second Tuesday of each month)
• Yoga for Arthritis and Chronic Pain workshop (ongoing)
• Yoga for the Third Age (Elder Yoga) workshop
• Steering Committee Member, Gentle and Restorative Teachers Collaborative
• Hatha I
• Meditation and Chronic Pain
* Movement and Meditation
• Mind-Body Approaches to Pain
• Stress workshops at annual conventions
• Yoga and meditation workshops (ongoing)
• Outcome-based health and wellness programming Read more>
• Weekly chair yoga (ongoing)
• Chair yoga
• Sessions on the units, including at bedside and in the dayrooms