Bio
Deborah Cohen is the Mind-Body and Positive Psychology trainer for the University of Minnesota Psychiatry Department's Integrative Wellness Program. She develops workshops, trainings and classes and has taught in the psychiatric in-patient and adolescent intensive outpatient clinics. She teaches non-clinical clients including classes that form part of an Integrative Psychiatry elective for the Psychiatry residents. She recently ran a pilot training for mental health OTs to teach trauma-informed yoga to psychiatric inpatients.
Debbie teaches yoga and Positive Psychology for clinical and non-clinical populations. She has developed and runs a 6-week Positive Psychology class for the Marsh's Mindfulness Based Living Program and she teaches yoga classes locally in Minnesota. From 2011-2016, she ran a yoga program in the Boston Public Schools and has been involved in yoga research efforts demonstrating the efficacy of yoga in school settings.
Debbie has been teaching hatha yoga since 1996 and first taught Positive Psychology at Harvard University as part of the faculty for Tal Ben-Shahar's Psychology 1504 classes in 2006 and 2008. She taught with Tal again at Kripalu Yoga Center for a Certificate in Positive Psychology course. She has taught hatha yoga for twenty-four years and taught English before that for eight years. She continues to offer the Yoga Alliance registered 200-hr hatha yoga teacher training, which she has offered on and off since 2002.
