Founder and director of the Princeton Center for Yoga & Health, Deborah Metzger, is a certified advanced Kripalu Yoga teacher and certified Dharmic Yoga Instructor and Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist, 500 Hour Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance, a licensed social worker and holds an MSW from the University of Pennsylvania. She has completed the Yoga of the Heart: Cardiac and Cancer Certification Training, and additional courses in Structural Yoga Therapy and Reiki. In addition, she has studied with Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Program 7 Day Residential Retreat and the 9 Day Summer Intensive Practicum with Melissa Blacker and Florence Meleo and co-leads MBSR and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy programs at the Princeton Center for Yoga & Health. She is currently enrolled in the 2 year Hakomi mindfulness based psychotherapy training program.
In addition to teaching throughout the area and at the Princeton Center for Yoga & Health, Deborah has led related workshops in corporate settings such as Johnson & Johnson, Merrill Lynch, L’Oreal, Merck, Summit Bank, Devry Institute, Princeton University, and State agencies, as well as local community groups, and has assisted programs at the Kripalu Center in Lenox, MA.
She founded and served as the first president of Womanspace, Inc., a program for victims of domestic violence and served as Mental Health Planner and Liaison to the Department of Health for the State of New Jersey Division of Mental Health services and Mental Health Administrator for the County of Mercer in New Jersey.
About The Princeton Center for Yoga & Health:
Featured as one of the top 5 traditional yoga studios in New Jersey by NJ Life magazine, and the first studio of its kind in our area, PCYH is a yoga & holistic health center.
Welcoming all traditions, PCYH offers a variety of yoga classes, meditation, holistic workshops, stress reduction programs(including MBSR), drum circles, teacher trainings.
The Center offers a variety of yoga, meditation and holistic lifestyle classes and workshops.. In two spacious and light filled studios, PCYH offers instruction in: yoga (all traditions welcome - Kripalu, Astanga/Power, Hot, Anusara,, Vinyasa Krama, Classical Hatha,). Specialty classes include: Gentle Yoga for Cancer Survivors, Yoga for Stress Reduction, Yoga for Kids, Mom/Baby and Pre-and Post-Natal Yoga, Belly Dance. Also offered: meditation, Holistic Bodywork: including therapeutic massage, chiropractic care and Structural Yoga Therapy, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy; and Ayurvedic consultations, stress management; music and dance programs; living holistically workshops. Monthly concerts, Drumming Circles, Kirtan; workshops and teacher trainings. Approximately 40 classes per week --morning, lunchtime, evening, and weekends. Gift certificates available for all services and programs. Corporate wellness programs. Work exchange and volunteer opportunities. Smoke and alcohol free environment.
Ask about our work-exchange opportunities, corporate programs, private sessions, gift certificates, workshop/office space rental. Ample parking.
Hometown: Princeton area, NJ United States
Occupation: Yoga Teacher/Studio Owner
Interests: Yoga, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, community of like-minded people.
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