Yoga Therapist
Carol Krucoff is a yoga instructor/therapist who specializes in therapeutic applications of yoga for medical concerns. She creates individualized yoga practices for people with health challenges. A frequent contributor to Yoga Journal magazine and founding editor of the Washington Post’s Health section, Krucoff is co-author of Healing Moves: How to Cure, Relieve and Prevent Common Ailments with Exercise. She is co-director of the Yoga Therapy Intensive, Teaching Yoga to Seniors, held annually at Duke Integrative Medicine to train yoga teachers how to work safely and effectively with older adults.
A registered yoga teacher with the Yoga Alliance and a certified personal trainer with the American Council on Exercise, Krucoff is a graduate of Esther Myers' Yoga Teacher Training and Nischala Joy Devi's Yoga of the Heart Cardiac and Cancer Certification Training, which focuses on adapting yoga for people with heart disease, cancer, and other life-threatening illnesses. She has practiced yoga for more than 30 years and is grateful to have taken classes and workshops with a broad array of senior teachers from around the United States and in India.
A member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, Krucoff is on the Peer Review Board for the International Journal of Yoga Therapy. She also teaches yoga at Duke University's Center for Living and at a senior residential community near her home in Chapel Hill, where her students are in their 70s and 80s. Her passion for sharing the gifts of yoga with older adults began in 2001, when she created and taught a yoga program for seniors enrolled in a Gerontology Rehabilitation program at the Durham VA Medical Center.
Krucoff also spent a decade studying martial arts. She earned a second-degree black belt and the honored title of sensei and taught karate for four years. Before moving to North Carolina in 1988, Krucoff spent 10 years as a reporter and editor at the Washington Post. An award-winning journalist, she has published hundreds of articles in a wide variety of national media outlets including the New York Times, Reader's Digest, Prevention, Glamour, and Health. She is creator of the audio home yoga practice CD, Healing Moves Yoga.
