What a privilege for us at Kripalu UK
Thursday, January 8th, 2009
ABOUT DANA MOORE
Dana Moore holds a Masters of Arts degree in religion awarded by Yale University Divinity School as well as a Masters of Arts degree. Dana studied counseling psychology at Boston College and received his yoga teacher training at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health and completed the advanced level of training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Healthcare and Society founded by John Kabat-Zinn. He utilizes Kripalu Yoga, mindful living, and counseling to help individuals and groups who have experienced childhood maltreatment and highly stressful events as adults.
Dana first began doing psychotherapy at the Boston Veterans Center in Boston, Massachusetts where he used a mindfulness-based psychotherapy approach to treat combat veterans with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder).
He is a founding member of the Trauma Center Yoga Program, where he continues to serve as staff member, and is a faculty member of the Trauma Center Professional Training Institute at the Justice Research Institute in Brookline, Massachusetts. Along with his ongoing classes he facilitates workshops at Kripalu USA imparting to others the great gift of the work he is developing. This is Dana’s first visit to the UK, what a privilege it is for us at Kripalu UK to welcome him.
Dana is a Benedictine oblate of Our Lady of Guadalupe Abbey, a Catholic monastery.
To read more about the tremendous work of the Justice Research Institute visit the website: www.traumacenter.org.
We are in for a wonderful experience.