Carol Krucoff, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT, is a yoga instructor at Duke Integrative Medicine in Durham, North Carolina, where she creates individualized yoga practices for people with health challenges.   An award-winning journalist and frequent contributor to Yoga Journal, Carol is the author of several books including “Yoga Sparks:  108 Easy Practices for Stress Relief in a Minute or Less” and “Yoga for Neck and Shoulder Pain.”   Creator of an audio home practice CD, and co-creator of the DVD “Relax into Yoga,” she is also co-author, with Kimberly Carson, of "Relax into Yoga for Seniors:  A Six Week Program for Strength, Balance, Flexibility and Pain Relief." 

   Carol is co-director of the Integrative Yoga for Seniors teacher training, which is designed to help yoga instructors safely and effectively adapt the practice to older bodies, minds and spirits.  She also spent a decade studying martial arts, and as a second-degree black belt in karate and Sensei, she taught martial arts for four years.  Carol has practiced yoga for more than 40 years.   For more information, please visit her websites:  www.healingmoves.com  and www.yoga4seniors.com