Kimberly Carson

Kimberly Carson, MPH, C-IAYT, is a health educator and yoga therapist at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), in Portland, Oregon, specializing in the therapeutic use of yoga and mindfulness meditation for seniors and people with medical challenges. She teaches yoga classes, Stress Reduction Breath by Breath, as well as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction at OHSU’s Knight Cancer Institute, Cardiac and Physical Rehabilitation, Internal Medicine, Women's Health and March Wellness as well as Terwilliger Plaza Retirement Community. Kimberly is currently the program coordinator of Integrative Medicine services at OHSU's Knight Cancer Institute. Kimberly has developed and taught yoga programs being researched at Duke University Medical Center and OHSU. The Yoga of Awareness program (now known as Mindful Yoga), developed by Kimberly and her husband Jim, has been shown in research trials to significantly reduce pain and fatigue in women with metastatic breast cancer, breast cancer survivors, as well as women with fibromyalgia. Kimberly frequently consults on National Institutes of Health (NIH) clinical research trials evaluating yoga and mindfulness interventions. Most recently, she has been protocol advisor for trials integrating mindfulness and yoga for a opiod-dependent chronic pain patients, metastatic breast cancer patients and MS patients. Kimberly is the co-author on 20+ peer-reviewed articles. She co-directs national yoga teacher training programs focused on health challenges specific to aging as well as cancer and chronic pain at Duke, OHSU, and Kripalu Center for Yoga for Health. For more information, visit her website www.mindfulyogaworks.com