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About Deborah Metzger: PCYH founder and director, Deborah Metzger, ACSW, 500 Hour RYT, is a certified advanced 500 Hour Kripalu Yoga teacher, a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist, a licensed social worker and holds an MSW from the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to teaching throughout the area, Deborah has led related workshops at Princeton University, in corporate settings such as Johnson & Johnson, Merrill Lynch, L'Oreal, Munich Re America, Summit Bank, DeVry Institute, and State agencies, as well as local community groups, and has assisted programs at the Kripalu Center in Lenox, MA. PCYH is an independently owned and operated affiliate of Kripalu Center. Deborah recently completed the Yoga of the Heart Cardiac and Cancer Certification training and the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Intensive with Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli as well as 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. She founded and served as the first president of Womanspace, Inc., a program for victims of domestic violence. She was Mental Health Planning Coordinator and Liaison to the Department of Health for the Division of Mental Health Services. Prior to thsi, she served as Mercer County Mental Health administrator.