Nancy O’Brien, who credits therapeutic and restorative yoga with her ongoing recovery from serious illness, is a certified yoga therapist specializing in pain and difficult medical conditions. She is a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance, a certified Integral Yoga Hatha I, Hatha II, and Restorative Yoga teacher and graduate of Therapeutic Yoga Training and Yoga4Arthritis. She is an advisor for the Arthritis Foundation on the Arthritis-Friendly Yoga video and a master trainer of certified yoga teachers in Yoga for Arthritis. She has helped Integral Yoga Institute in New York launch groundbreaking twice-weekly Yoga for Arthritis and Chronic Pain classes taught by Nancy and other Yoga for Arthritis trained, experienced teachers.

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She is a presenter/speaker at the nation’s top-ranked Hospital for Special Surgery. She is devoted to helping yoga become a sustainable component of health care — both for individuals & institutions — through prevention and wellness programming for staff, groups, caregivers and individuals in senior centers, clinics, hospitals, organizations and yoga centers.

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A one-time editor on the New York Daily News Opinions Page, she is also a freelance writer/editor who has published in Yoga Journal’s magazine and online editions, the International Association for Yoga Therapists’ magazine Yoga Therapy Today, Huffington Post and the Daily News. The mother of two and over-the-moon grandmother of three, Nancy lives with her husband in New York City.