Yoga & Mental Health

This workshop will provide a lecture and chair yoga exercise. The lecture will include the benefit of practicing yoga and meditation as a tool of daily self-care. Chair yoga exercise will introduce participants about simple yoga poses which they can practice daily at home and it can promotes their physical and mental health. 

This workshop will be led by Reiko Fujisawa. Ms. Fujisawa is a a board certified art therapist and NYS licensed creative arts therapist. She graduated from New York University with a Master Degree in Art therapy and has been in the field for more than 15 years. She has worked at New York Presbyterian/ Weill Cornell Medical Center and other hospitals in NYC to provide individual and group psychotherapy, art therapy, CBT, yoga and mindfulness to patients. She has worked with from children to elderly people with a wide range of mental illness. She has facilitated numerous workshops and lectures at including Columbia University for mental health professionals, graduate school students in clinical psychology, and ordinary people and has published a number of articles regarding self- improvement and self-care through art therapy. She is also a yoga instructor.