A registered yoga teacher, David Emerson is the director of yoga services at the Trauma Center, a program of the Justice Resource Institute in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 2003 he collaborated with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, the founder and medical director of the Trauma Center to create the Trauma Center Yoga Program that includes classes and teacher training programs. He currently leads trainings for yoga teachers and clinicians interested in offering trauma-sensitive yoga to their clients.
