Teachers

 

Jeffrey S. Rutstein, Psy.D & Deborah Metzger, MSW, E-RYT500

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Jeffrey S. Rutstein, Psy.D. is a Clinical Psychologist (Lic.#SI 02183) in private practice and Director of the Life Center for Growth & Healing, P.C.. He is a certified Psychoanalyst as well as having advanced training in a variety of Mind/Body approaches to wellness. He has been a student of meditation for over 40 years. In 1994 Dr. Rutstein participated in a five-day professional training program under the direction of Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn. Since then he has taught MBSR to groups and individuals.

Founder and director of the Princeton Center for Yoga & Health, Deborah Metzger, is a certified 500 Hour Professional Level Kripalu Yoga teacher and certified Dharmic Yoga Instructor and Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist, 500 Hour Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance, a licensed social worker and holds an MSW from the University of Pennsylvania. She has completed the Yoga of the Heart: Cardiac and Cancer Certification Training, and additional courses in Structural Yoga Therapy and Reiki. She has trained with Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli and completed the Practicum in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program at UMass.

In addition to teaching throughout the area and at the Princeton Center for Yoga & Health, Deborah has led related workshops in corporate settings such as Johnson & Johnson, Merrill Lynch, L’Oreal, Merck, Summit Bank, Devry Institute, Princeton University, and State agencies, as well as local community groups, and has assisted programs at the Kripalu Center in Lenox, MA.

She founded and served as the first president of Womanspace, Inc., a program for victims of domestic violence and served as Mental Health Planner and Liaison to the Department of Health for the State of New Jersey Division of Mental Health services and Mental Health Administrator for the County of Mercer in New Jersey.

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