Saturday, December 3rd
Yoga Research Talk and Fundraiser
- Boston Studio, 561 Boylston Street, Mezzanine Level
- $20 for the Research Talk, $10 Suggested Donation for the Class
- Research Talk with Dr. Stacy Hunter, Research Director at PureAction.org, 10:30am – 11:30am
- Donation Bikram Yoga Class – 12:00pm – 1:30pm, Taught by Jill Koontz
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About Dr. Stacy Hunter
Dr. Stacy D. Hunter is the research director for Pure Action, Inc., a nonprofit organization devoted to bringing the ancient benefits of yoga to mainstream medicine through research, education and community outreach. In 2011, she received her Ph.D. in Clinical Exercise Physiology from the University of Texas at Austin where she studied the effects of yoga on vascular function in the Cardiovascular Aging Research Laboratory. A Bikram yoga practitioner since 2008, she has now published several studies on the impact of yoga on cardiovascular health and glucose tolerance and has presented her findings in the U.S. and abroad.
She is also currently an affiliate of the University of Texas at Austin, where she continues her work investigating yoga’s potential as a mediator of vascular health. She is also adjunct faculty at Texas State University in the Department of Health and Human Performance.