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H. Paul Zeiger, Ph.D. has over 45 years experience in the fields of electrical engineering and computer science, in both academia and industry. He has been Chairman of the Computer Science Department, University of Colorado at Boulder, a Technical Director at USWEST, and has done research, product development, and consulting for various computer software companies. Most recently he was Executive Vice President of The Arizona Senior Academy, a Tucson, Arizona educational organization devoted to lifelong learning and service.

Paul has over 500 hours of training as a yoga teacher, mostly in the Anusara™ tradition, including therapeutic yoga, and has taught classes since 1990. Since being diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, he has developed yoga-based exercise programs adapted specifically for PD. He teaches classes through the Parkinson Association of the Rockies, as well as working with individual students. He is spokesperson for the 28 storytellers in the book The Proud Hands of Parkinson’s. His photo and a quote appear on the Phinney Foundation website featuring daily victories over PD: Davis Phinney Foundation

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Carolyn Allen Zeiger, Ph.D. has over 40 years experience in the fields of clinical, organizational and health psychology. She was Vice President of The Athena Group, a consulting and training firm in Denver, CO, and Clinical Director of Comprehensive Psychological Services Group, a private multi-disciplinary mental health clinic that she founded in Boulder, CO. She has also held adjunct faculty positions in the Psychology Departments of the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Arizona. With her sister, Stephanie Allen, she is the author of Doing It All Isn’t Everything: A Woman’s Guide to Harmony and Empowerment.

Carolyn founded a Parkinson’s caregivers’ support group in Denver, and assists her husband Paul in teaching yoga to people with Parkinson’s Disease. Carolyn is a licensed psychologist in the state of Colorado, an adjunct faculty member at University of Denver, and a certified practitioner of Jin Shin Jyutsu®. Both Zeigers have a long history of practicing and teaching meditation.

Paul and Carolyn are on the exercise staff for the Parkinson Association of the Rockies. They have presented on PD and exercise, and on caregiving, in a variety of venues including support groups and PD conferences and seminars in Colorado and around the country. They also have given presentations to graduate and undergraduate students, at various universities, which are aimed at giving an overall understanding of the disorder.

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