Deb Lister, Director Emeritus, owned the Living Yoga Center for 10 years and has worked in the health and wellness field for twenty years. Her yoga training includes advanced studies with Beryl Bender Birch (Astanga), Shiva Rea (Vinyasa), and Ana Forrest (Forrest Method). She is a licensed Occupational Therapist and practices yoga-based occupational therapy in hospital-based acute and rehab settings, as well as with her private clients. She has presented at several state and local conferences regarding the use of yoga therapeutics in occupational therapy with various disease conditions, such as cancer and strokes (CVA). She encourages her students to explore and experience the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of themselves through their yoga practice and her patients to use the inherent healing qualities of yoga to maximize their potential to live functionally and fully.

Deb provided the books which are now housed at the Living Yoga Center in the Deb Lister Lending Library.  Deb continues to be of council to Steve & Sharon and will perhaps offer workshops at the LYC when she travels from her new home in Idaho to be with her family in CU.