Healthy Living Faculty

Each of Kripalu’s Healthy Living Programs is taught by an outstanding team of skilled health and wellness professionals who draw on many years of experience working with people to turn their health around through integrated approaches to healthy living.

	Susan Lord, MD, is an integrative physician who specializes in complementary and alternative medicine using mind-body approaches, energy medicine, functional medicine, nutrition, and lifestyle counseling. A graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, she is the former director of nutrition programs for the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington DC.
	Annie B. Kay MS, RD, RYT, is an integrative dietitian, author, and certified professional-level Kripalu yoga teacher. She is a former director of the osteoporosis awareness program at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. For more than ten years, Annie has advocated science-based mind-body health in the national media, at conferences and workshops, and through her book, Every Bite Is Divine.
	Kathie Madonna Swift, MS, RD, is a registered dietitian and one of the country’s foremost nutritionists. Currently the Nutrition Director for Hyman Integrative Therapies, LLC, in Lenox, Massachusetts, she serves as a nutritionist for both the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington DC and Kripalu Center.
	John Bagnulo, PhD, has a doctorate in food and nutrition sciences and a master’s degree in public health. For more than 13 years John has been helping individuals realize their full health potential through a whole foods, plant-based approach. He is also a current faculty member of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington DC.
	Janna Delgado a certified professional-level Kripalu Yoga teacher and personal trainer, teaches health and wellness courses for Kripalu’s Retreat and Renewal and Healthy Living programs. Janna also offers consultations in the Healing Arts Department and serves on the faculty of the Institute for Extraordinary Living.
	Aruni Nan Futuronsky, a life coach and senior teacher, has been teaching since 1969 and has served Kripalu for more than 17 years. She is a certified professional-level Kripalu Yoga teacher and a program advisor for Healthy Living’s Integrative Weight Loss program.
	Maria Sirois, PsyD, is an inspirational speaker, consultant, and lecturer, and a licensed psychologist. Her lectures and workshops combine powerful and moving anecdotes with research to bring us all to the place we most want to be: moved to tears, joy, and passionate action.
	Deb Morgan has 20 years of experience in the world of natural foods, which includes opening two restaurants and teaching cooking classes. She was a resident of Kripalu for many years and is presently the Executive Chef of the Kripalu kitchen.
	Grace Jull, MA, LMT, has been teaching experiential workshops internationally for more than 20 years. She is a senior faculty member at Kripalu. Her popular CD Turning Water into Words and accompanying training are widely used for supporting yoga teachers in developing languaging skills.
	Randal Williams, MA, is a long-term Kripalu staff member and Kripalu Yoga teacher trainer who earned his graduate degree in Jungian and yogic psychology. An inspiring teacher, he is the producer of the acclaimed CD Gentle Yoga: Blade of Grass.
	Susan Maier-Moul, MA, editor-in-chief of The Magazine of Yoga, an online journal that promotes engaged everyday life as the key principle of freedom. Her workshops and lectures focus on nonesoteric practice, highlighting the everyday benefits of yoga as an integrated physical and philosophical approach to life’s challenges and rewards.
	Jim Conzo, MS, CNS, is a certified nutrition specialist whose expertise lies in uncovering the source of health problems in food and other lifestyle issues. A former commercial photographer, he has seen more than 7,000 nutrition clients and given hundreds of lectures.