Faculty and staff of the Department of Medicine (Cardiology) took part in International Yoga Day. Front row, from right: Annapoorna S. Kini, MD; Lori B. Croft, MD, Associate Professor; and Joseph M. Sweeny, MD, Assistant Professor.
Mount Sinai Heart faculty and staff recently participated in International Yoga Day at Guggenheim Pavilion, with multiple sessions starting at 7:30 am. However, the enthusiasm for the practice goes well beyond a one-day event. The organizer, Annapoorna S. Kini, MD, Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at The Mount Sinai Hospital, and the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Professor of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, practices yoga herself and recently published a list of recommended yoga and meditation techniques in the CRT Times, including a 10-minute sequence specifically for physicians in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory.
Dr. Kini says, “At Mount Sinai, we strongly advocate yoga and meditation to counter musculoskeletal discomfort, to relieve stress, and to maintain focus and concentration.”
