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Associate Professor
University of Idaho
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Rajal Cohen is the Scientific Consultant for The Poise Project. She completed her B.A. from Wesleyan University in 2002 and her M.S. and Ph.D. at Penn State University in 2005 and 2008. Her degrees are in psychology, with a graduate minor in kinesiology. After a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Neurology at Oregon Health and Science University, she obtained a faculty position at the University of Idaho, where she was tenured and promoted in 2018. She runs the Mind in Movement Laboratory, where she trains graduate and undergraduate students to do rigorous studies of the mind-body connection. She is a member of the team that created the AlexanderTechniqueScience.com website (which receives over 1000 visits per month). She has published over 30 scientific articles, which have cumulatively been cited over 2200 times. Two of her peer-reviewed articles (Becker et al, 2018 and 2021) are direct investigations of Alexander technique, and several others (Baer et al 2019 and 2022, Cohen et al 2016 and 2020, Cacciatore et al 2020) investigate AT-related concepts. She was certified as an AT teacher in 1997 with Daria Okugawa in Charlottesville, VA.
