Erga Lemish

Erga Lemish is a second-year doctoral student in counseling psychology in the Department of Counseling, School, and Educational Psychology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Erga is particularly interested in treatments for psychosocial disorders that focus on embodied self-regulation, including the incorporation of yoga and mindfulness techniques. She served as the lead research assistant for the yoga-in-the-schools case in the Encinitas (California) Union School District, and is currently working on her qualifying paper, a qualitative examination of the experiences of Encinitas school personnel while implementing the program at the time of the lawsuit.