She is the 2016 recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Service. She has been a certified therapeutic recreation specialist for over twenty-five years. Lyn has practiced in early intervention, physical rehabilitation, and psychiatric hospitals for twenty years prior to getting her doctorate in adult professional and community education at Texas State and teaching there. She is a certified Lakshmi Voelker chair yoga teacher and two-hundred-hour integrative yoga therapist. Her yoga and meditation research is dedicated to helping persons with Alzheimer’s disease and those who love and care for them; youth with autism spectrum disorder; and Wounded Warriors on the water engaging in paddleboard yoga.