Yoga Pilots Podcast

Mel Robin is the author of a 1500 page book titled, A Handbook for Yogasana Teachers, The Incorporation of Neuroscience, Physiology, and Anatomy into the Practice, he is about to publish a more comprehensive eBook in 2016. Mel has practiced yoga, studied and taught Iyengar yoga for the past thirty years. Mel started practicing yoga at age 50 and became passionate about the relationship between what is experienced in the physical postures of yoga (asana) and functions of the body, mind and emotions as put forth by western medicine. Before learning yoga, Mel was Captain of the Gymnastics team at UCLA and worked as a Chemist for Bell Labs for 28 years. Mel combines his intellect, experience and knowledge of yoga to bring a western medical explanation to yoga postures in reasonable and logical ways. In this Podcast we discuss: Balancing in yoga postures Mental balance allows balancing in a yoga postures. To balance on one foot in a yoga posture focus on the ankle. Freeze other body joints and keep the ankle join