Yoga Pilots Podcast

Dr. Loren Fishman has been practicing yoga for forty years, he trained for a year with yoga master B.K.S. Iyengar and is currently Medical Director of Manhattan Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr. Fishman is a professor at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and has written and edited more than eighty academic articles and books on rehabilitative medicine. Dr. Fishman combines his significant depth of knowledge in medicine and yoga to treat patients; he has also completed clinical studies that support yoga for healing. In this podcast, Dr. Fishman is joined by colleague and yoga therapist Gabriella Barnstone. We discuss: Western medicine, yoga as an accompanying or alternative therapy and the clinical evidence supporting yoga. Yoga for Osteoporosis. Yoga for Scoliosis. Yoga for back pain – The importance of the diagnosis, and how yoga can be therapy for a variety of back ailments. Yoga and Weight Loss – Yoga postures to curb your appetite and how to use yoga and improve your reactio