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On graduating from the University of Washington in 1960 with a Ph. D. degree in chemical physics, Dr. Robin took a position at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, in the Molecular Spectroscopy research area. Though he published 4 books and over 100 technical papers during the next 28 years, in hindsight, the most fortunate event of that exciting time was having wandered into Judy Freedman's noontime yoga class at the Labs, which proved to be a turning point in his life. On retiring in 1988, he spent time between studying and teaching yoga, and working as Director of Student Research at Science High School in Newark, New Jersey. Enchanted with the idea of writing a book exploring the possible connections between yoga and science, he retired and entered into the full-time practice and teaching of Iyengar Yoga, interspersed with more and more research into how yoga and medicine might be related. His Handbook "A Physiological Handbook for Teachers of Yogasana" is the culmination of that effort; an enlarged and expanded Second Edition is now in production. |
