Dr. Panico is a board certified psychiatrist with 42 years of clinical experience and over twenty years experience with yoga based mind body therapies in the treatment of chronic illness . He has practiced yoga and meditation since the early 1970s. He is a principal trainer and teacher for Integral Yoga and trains teachers for Sivananda Yoga. He has taught mind-body medicine to healthcare practitioners in many venues and has been influential in bringing mind body medicine into the practice of contemporary medicine.