Dr. Eden Goldman, D.C., C-IAYT, E-RYT500 is an international Yoga, mindfulness, and wellness lifestyle expert. A Los Angeles-based Sports Chiropractor, IAYT-Certified Yoga Therapist, former writer for LA Yoga Magazine, and current Yoga teacher for the Team USA Soccer USWNT’s wellness staff, Eden is a Yoga and Mind-Body Health Professor at The University Of Southern California. He is one of the only Yoga teachers in the world to have directed Yoga Teacher Training Programs at multiple Universities (USC and Loyola Marymount University) where his programs have been called a Yoga Alliance “Gold Standard” program. He is also co-author of Yoga Therapy and Integrative Medicine: Where Ancient Science Meets Modern Medicine and author of The Secret Art of Yoga Assists.

In his early life, Eden was raised in a household of Kriya yogins and devotees of Paramahansa Yogananda and Mahavatar Babaji, along with influences from the Bhakti Yoga tradition of Maharajji Neem Karoli Baba and Baba Ram Dass. He was personally trained as a Doctor and Yoga Therapist by Dr. Craig Liebenson (Team Chiropractor for the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers), Dr. Ira Schneider (Team Chiropractor for the California State University Northridge Athletic Teams) and Dr. Larry Payne (Founding President of The International Association Of Yoga Therapists) in the lineage of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya and TKV Desikachar.

Professionally, Dr. Goldman’s work as an IRB-approved researcher at USC is advancing the field of Yoga and includes scientific studies on Yoga Teacher Training as a preventive and lifestyle medicine, Yoga Therapy’s effect on college students’ QoL and overall health, Yoga and dance’s effect on adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Yoga’s role in pulmonary hygiene for adolescents, and a personal scientific quest to find the best version of sirsasana/headstand that provides the least amount of pressure on the discs of the cervical spine. In the private sector, Dr. Goldman is the Director of Yoga Doctors, Inc. a higher education company that specializes in continuing education credits for doctors and therapists, and he is the Owner of Meditating Mascots, a Yoga and mindfulness company that creates inspired mascot-related plush toys and University-related products intended to create an identity for the Yoga, mindfulness, and wellness communities on U.S. college campuses.

He has successfully treated thousands of patients throughout the world, he has trained hundreds of Yoga teachers and Yoga studio owners in the United States, and he is a past presenter at both The IAYT’s Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research and annually at The International Yoga Festival in Rishikesh, India at Parmarth Niketan Ashram, as well as at countless Yoga festivals and conferences around the globe. What’s more, Dr. Goldman’s work has been highlighted and featured in many forms of news and media including ABC News, CBS News, Good Morning LALA Land, The Desert Sun, Miami New Times, AM Northwest, Yoga Journal, Yoga Mind Body Spirit, Enlightened Practice Magazine, and the top-selling book, Yoga for Dummies. For more, follow Eden at @dr.edengoldman on Instagram.