Bruce Fischer was immersed in a family and social environment centered on science throughout childhood before beginning a journey of exploration of the practices and study of yoga and meditation in his late teens.   This background led to his decisions to pursue education and practice as a physical therapist and then a physician before choosing to specialize in psychiatry. It was his expereince that his contacts with the central figure guiding Dean Ornish’s studies of the effects of lifestyle on cardiac health and disease and George Engel regarding his biopsychosocial model of health and disease aligned with his understanding of yoga, biology and medicine. Dr Fischer continues a private practice deducated to facilitating better quality of life and improved mental and physical health by integrating psychiatry, lifestyle medicine and principles and practices of yoga for those who are interested.