Robin Wells earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Berkeley and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at MIT. She has taught economics at University of Michigan, Stanford Business School, and MIT, and published in scholarly journals. Currently she is an author and yoga teacher, having co-written with her husband, Paul Krugman, the best-selling textbook, Principles of Economics. For the past 8 years she has been a committed yogini. She has trained extensively with Ana Forrest and with Anodea Judith. She has also completed trainings on the psychotherapeutic uses of yoga, especially for the treatment of trauma. She writes and teaches yoga classes in Princeton, NJ.