Sat Bir S. Khalsa
Presenter
Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, Ph.D. has been fully engaged in biomedical research on the efficacy of yoga and meditation practices in improving physical and psychological health since 2001. He has practiced Kundalini Yoga since 1971 and is a certified instructor. He is the Director of Research for the Kundalini Research Institute, a research associate at the Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, a research affiliate of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He has conducted clinical research trials evaluating yoga interventions for insomnia, post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic stress, and anxiety disorders and also for adolescents public schools and workers in occupational settings. Dr. Khalsa works with the International Association of Yoga Therapists to promote research on yoga and yoga therapy as the chair of the scientific program committee for the annual Symposium on Yoga Research and as editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Yoga Therapy. He is medical editor of the Harvard Medical School Special Report: An Introduction to Yoga and chief editor of the medical textbook The Principles and Practice of Yoga in Health Care.
Upcoming Programs
Resources
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The Evidence Is in: Yoga Can Protect You Against Disease
The intent of yoga is to create well-being as a result of physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual balance. This is also the intent of medicine.
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A Is for Asana, B Is for Breath: The Impact of Yoga in Schools
Studies on yoga’s impact on adolescents show that regular practice increases self-esteem and mental and physical well-being, and strengthens coping mechanisms and self-regulation skills.
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Yoga and Sleep
The statistics around sleep are enough to give you nightmares.
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The Power of Pranayama: Research and Ramifications
Consciously controlling the breath can have tremendous impact on our health and well-being.
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The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards
An excerpt from The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards Drawing from both scientific research and esoteric wisdom, William J. Broad’s The Science of...
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How Yoga Can Help Us Live Longer and Better
Research is revealing that yoga and meditation don’t just help us relax or keep us flexible—these practices also influence memory, lifespan, immunity, neuroplasticity, and epigenetics.
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Why Yoga Works
With the ever-growing amount of scientific studies conducted in the field of yoga research,...
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A Living Laboratory for Yoga Research
Research on Kripalu's RISE program shows multiple physical and mental-health benefits, and illustrates the major impact the program makes on individuals' work and home lives.
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The High School Brain on Yoga
The brain’s malleability during adolescence marks a crucial stage in both cognitive and emotional development. Yoga can support that development.
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Yoga Goes to High School
I’m waiting in the yoga classroom of a western Massachusetts high school—the site of one of the Yoga in the Schools projects being developed and...
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Yoga Research: The Power of Possibility
Kripalu's research initiative is making significant headway in the quest to understand and document the effects and mechanisms of yoga.
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