“Yoga: The Biomedical Science and Research” by Dr. Khalsa

Sadhguru Center Speaker Series are monthly virtual lecture-discussions highlighting the research and explorations of our multidisciplinary community of distinguished scientists, global experts, and thought leaders.

In this talk, Dr. Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, PhD will present “Yoga: The Biomedical Science and Research" where he will discuss the following: Identify the basic mechanistic psychological and physical components contributing to the efficacy of yoga practice; and describe an interactive logic model of how the different underlying mechanisms of yoga contribute to its overall benefits.

Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, PhD is Director of Yoga Research for the Yoga Alliance and the Kundalini Research Institute, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has conducted scientific yoga research since 2001 on yoga for insomnia, stress, anxiety disorders, and workplace and school settings and has been a practitioner/instructor of Kundalini Yoga since 1973. He coordinates the annual Symposium on Yoga Research, is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Yoga Therapy, medical editor of the Harvard report Introduction to Yoga, and chief editor of the medical textbook The Principles and Practice of Yoga in Health Care.

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