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Kripalu Institute for Extraordinary Living
Changing the World Through Yoga Research
What if we were to make yoga widely available to schoolchildren and their teachers? To those who are sick as well as their caregivers?
Yoga has the potential to change our world—both through the alleviation of suffering and the creation of vast opportunities for self-fulfillment. Those of us who practice yoga know this is true. But in order to imbue the transformational effects of yoga deeply into our society, we must combine the gifts of yoga with scientific validation. This is what the IEL is doing!
Did you know that the IEL is developing and rigorously evaluating yoga-based programs to transform schools and health care? Teams of Kripalu yogis and leading scientists are joining together to make the case that yoga can transform our world and build the programs to make it happen.
Please find out more about our work by reviewing the information throughout this website. If you can, we urge you to make a donation (at right) to support one of our projects. You can bring the gift of yoga to schoolchildren and to so many others who might not otherwise have access to yoga.
Thank you for joining us in this historic effort.
 | Stephen Cope Executive Director Institute for Extraordinary Living |
 | Edi Pasalis Managing Director Institute for Extraordinary Living |
Stephen Cope is the Executive Director of the Institute for Extraordinary Living. He is a Western-trained psychotherapist who writes and teaches about the relationship between Western psychological paradigms and the Eastern contemplative traditions. Stephen holds degrees from Amherst College and Boston College. He did graduate and postgraduate training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the Boston area, where he practiced for many years before joining the staff at Kripalu. In its twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Yoga Journal named him one of the most important innovators in the developing field of American yoga. Stephen is a classically trained pianist and has danced professionally with a ballet and modern-dance company.
Edi Pasalis, MBA, MTS, Managing Director of the Institute for Extraordinary Living (IEL), brings more than two decades of corporate and entrepreneurial experience and a deep study of yoga to her management of the IEL. Edi’s academic background includes an MBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and a master’s degree from Harvard Divinity School, where she explored the impact of yoga on spiritual life. Edi is also a 500-Hour certified Kripalu Yoga teacher.
