Sat Bir S. Khalsa
Sat Bir S. Khalsa, PhD, is assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Research Director for Kripalu. Through the Kripalu Institute for Extraordinary Living, he is the primary investigator for yoga studies establishing Kripalu program efficacy, contributes to yoga teacher training and guest programs, and convenes yoga research symposia. His research on yoga for mental health in public schools, insomnia, anxiety disorders, and chronic stress; his Harvard ebook Your Brain on Yoga; and the medical textbook The Principles and Practice of Yoga in Health Care, which he co-edited, have established him as a world-renowned yoga researcher, collaborator, author, and speaker.
Upcoming Programs
Resources
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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 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 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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