Medical/Psychophysiological Research on Yoga:Some Primary Resources

Compiled by: Trisha LambLast Revised: April 27, 2006

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The contents of this bibliography do not provide medical advice and should not be so interpreted. Before beginning anyexercise program, see your physician for clearance.

Bibliographies

1. Extensive bibliographies compiled by the International Association of YogaTherapists (IAYT):http://www.iayt.org/biblio.html2. The Medline database. Search on the term “yoga,” and you will receive over 700 hits;search on the term “meditation,” and you will receive over 1,000 hits. Abstracts areprovided for many of the articles. All of the Medline articles are cited in the IAYTbibliographies above. Access Medline via PubMed at:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi3. Touch Research Institutes Yoga bibliographies with abstracts (all of these citations,but not all of the abstracts are contained in the IAYT bibliographies above):http://www.miami.edu/touch-research/Yoga.html4. Kaivalyadhama bibliographies of their 75 years of Yoga research (all of these studiesare cited in the IAYT bibliographies above):http://www.kdham.com5. Swami Vivekananda Yoga Research Foundation bibliographies of their decades of Yoga research (all of these studies are cited in the IAYT bibliographies above):http://www.vkyogas.org.in6. Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram Yoga research bibliography (all of these studies arecited in the IAYT bibliographies above):http://www.kym.org7. The Art of Living Foundation Yoga and other research bibliography with abstracts (allof these studies are cited in the IAYT bibliographies above): http://www.artofliving.org/research.html

Publications on Conducting Yoga Research

Black, Kathryn.

Yoga under the microscope: Can claims of yoga’s health benefits standup to scientific scrutiny? These three researchers think so.

Yoga Journal

, Source 2001issue, pp. 88-93, 130-134. (On contemporary Yoga researchers.)

Foreman, Judy.

Scientific support for yoga is slim.

Boston Globe

, 29 Jun 2004.

Monro, Robin.

Planning a long-term research strategy.

Yoga Biomed Newsletter

, no. 31.Article available online: http://freespace.virgin.net/yogabio.med/research/planning.htm.

Nagendra, H. R., and S. Telles.

[Yoga] Research Methods

. Bangalore, India:Vivekananda Kendra Yoga Prakashan.Contents: Introduction, Planning a research project, Design of the study, Statistics,Parameters to be recorded for specific diseases (obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension,asthma, low back pain, rheumatoid arthritis)

Nahin, Richard L., and Stephen E. Strauss.

Research into complementary andalternative medicine: Problems and potential.

British Medical Journal

, 20 Jan 2001,322:161-164.

Nithyanand, Latha.

[An interview with Dr. Nithyanand.]

Samacar@KYM: The Newsletter of Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram

.Dr. Nithyanand answers the questions: What is the aim of the research department? Whatis the current research you are doing? What is the methodology of the research you aredoing? What are the research projects you have done so far? Are there abstracts of theseprojects available to the public? What are your plans to share the research in future? Anyspecial research which is unique to KYM? What is the structure of the department?

Reuters Health.

One in three drop out of behavioral treatment. Article available online:http://www.healthcentral.cm/news/newsfulltext.cfm?id=28499&StoryType=ReutersNews.“One third of people enrolled in behavioral treatment programs for managing chronicpain, headache, stress, or weight control drop out before completing the programs . . .The programs lasted from 8 to 26 weeks, and included techniques such as . . . relaxation,meditation, yoga, . . .”

Skolnick, Adam.

Beneath the surface: A glimpse within the laboratory.

LA Yoga

,May/Jun 2003, pp. 31-34. (On contemporary Yoga researchers.)

Tales from the trenches: Conducting Yoga research on low back pain: An interviewwith karen Sherman, Ph.D., and Robin Rothenberg, C.Y.T.

International Journal of Yoga Therapy

, 2005, no. 5.