The Kirpalu Institute for Extraordinary Living

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About this organization:

Changing the World Through Yoga Research What if we were to make yoga widely available to children in schools? To our military personnel? To those with mental and physical illness? To our elderly? 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 that this is true. But in order to bring the transformational effects of yoga deeply into our society, these effects must first be scientifically evaluated—and that’s just what we're doing at Kripalu’s Institute for Extraordinary Living (IEL). Did you know that the IEL sponsors the largest and most influential team of yoga researchers in the West? We currently support a team of Harvard Medical School faculty and research assistants who are studying the effects of yoga on a wide spectrum of human functioning—from mental and physical health to the development of extraordinary states of consciousness. Please find out more about our work by reviewing the information throughout this website. If you can, I urge you to make a donation (at right) to support one of our projects. You can bring the gift of yoga to inner-city school children, to war veterans with PTSD, to disadvantaged adults suffering from obesity, and to so many others who might not otherwise have access to yoga. Thank you for joining us in this historic effort. —Stephen Cope, Director, Institute for Extraordinary Living

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Yoga