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Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, Ph.D

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Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, Ph.D. is director of research for the Kundalini Research Institute, research associate at the Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, research affiliate at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He has conducted research on yoga since 2001, has been a practitioner of Kundalini Yoga since 1971, and is a certified teacher.

His research has evaluated yoga for insomnia, stress, trauma, and anxiety, and for workplace and public school settings. He works with the International Association of Yoga Therapists as scientific director for the annual Symposium on Yoga Research, and is editor in chief of the International Journal of Yoga Therapy. He is medical editor of the Harvard Medical School Special Report Introduction to Yoga, and chief editor of the medical textbook The Principles and Practice of Yoga in Health Care.