Patanjali Yogpeeth, Haridwar: An Ayurveda center which includes treatment, research, and education

Patanjali Yogpeeth, Haridwar: An Ayurveda center which includes treatment, research, and education

Ancient methods of healing are increasingly gaining acceptance in promoting positive health, preventing disease, and managing a disease which is present. Patanjali Yogpeeth, which was inaugurated in 2006 is located in Haridwar, North India. It was founded by Swami Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna. The trust aims to increase the propagation of yoga and Ayurveda as methods of health promotion and he...

Action research on education in Ayurveda

One of great challenges faced by the Ayurveda sector today is education [1e6]. Action research can be used as a tool to bring out practical solutions to combat the problems faced by Ayurveda in teaching and training. Action research in education is interventions made in teaching methods and analysis of whether these methods are making any difference in the students' learning. Today, quantificat...

Patanjali and neuroscientific research on meditation

The definition of meditation (or yoga) by Patanjali as " restriction (or stilling) of the fluctuations of the mind " (cf, Woods, 1927/2003, p. xxx, 8) may be an appropriate starting point for research on meditation using fMRI. An operational definition of the neural substrate of meditation which is adequate to Patanjalis definition, may be developed on the basis of a non-reductionistic understa...

Commentary: Patanjali and neuroscientific research on meditation

Ayurveda and Modern Health Education

Ayurveda is prevention in itself. It is not necessary for Ayurveda to develop a comprehensive structure of preventive approaches as it is found in modern health education. On the other hand has Ayurveda not modernized its preventive principles according to the present living and working conditions of the people. It is so far not understood as integral part of the socio-economic development of t...