Research

Since its founding in the early 1990s, IYNAUS has had a Yoga Research Committee to foster medical research and exchange research findings on yoga-related issues. About this same time, the National Institutes of Health created what would become the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. This branch of NIH began to seriously study -- and provide funds to study -- yoga, meditation, acupuncture, herbal medicine and more. With NIH leading the way, research studies began to find more funding. However, few of us read medical and research journals. Sometimes information will filter down and make its way into general purpose magazines or get a mention on a television show. But these mentions are often brief or generalized. Where do you go to find the full story? That is the purpose of the IYNAUS Research webpage.

Here you’ll find results from studies, primarily involving Iyengar Yoga, on a wide range of topics. Many of these articles first appeared in publications and websites such as the International Journal of Yoga Therapy, Current Oncology, the Oxford Journal, Medicalnewstoday.com and Healthlibrary.com, others are by health professionals in our community.

Please, use and contribute to the Research page. Let us know of articles you have read or research you are doing. We will post them to continue to heighten the profile of Iyengar Yoga and broaden access to this important information.

Multiple Subjects

Aging

Anxiety / Depression

Arthritis

Back Pain

Breast Cancer

Cancer

Cardiopulmonary Functions

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Depression

Fibromyalgia

Immune System

Menopause

Multiple Sclerosis

Parkinson's Disease

Scoliosis

Skeletal Functions

Women's Health