B. Division of Yoga and Life Sciences

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This Division offers short-term courses and elective courses (to be chosen by MSc and PhD students). The Department of Health Sciences is attached with a 160 beds yoga therapy Health Home (Arogyadhama) meant to not only treat the yoga therapy participants (we do not call them patients) suffering from various modern ailments but also draw normal persons for prevention of possible illness and promotion of positive health by the Integrated Approach of Yoga Therapy (IAYT). The students will not only acquire theoretical knowledge and practical experience by their own yoga practices but also get the rich experience of working with doctors, senior yoga therapists and with the yoga therapy participants. Handling them under severe conditions of the diseases immensely help them to become confident of their learning and usefulness of IAYT. The research section with modern gadgets helps them to measure the changes in these participants to assess the improvements. The Department of Bio-Sciences includes the following laboratories: the psychophysiology, Neuro-psychology, sleep lab, metabolic analyzer lab, immune lab, bio-chemistry and psychology labs. It is here that the students get the necessary training to do research of international standards. The modern scientific research is applied to esoteric dimensions of tradition as well as investigations into the paranormal. Essentially this department is meant for the basic research to understand the effects of various yoga practices on human systems. The Department of Natural Sciences has 8 sections encompassing a large spectrum of living systems and their changes due to interactions with human beings. The effect of Agnihotra, Sound, Music, Vedic chanting etc. on plants and animals is studied in great detail in this department. The department includes agricultural farms, gardens, forests, horticultural plants and a GoSala with more than 100 cows. The usefulness of cowdung, Gomutra or urine of cows as possible medicines is also studied.

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Positive impact of cyclic meditation on subsequent sleep
(Med Sci Monit, 2009) Sanjib Patra; Telles, Shirley
Positive Impact of Cyclic Meditation.
Use of AyUse of Ayurveda in promoting dental health and preventing dental caries
(Indian J Dent Res,, 2009-08-03) Telles, Shirley; Naveen, K.V.; Acharya Balakrishna
Use of AyUse of Ayurveda in promoting dental health and preventing dental caries
Yoga and psychosis: risks and therapeutic potential.
(Journal of Indian Psychology, 2003) Naveen, K.V.; Telles, Shirley
There is a strong interest in the correlation between yoga (especially meditation)and psychosis. some reports have described:1)appearance of psychotic. symptoms episodes in those with a history of psychosis, after meditation.2)precipitation of acute psychotic episodes in those with a history of psychosis.
Psychophysiological effects of colored light used in healing.
(World journal of medical science, 2006-06) Naveen, K.V.; Telles, Shirley
Chromotherapy uses colored light for healing. The present study assessed the physiological effects of blue and red light in normal volunteers, as these colors were believed to have opposite physiological effects. Fifteen male volunteers (age range 17 to 29 years) were studied in two sessions each. Each session lasted for 40 min, with a test period of 30 min, preceded and followed by two 5-min periods without colored light. Throughout both sessions, subjects lay supine with eyes closed. The room was illuminated with ordinary light during the pre and post periods of both sessions. During the test period, blue light was used for one session, while red light was used for the other. The heart rate, skin resistance, finger plethysmogram amplitude, breath rate, blood pressure and electroencephalogram (EEG) were measured. There was a significant reduction in the breath rate during exposure to blue light and the diastolic blood pressure reduced immediately after exposure to blue light, compared to the preceding period (t-test for paired data). The results suggest that blue light reduces physiological arousal, supporting the claim that blue light can be used to induce physiological rest. Red light did not have a stimulating effect in this study.
Effect of yoga on self-rated visual discomfort in computer users.
(Head and face medicine, 2006) Telles, Shirley; Naveen, K.V.; Dash, Manoj; Deginal, R.; Manjunath N.K.
Dry eye' appears to be the main contributor to the symptoms of computer vision syndrome. Regular breaks and the use of artificial tears or certain eye drops are some of the options to reduce visual discomfort. A combination of yoga practices have been shown to reduce visual strain in persons with progressive myopia. The present randomized controlled trial was planned to evaluate the effect of a combination of yoga practices on self-rated symptoms of visual discomfort in professional computer users in Bangalore.
Therapeutic application of a cold chest pack in bronchial asthma.
(World journal of medical science, 2006-06) Manjunath N.K.; Telles, Shirley
In natural medicine, application of a cold chest pack for 30 min daily over a period of time is believed to improve lung functions in bronchial asthmatics. However there has been no scientific evaluation of this treatment. Hence the present study was carried out on 15 medication-free bronchial asthma patients (2 males) with ages from 19 to 42 years. The peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR, in l/min) was recorded before, during and after a 30 min application of a cold chest pack. This treatment was carried on for 21 days, during which the patients received other naturopathy treatments such as fasting, diet changes, hydrotherapy, massage, magnetotherapy, color therapy and application of mud packs, along with yoga therapy. The PEFR and symptom scores of the patients were assessed on Days 1 and 21. The results were analyzed using a two factor ANOVA and paired-t-test, which showed a significant increase in the PEFR recorded on Day 21 compared to Day 1 values, as well as immediately after the chest pack compared to the before values on day 21. Also, the symptom scores have significantly reduced following the 21 days of naturopathy treatment. The results suggest that (I) an application of a cold chest pack increases the PEFR as an immediate effect and (ii) this effect is augmented following 21 days of other naturopathy treatments along with yoga.
Oriental approaches to masculine and feminine subtle energy principles
(Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2005) Telles, Shirley
According to ancient Indian and Chinese texts the subtle energy (pra-na or chi) flows through several thousand anatomically indistinguishable channels or meridians (nadis). Three channels are especially important (ida, pingaia, and sushum-na). The ida and pingaia channels correlate with left and right uninostril breathing, respectively. Like yin and yang, they are considered to represent the masculine and feminine principles present in all creation irrespective of sex. From this perspective these principles are assumed to be present simultaneously in persons of both sexes. This suggests that any sex-specific effects of uninostril breathing may be associated with sex-based physiological differences, not with 'masculine' and 'feminine' attributes of the channels (and the corresponding nostrils).
Randomized trial of yoga as a complementary therapy for pulmonary tuberculosis
(Respirology,, 2004) Naveen, K.V.; Telles, Shirley
Objective: The present prospective, randomized trial compared the efficacy of anti-tuberculosis treatment (ATT) with two separate programs (yoga and breath awareness), on lung capacities and bacteriological status in pulmonary tuberculosis patients. Methodology: A total of 1009 pulmonary tuberculosis patients were screened and 73 were alternately allocated, to yoga ( n = 36) or breath awareness ( n = 37) groups, with 48 patients completing the 2-month trial. Patients aged between 20 and 55 years, who were sputum-positive on three consecutive examinations, had no prior ATT, and no comorbidities or extrapulmonary tuberculosis were included. In addition to ATT, one group practised yoga ( n = 25) and the other practised breath awareness ( n = 23) for 6 h per week, each session being 60 min.
Yoga based relaxation versus supine rest: a study of oxygen consumption, breath rate and volume & autonomic measures
(Journal of Indian Psychology, 1999) Vempati, R.P.; Telles, Shirley
Forty male volunteers with ages ranging from 16 to 46 yrs ware studied in two sessions, yoga based isometric relaxation technique (IRT) and supine rest (SR). Assessments of autonomic parameters were made in 15 subjects, before and after the practices, whereas oxygen consumption, breath rate and breath volume were recorded in 25 subjects, before and after IRT and SR. A significant decrease in breath rate after IRT and in linger Plethysmogram was recorded after SR. The results suggest possibilities for IRT in reducing some physiological signs of anxiety.
Yoga training and motor speed based on a finger tapping task.
(Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, 1999-06-03) Dash, Manoj; Telles, Shirley
A finger tapping task was used to assess motor speed (MS) of both hands in 53 adults and, 152 children before and after yoga training and in 38 adults of a non-yoga (control) group. All subjects were right hand dominant. The 30 second tapping speed (TS) test was considered as three time intervals, i.e. 0-10 second (TSI), 10-20 seconds (TS2) and 20- 30 seconds (TS3). There was a significant (Student's t-test) increase in all three TS values following 10 days of yoga in children and 30 days of yoga in adults. However for both groups at baseline and final assessments, TS2 and TS3 were significantly lower than TS1. Hence the TS was increased after yoga training during the first 10 seconds of the test but not during the next 20 seconds. These results suggest an increase in motor speed for repetitive finger movements following yoga training, but not in strength or endurance, as the increase was not sustained over 30 sec.

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