Dr. Vijayendra Pratap Interview | Yoga Science, Jesus in India, Swami Miracles

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Dr. Vijayendra Pratap, a student of Swami Kuvalayananda, is the Founder/Director of SKY Foundation, President of the Yoga Research Society, Director of the Yoga program at the Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, and author of A Teacher’s Guide to Beginning Yoga, Yoga Vision, Secrets of Hatha Vidya, Stories Retold, Yoga of Gheranda, and Yoga of Goraksa. Dr. Pratap earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Applied Psychology, University of Bombay, and was a member of the Board of Editors of Yoga Mimamsa, the international quarterly of yoga research, from 1966 to 1990.

He has presented papers and conducted workshops at various conferences and institutions including the World Conference of Scientific Yoga, New Delhi; the XXth International Congress of Psychology, Tokyo; the Biofeedback Research Society Conference, Colorado; the International Yoga and Meditation Congresses, Chicago; the Third World Congress of Yoga, Sao Paulo; the Pan American Commission for Yoga, Sao Paulo; the Unity in Yoga Conference, Tamiment; the 19th Himalayan Institute Congress, Honesdale; the University of New Mexico School of Medicine; Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia; the lnstituto Psicosomatica E Yoga, Torino; the Yoga for Peace Conference, Jerusalem; and the Yoga Research Society Conferences (from 1975–present), Philadelphia.

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0:00 Introduction

1:26 Scientific Study of Yoga – Swami Kuvalayananda

5:05 Swami Kuvalayananda’s Books and Message of Yoga

7:06 Brain Waves and Muscle Potentials While Sitting, Lying, and In Asana

8:37 Measuring God under hypnosis with Max Collie

11:38 Studying with Swamiji and noting his lectures

14:11 New Projects, A Call for Assistance

15:17 Hectic Journey to USA in 1971 to Spread Yoga

23:33 Swami Rama, and Extraordinary Swamis

28:36 Immortal Swamis Babaji, Devraha Baba

30:45 Sai Baba, Kundalini Shaktipat, Baba Muktananda

34:38 Lab Testing of a Mind-Reading Swami

40:44 Jesus in India, Sutras of Patanjali

55:34 Pranayama, Air Patterns, and the Brain

59:46 Congestion, Dairy in India vs. USA

1:03:00 Skyland, SKY Foundation, Yoga Research Society,

1:06:55 Garland of Letters Bookshop

1:12:51 40 years of Yoga Research Society and Medical Yoga Conferences

1:17:30 Everything from Nothing

1:18:56 Yoga’s Deeper Meanings

LINKS:

Sky Foundation Yoga Research Society Garland of Letters

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