Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhãna Sansthãna(VYÃSA) is a non-profit organisation engaged in scientific research and tranining people in YOGA in India and abroad. VYÃSA has so far trained about 4000 Yoga Teachers to teach Yoga in schools in eight states of India. Our work has spread in 22 countries.
Objectives Main Activities What is Yoga Residential Courses
Research Activities around the World
1. To bring
the benefits of Yoga to everyone in the Society and
2. To make yoga, a
socially relevant science by using the modern tool of scientific research.
1.
Yoga for General Public for promotion of positive health.
2. Yoga for
unravelling the hidden dimensions of human potential.
3. Yoga in Education
for total personality Development.
4. Yoga Therapy for Modern Ailments.
5. Yoga for Corporate Sector to deal with stress and Management systems.
VYÃSA has been setup to examine the efficacy of yoga practices and to develop yoga courses to solve the basic problems of the high tech-era.
1. Yoga for
Modern Society
2. Medical applications of Yoga
3. Educational
applications and
4. Other Yoga Applications.
Yoga is not magic or a rope trick. It is not merely a set of Yogasanas or Pranayama or Meditation; but it is a Science of Holistic Living consisting of a Holistic Value System featured by health and wealth, bliss and poise, harmony and efficiency.
Swami Vivekananda said - "Each Soul is Potentially Divine. The goal of life is to manifest that Divinity within by controlling nature internal and external. Do it by philosophy or psychic control or work or worship, by one or more or all of these and be free."
These four paths described are listed below. They can be termed as;
Jnana Yoga-
Path of Intellect
Raja Yoga - Will Power
Bhakthi Yoga- Emotions
Karma Yoga – Action, Perfection, Bliss, Knowledge, Peace, Freedom, Power and
Harmony
Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samasthana conducts Effective
Treatment by the method of Integrated Approach of Yoga for the management and
cure of various ailments. They are listed below;
Bronchial
Asthma
Nasal Allergy
Chronic Bronchitis
High and low BP and
Ischaemic Heart Diseases (IHD)
Anxiety and Depressive
Neurosis
Psychosis
Gastritis and
Peptic Ulcer
Chronic Diarrhoea and
Dysentery
Ophthalmic disorders:
Long and short sight, astigmatism, and
squint, initial stages of cataract and glaucoma
Mental Retardation and
Cerebral Palsy
Diabetes
Thyro
toxicosis
Obesity
Epilepsy
Migraine, Tension Headache
Rheumatism and
Arthritis
Low Back pain. . Cancer and many more.
Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samasthana conducts Residential Courses also. A window view of the courses-
Yoga for All
YA 101 Yoga Instructors Certificate (1 month)
Yoga for
Unravelling Hidden Potentials
YHP 201 Yoga Intensive (YI) - 2 days to 1 year
tailor made course
Yoga
Education YE 301 Personality Development camp for students(PDC) -- 10 Days
YE 302 Membership of the Board of Yoga Researchers (1 Year)
Yoga for
Promotion of Health
YH 403 Yoga Therapy Orientation Course (YTOC) 2 Months
YH 404 Diploma in Yoga Therapy (DYT) 4 1/2 Months
YH 405 Yoga Therapy
Instructors Course (YTIC) 5 ½ Months
YH 406 Diploma in Yoga &
Naturopathy (DYN) 12 Months
YH 303 Membership of the Board of Yoga
Therapists (MBYT) - 1 Year for MBBS
SMET
Self Management of Executive Tension
HOLSYM
Holistic Systems Management
YOGA FOR
UNRAVELLING
THE HIDDEN POTENTIALS
ANVESANA – RESEARCH
YOGA FOR CORPORATE SECTOR
Research Team - The research team has the Director,Assistant director of research , coordinator for day-to-day work co-ordination, four research fellows, three research scholars, ten research students and the course participants.
The Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samasthana houses a Research Library. A peek at the available material -
Collection
available as on 31-3-2001
Total number of Books available - 8572
Total
number of Journals available - 395
Total number of Audio Cassettes Available
- 518
Total number of Video Cassettes available - 403
Total number of
Dissertations available - 173
Conferences and Research papers -
International Conferences - 12
Research Paper Published - 56
Presented in Conferences - 146
Poster presentations - 5
Chapters in
book - 4
Reports - 16 Project Reports - 12
Research Project Completed -
10 On Hand - 4 Proposed - 20
Sanctioned Proposals - 5
Research Contributions
Dissertations - 168
Conference Proceedings - 2
Conference
Workshops - 14
Symposia - 61
Collaborating Institutions - 6
Conference Souvenirs - 12
Books - 29
Books with ISBN - 14
Cassettes Audio - 83
Video - 21
Awards - 36
Monthly Magazine
Yoga Sudha since Sept 1984
Activities of Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samasthana are spread over the Globe. A brief list is mentioned below;
Australia
Austria
Canary Island
Columbia
Czech
Republic
France
Far
East
Germany
Gulf
Holland
Indonesia
Italy
Japan
Kenya
Macedonia
New
Zealand
Romania
Singapore
South Africa
South America
Sri
Lanka
UK and Europe
U.A.E
Zambia
Zimbabwe