Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, Ph.D. is the Director of Yoga Research for the Yoga Alliance and the Kundalini Research Institute,
Research Affiliate at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
We talked about:
(0:59) What trends happened in yoga in the last 50 years?
(4:21) The barriers for yoga to enter the mainstream
(6:38) Why do people enter yoga and why do people stay with yoga?
(9:38) Why people don't stay with their yoga practice?
(11:59) How did you stick with your discipline in the last 50 years?
(14:23) The limitations of modern medicine
(18:56) What's spirituality to you? How do you distinguish science and spirituality?
(25:11) How do you study mystical experiences?
(29:46) Have you seen any promising funding mechanisms to fund the spiritual aspects of yoa?
(33:33) How has being media savvy helped you with your research?
(40:49) How did you end up choosing your field of research?
(45:12) If you could design any experiments, how would you study altered states of consciousness through yoga?
(50:23) Is there a parallel between research about hallucinogens and research about yoga?
(52:29) Why is multi-discipline practice like yoga more beneficial than other single-discipline practices
(58:57) How do you find the yoga teacher, environment, and philosophy that best suits you?
(62:57) Why yoga is the better mind-body practice than others?
