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  • 2014 Youth and Children’s Retreat
  • Reflections on my Mantra Initiation
  • First Scholarly Article Published
  • Silence Which Speaks Loudly
  • 2013 Spring Workshop in Taiwan
  • The Last Art Class with SRSG Kids
  • Silence Retreat on Lake Balaton, Hungary
  • Bundles of Joy!
  • An Album of a Spiritual Journey
  • Swans
  • 2013 Events and Beyond
  • Full Moon Meditation Dates
  • Location of the SRSG ashram
• AHYMSIN Newsletter Archive

First Scholarly Article Published

by Dr. Manuel Fernandez

The first scholarly article published with a Meditation Research Institute/Sadhaka Grama affiliation on it has been published, so in that sense it's "historical."

The literature review on Yoga Nidra by Stoma Parker is now published at the International Journal of Yoga Therapy. The full citation:

Parker, Stephen; Veda Bharati, Swami; Fernandez, Manuel. (2013). Defining Yoga-Nidra: Traditional Accounts, Physiological Research, and Future Directions. International Journal of Yoga Therapy — No. 23 (1).

More Meditation Research Institute/Sadhaka Grama affiliated academic articles are forthcoming by Dr. Arnaud Delorme and team, Claire Braboszcz , Rael Cahn, Pravin Kumar, Darius Plikynas, and so forth. 

If anyone is interested, they can subscribe to the International Journal of Yoga Therapy online or by hard copy at: http://www.iayt.org/Publications_Vx2/journals_Vx2.aspx .

Editor’s Note:

The Mediation Research Institute was established to test the neuro-psycho-physiological effects of meditation and the practice of silence. It was first developed by Dr. Manuel Fernandez, who managed and developed it for five years till 2011. Dr. Prabhu, a senior level scientist, has joined the Lab since January 2013 and is assisted by Pravin Soni. Dr. Prabhu is also engaged in studies at the Meditation Research Institute with plans to prepare full scientific report for publication in scientific journals. The Meditation Research Institute (MRI) is located on the Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama (SRSG) campus, Rishikesh, India.

For more reading about yoga nidra, we invite you to read (click on titles):

• Yoga Nidra, Methods of Conscious Sleep by Swami Veda Bharati
• Four States of Yoga Nidra by Swami Veda Bharati
• A Successful Yoga Nidra Retreat by Stephen (Stoma) Parker This includes reporting on an experiment demonstrating the production of delta waves while maintaining awareness of one's surroundings.

Please see the article Silence Which Speaks Loudly about Body and Mind in this edition of the AHYMSIN newsletter (next article, # 5) for the current study taking place at the Meditation Research Institute.

There are some links to articles on experiments done with Swami Rama at this web page: http://hihtuniversity.edu.in/index.php/swami-rama-founder/

Here is a link to an article written about the lab in 2009: http://ahymsin.org/main/mri/the-meditation-research-institute.html  

Yoga Nidra by Dr. Stephan Parker (Stoma) now available for download from CD Baby:http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/drstephenparkerstoma

Dr. Manuel Fernandez now teaches and has a center in Santiago, Chile.  We invite you to visit his website:http://www.manuyog.org/