Subject Matter Excerpts:
Dr H R Nagendra ME., PhD
Chancellor, S-VYASA University, Bengaluru, India

Dr H R Nagendra holds PhD in Mechanical Engineering
from IISc, Bangalore. After receiving his doctorate in 1968, he served as
faculty of IISc in Department of Mechanical Engineering. Then, he went to
Canada as Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the University of British Columbia,
Canada in 1970. From there, he moved to NASA Marshall Space Flight Centre, USA
as Post-Doctoral Research Associate in 1971 and moved to Engineering Science
Laboratory, Harvard University, USA as a Consultant in 1972. He served as Visiting
Staff at Imperial College of Science and Technology, London later. In 1975, he
joined Vivekananda Kendra, a service mission as a whole-time worker. Director of Training Centre,
Vivekanandapuram, Kanyakumari. Between 1975 and 1993, he served as the All
India Secretary, Yoga Shiksha Vibhag, Vivekanand Kendra, Kanyakumari. He is the
founder and President of Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana, Bengaluru.
Currently, He is the Chancellor of Swami Vivekananda
Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana, a Yoga University in Bangalore. He is also Chairman
of Task force of AYUSH, Govt, of India, New Delhi. He has published 30 Research
Papers in Engineering and more than 120 research papers on Yoga. He has
authored and co-authored 40 books on Yoga. He has received several awards for
his life time achievement in the field of yoga including Padma Shri award by
Govt. of India in 2016.
Dr Manjunath N K BNYS., PhD, DSc
Pro-Vice-Chancellor & the Director of Research

Dr. Manjunath N K is
the Pro-Vice-Chancellor & the Director of Research at S-VYASA University.
He has completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Naturopathy & Yogic Sciences from
Mangalore University and a Ph.D. in Yoga & Geriatric Medicine from S-VYASA
University. He has also been awarded the Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) (Honoris
Causa) from S-VYASA University for his contributions to Yoga Research. He has
26 years of Academic, Research, and Administrative experience and has published
70 research papers in journals indexed in international bibliographic
databases. His research interests include Psychophysiology of Yoga, Neural
correlates of meditation, Aging and rehabilitation. He has guided several
students of Ph.D., M.D., and M.Sc. He is also the Editor of International
Journal of Yoga (IJOY) and reviewer of various international journals. Dr.
Manjunath has delivered lectures on evidence-based Yoga therapy and conducted
workshops at prestigious institutions and Universities across the world
including Harvard Medical School, USA, Monash University, Australia, Royal
College of Medicine, London, Shanghai University of Sports, China, Pharma
University, Italy etc. He serves as a member of the Scientific Advisory
Committee, Department of Science and Technology, Research advisory committee,
Integrative Medicine initiative, Niti Aayog, Core committee, Yoga accreditation
in higher education, NAAC, Govt. of India and Steering committee, Yoga programs
and accreditation, Yunnan Minzu University, China etc. He is the Vice-President
of Vivekananda Yoga University, California, USA, Vice-president of Asian Yoga
Therapy Association, Singapore, and the Founding Director of the global chain
of Integrative Medicine clinics and hospitals with the brand name Vivekananda
Health Global.
Subject Matter Expert and Course Coordinator:
Deepeshwar Singh, M.Sc., Ph.D. (Yoga)
Associate Professor, Division of Yoga and Life
Sciences, S-VAYSA, Bengaluru

Dr. Singh has done a Ph.D.
in Yoga from S-VYASA University, Bengaluru. His Ph.D.
work was on ‘Neuronal activity and Cerebral blood flow changes in meditative
states as defined in yoga texts’. He
is an Associate Professor, working in the field of yoga and cognitive
neuroscience since 2010. He is exploring the beneficial effects of yoga and
meditative practices on mental health and brain functions using
electrophysiological and neuroimaging techniques. He has published more than 50
research papers in national and international Journals. He authored several
chapters on yoga including a chapter on ‘Meditation’ in the Book “Progress in Brain Research”, Elsevier, 2019. He is an active member
of Society for Neuroscience, USA. He has presented research papers at international
and national conferences and conducted
several workshops on evidenced-based yoga therapy, research methodology,
scientific writings, and applications of
neuroimaging tools and techniques in yoga research. He has received an international
travel award from SERB to travel San Diego (2015) and Chicago (2019), USA for
conference presentations in Society for Neuroscience. He also received a Young
Scientist Fellowship from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB),
Govt. of India, to study “Cerebral autoregulation and sympathetic nervous
system activity (SNS) while performing cognitive tasks during yoga practices
which have different effects on SNS”. Further, he has received several other major
grants from Govt. of India to investigate the efficacy of yoga for human health
and wellbeing.
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