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			SHRIKRISHNA		0091 22 2895 21050091 22 2892 8629Mumbai, Borivali (West), Karnataka 4001. Until recently, Dr Shrikrishna was Principal of the Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute in Bombay one of the oldest and best-known yoga institutes in the world. Its founder, Swami Kuvalayananda, contributed significantly to the worldwide spread of yoga and its acceptability to the modern mind. In 1924 he began investigating effects of yogic practices, using the methods of modern physiology. His own experience and deep knowledge of the yoga tradition, coupled with these investigations, convinced him that the age-old system of yoga, if understood through the modern scientific experimental approach, would help greatly in the spiritual and material resurgence of human society. This became his life mission. In 1924 Swami Kuvalayananda established the Kaivalyadhama Institute at Lonavla to develop the study of yoga in all its aspects – textual, scientific and experiential. In 1932 a branch was established in Bombay. Dr Shrikrishna was Principal from the 1970’s until 1999, when he withdrew to deepen his own practice. Under his leadership, the Institute became a major centre for yoga and yoga therapy. Every year some 4,000 members attend the centre to learn yogic practices, either for maintaining health or for specific assistance in the natural process of healing when suffering from illness. Medical supervision by doctors, trained in yoga therapy, and personal teaching by yoga teachers and therapists, are among its activities. Dr Shrikrishna is himself a medical doctor and a PhD, having carried out research on respiratory physiology and pranayama at the prestigious All India Institute of Medicine. He is also widely versed in traditional yoga texts. At his Retreats, Dr Shrikrishna unites the varied strands of his experience to give an integrated presentation. His teaching of pranayama, and his use of it to lead into the deeper appreciation of yoga philosophy is particularly inspiring. Dr Shrikrishna leads annual retreats in France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. Underlying Dr Shrikrishna’s work is the understanding that yoga acts on two levels: as a science of health paving the way to personal growth; and as a facilitator, to enter a transcendental transpersonal state.



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