Trauma-responsive Kundalini Yoga Research Study Starting May 2026
We’re proud to share that Kundalini Yoga Therapist and faculty member, Siri Bhagvati / Billie Atherstone, is part of a groundbreaking, NHMRC-funded research study examining the effectiveness of trauma-responsive Kundalini Yoga for survivors of sexual violence. This world-first study brings together an international team of leading researchers in trauma recovery and mind-body medicine, including our very own Dr. Sat Bir Singh Khalsa (Harvard Medical School and pioneering Kundalini Yoga researcher), alongside Professor Bessel van der Kolk (author of The Body Keeps the Score), and distinguished academics from the University of Melbourne, UNSW, and Coventry University.
Evidence-Based Clinical Effectiveness of Kundalini Yoga: Systematic Review of RCTs Across Multiple Health Conditions
Kundalini Yoga (KY) integrates breathwork, meditation, dynamic movement, and chanting, and has gained recognition as a therapeutic intervention. Despite promising results from individual randomized controlled trials (RCTs), to our knowledge, no systematic review has exclusively synthesized RCT evidence on KY across health domains.
Collection of 68 Studies
Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, PhD has collected the Kundalini Yoga research that has been conducted and published over the decades. All Sixty-Eight Studies are here, in one place. You won’t find this collection anywhere else, and it is our gift to you.
Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, Ph.D. is the Director of Yoga Research for the Yoga Alliance and the Kundalini Research Institute, a Research Associate at the Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, a Research Affiliate at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He has conducted research on yoga and yoga therapy since 2001 and has been a practitioner/instructor of Kundalini Yoga since 1973. His research has evaluated yoga for insomnia, chronic stress, and anxiety-related disorders, and in workplace and public school settings. He works with the International Association of Yoga Therapists promoting yoga research as scientific director for the annual Symposium on Yoga Research and as editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Yoga Therapy. He is medical editor of the Harvard Medical School Special Report Introduction to Yoga, and chief editor of the medical textbook The Principles and Practice of Yoga in Health Care.
