Dr. Vijayendra Pratap, a student of Swami Kuvalayanandaji, is the Founder/ Director of SKY Foundation, President of the Yoga Research Society, and served as Director of the Yoga Program at the Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University

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He is the author of A Teacher's Guide for Begining Yoga, Yoga Vision, Secrets of Hatha Vidya, Stories Retold, Yoga of Gheranda, and Yoga of Goraksa.

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Dr. Pratap earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Applied Psychology, University of Bombay, and was a member of the Board of Editors of YOGA MIMAMSA, the international quarterly of Yoga research from 1966 to 1990

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He has presented papers and conducted workshops at various conferences and institutions including the World Conference of Scientific Yoga, New Delhi; the XXth International Congress of Psychology, Tokyo; the Biofeedback Research Society Conference, Colorado; the International Yoga and Meditation Congresses, Chicago; the Third World Congress of Yoga, Sao Paulo; the Pan American Commission of Yoga, Sao Paulo; the Unity in Yoga Conference, Tamiment; the 19th Himalayan Institute Congress, Honesdale; the University of New Mexico School of Medicine; Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia; the Instituto Psicosomatica E Yoga, Torino; the Yoga for Peace Conference, Jerusalem; and the Yoga Research Society Conferences, Philadelphia.

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