Word: yogic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yoga are usually more interested in the philosophical and religious than the gymnastic aspects of the system. In India, on the other hand, the most extraverted yogin to appear in centuries, Swami Kuvalayananda, thinks so highly of the physical side of yoga that he has developed his own special yogic system of physical culture and physical therapy. He maintains a health centre at Bombay...
...Swami Kuvalayananda's students, Dr. Kovoor Thomas Behanan of Yale, has now published the first physiological analysis of yogic exercises, most of which he found hygienically beneficial...
After gathering his yoga experience, Dr. Behanan returned to Yale's Institute of Human Relations where he used occidental psychological and physiological apparatus to analyze the effects of yogic practices, which he continued as much for self as for Science. Before he took up yoga he suffered frequent headaches, lacked vigor. Now: "No work, physical or mental, could tire me so rapidly as it did before. . . . My mental-emotional life is no longer a blind catch-as-catch...