1. "Yoga as science" (an ancient view)—refers to the serious and rigorous way in which yoga has been pursued as means to profound levels of understanding, compassion, freedom, and health extending back to before the beginnings of recorded history. The methods here are primarily subjective.
2. "Science of yoga" (a modern view)—refers to the serious and rigorous way in which many dedicated researchers—especially over the past century—have investigated the effects of yoga practice with the tools of modern science.  The methods here are primarily objective.
3. "Science in the light of yoga" (an all time and timeless view)—the focus of our enquiry here—refers to a novel third possibility—a view and a method that simultaneously honors and seamlessly integrates both the apparently subjective and the apparently objective—a "nondual" view and method.

There are now many tens of thousands of individuals in the developed world who have practiced yoga seriously—in one or more of its many forms—for decades.  Among these are a smaller number who have also had formal training in science—in one or more of its many forms. Thus we are now beginning to see the dialog between yoga and science mature and take a new turn—one in which the "findings" of yoga are beginning to reflect back on science itself.

What does yoga have to teach science?

Might it even be possible for yoga and science to come together in such a way as to yield a newly useful kind of enterprise?

The exploratory work of our director, Scott Virden Anderson, in recent years suggests an affirmative answer, "yes, yoga science—understood in this sense of 'science in the light of yoga'—does appear to be something new, potentially significant, and worthy of wider investigation, especially with the help of a novel scientific view of time—the All Time Spectrum:

The Yoga Science Foundation is dedicated to this wider investigation.  We propose to focus our initial discussion here around the All Time Spectrum because it provides a framework in the consensual language of science that appears to not exclude any features of yoga.  It is a new tool that may help us develop a genuine nondual science.

Please explore our website and let us know what you think, and especially how we might further this purpose by working together.