“Meditation and Sleep”, Dr. L. Schanzer, Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreaming
For thousands of years practitioners of meditation have asserted therapeutic effects. Within the past few decades technology has evolved and scientific interest has moved towards objectifying the effects of meditation practices....
Does Meditation-Relaxation Potentiate Psychotherapy?
This experimental study investigated how induction into either the state of meditation or the state of ordinary wakefulness compared in their ability to increase phenomena considered useful to psychotherapy....
An Assessment of the Effects of Yoga on the School Problem Behavior of Seventh Grade Students
Yoga Disciplines and Behavior: An Assessment of the Effects of Yoga on the School Problem Behavior of Seventh Grade Students Lakshyan Schanzer Hunter College, CUNY Spring 1977 Chairperson: Ed Yarosz, Ph.D. ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate how one approach to Affective Learning (Integral Hatha Yoga) can...
Dr. Lakshyan’s Personal Statement on Yoga Philosophy/Methodology
Yoga is a vast subject of never-ending depth. Yoga helps us to realize our full capacity for being human. Regardless of tradition or ‘name-brand’, as yoga teachers, we teach what we know....
History of The Yoga Studio – BodyMind Therapies
The Yoga Studio began as the ‘brain child’ of Dr. Lakshyan Schanzer. Officially it was established in Worcester during the summer of 1979....