Welcome!

The Yoga Care Foundation collaborates with yoga leaders, alternative healthcare practitioners, medical experts and like-minded organizations to determine the most current and authentic findings around yoga and its positive impact on health and quality of life.

Thank you for your interest in our work. We invite you read more about our approach below and sign up for our email list to get involved in future projects, including personalized health coaching, corporate wellness and more.

Please consider supporting our work with a tax-deductible donation if it is within your means. 

OUR APPROACH

We intend to help shift the health care conversation from disease-based management to a focus on proactive healthy lifestyles.

We are open to the study of all styles of yoga and intend to cross-pollinate with studies on the healing benefits of meditation, acupuncture, bodywork and other mind-body modalities.

We envision a new paradigm of open-access holistic wellness research that uplifts science as a shared commons.

We believe that the results of scientific research should be made widely and immediately available to the public in readily understandable terminology—for the benefit of all.

We recognize that there is an untapped resource in the yoga community as many people have expressed an interest in contributing to empirical research.

We are concerned with the bleak funding prospects that scientists currently face, that grants tend to support research where the questions are almost assuredly known in advance. Therefore, we will develop our own grant program to support innovative research.

We are committed to having our research efforts actively support public health and outreach instead of being tucked away in academic journals.

We know that sustained behavioral change is the ultimate measure of a successful health intervention.

We have come together to evolve research practices to deeper knowledge to accepted wisdom to social improvement.

And we invite you to join us because we embrace the synergy of the collective.

And we also want you to join us because we will get a lot more done together, and it will probably be more fun! So let’s get started…