VEETHIKAJune 25, 2026Himanshu Pandey, Ikhlas Ahmad
Academic stress has become a significant issue in contemporary education, affecting students’ academic performance, mental health, emotional balance, and motivation. Many factors, such as heavy syllabi, frequent examinations, competitive learning environments, and high expectations from parents and institutions, often create pressure that exceeds coping abilities. The present study examines the...
In Nigeria, where yoga is largely unknown and underused, recent socio-economic challenges- including inflation, burnout, and growing mental health challenges – make the need for a change in educational leadership model apparent. This paper projects a yoga-informed approach to educational leadership as a full, invigorative model for planning sustainable learning environments. Rooted in the...
Chronic stress and nervous system dysregulation affect a substantial share of the global workforce, with women reporting measurably higher rates of occupational stress and burnout than men. This paper examines the theoretical foundations and documented outcomes of somatic wellness approaches for stress reduction and nervous system support, with particular attention to interoception-based,...
Aim of the study: This comprehensive review aims to compile the corpus of research on the therapeutic effectiveness of yoga in enhancing the mental health and well-being of new mothers with symptoms of postpartum depression. The present study is an attempt to look at how yoga practice in the postnatal period after delivery of the baby can help in reducing the symptoms of postpartum depression...
Compassion-based meditation practices, including Tonglen, offer promise for emotional self-regulation, yet Tonglen remains underutilized in contemporary clinical and applied settings. This paper introduces Hope Breath, a brief three-minute adaptation of Tonglen meditation designed to simultaneously downregulate negative emotions and upregulate positive states. The aim was to provide...
This article proposes a definition of advanced meditation which in concise form is the states, stages, and endpoints that arise with the maturation and mastery of awareness skills. Advanced meditation involves experiential and structural mental changes, sometimes radical, to volition, affect, cognition, and self-related processing in the direction of effortlessness, intentional control,...
iScienceJune 19, 2026Lukas Moebus, Manuel Spitschan, Felix Ehrlenspiel
Among all vital functions, breathing is uniquely under both autonomic and volitional control. This dual control enables conscious recognition and regulation of arousal. While breathwork affects arousal and relaxation, research rarely investigates the impact of specific parameters or individual differences. In a randomized crossover trial (N = 42), university students practiced three 5-min,...
This chapter introduces Prana-Centered AI, a pioneering framework that blends ancient yogic energetics with modern intelligent wellness technologies. While contemporary AI-powered wearables excel at tracking physiological data, they overlook the subtle dimensions of human vitality described in classical yoga, Prana, Nadis, Chakras, and the subtle body. Prana-Centered AI bridges this gap through...
Body and breath work has 2,000-year-old roots in China. Learning how to calm the polyvagal nerve system through focused breathwork, meridian tapping, and body movement is a key part of healing trauma and restoring emotional well-being.
Understanding the linkage between slow paced breathing (SPB), slow cortical potentials (SCP) and the human consciousness could help to improve practicing strategies in the field of mental well-being. Providing 25 individuals performing two different breathing cycles (6 s-cycle and 10 s-cycle), which were accompanied by the sound of a humming gong, while measuring a 64-channel EEG, our study...