“Meditation and Sleep”, Dr. L. Schanzer, Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreaming
Meditation and Sleep 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. Some of these effects, such as inducing the relaxation response or as...
Does meditation-relaxation potentiate psychotherapy?
Lakshyan Schanzer MSPP, November 1990 Chairperson: Gila Lindsley, Ph.D. ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate how induction into either of two experimental conditions (meditation-relaxation or ordinary wakefulness) compare in their ability to increase phenomena considered useful to psychotherapy. These phenomena are: access to thoughts, access to...
Dr. Lakshyan’s Asanas
Asana is traditionally defined as a “comfortable seat” that is the seated posture used for meditation. More typically now in yoga, the term is used for any physical posture of Hatha yoga....
Dr. Lakshyan’s personal statement on yoga philosophy/methodology
Methods and Goals: 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. We share what has aided our own progress and what sustains...
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. Un-officially the concept began in 1971-2 while Lakshyan had been living, working full time, and teaching in New York City in the...