Sat Bir Singh Khalsa


Sat Bir Singh Khalsa is a researcher in the field of body mind medicine, specializing in yoga therapy. Originally from Toronto, he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto, where he also began his practice of Kundalini Yoga under the tutelage of Yogi Bhajan. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Neuroscientist in the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, at the Departments of Medicine and Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston Massachusetts. Since 2007, Sat Bir Singh Khalsa has served as the Director of Research at both the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Massachusetts and the Kundalini Research Institute in New Mexico.

Research Studies

Sat Bir Singh Khalsa has participated in numerous mind-body studies. His work has been published in more than thirty papers. His most widely cited work explores human sleep cycles.
Several of his other papers explore the application of yoga as therapy for insomnia, performance anxiety, mental health in a secondary school setting, drug addiction, depression, and as a predictor of low body mass and low medication usage.

Media and Public Speaking

Sat Bir Singh Khalsa is often hired to speak about his research world wide, as the findings are helpful for the general public, government and NGOs, schools, universities and corporations alike.
In 2013 lead was hosted to lead an online panel discussion about the effect of yoga on health. In another example, he was positioned to share his expertise in an online radio show type conversation format with another notable yoga expert Dashama Konah Gordon
In 2017, Sat Bir Singh Khalsa was flown to Coventry, UK for a preparatory discussion about yoga and corporate research with Dr Haley Beer, a research professor at Warwick University and Dashama Konah Gordon the founder of Pranashama Yoga Institute. Sat Bir was invited to offer his consulting expertise from his background in medical research at Harvard to develop a yoga research project to demonstrate through qualitative research how yoga and mediation can help people in corporate settings access the Flow State to attain greater well being, creativity and productivity.

General Publications