International Journal of Yoga
The International Journal of Yoga is a multidisciplinary scientific Yoga journal, dedicated to Yoga research. The journal is an official publication of the Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana in Bengaluru, India and is published 3 times per year. This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. It publishes original research articles, review articles, short communications, perspective articles, case reports, Letters to the Editor related to Yoga. The main focus area for the journal is Yoga and Life Sciences. They encourage authors to submit articles which explain mechanisms of yoga, physiological changes and therapeutic benefits.
Fields of particular interest to the journal include, but are not limited to:
- Health benefits of yoga: efficacy as well as mechanism trials
- Psychophysiological effects of Yoga
- Meditation and neurocognitive changes
- Meditation and neuroimaging, cerebral blood flow changes
- Breath regulation and its health benefits, physiological impact on body
- Cellular and molecular mechanisms of Yoga
- Yoga and performance, perception, learning & cognition
- Yoga and neural plasticity, neural regulation, autonomic changes
- Yoga and metabolic changes
- Yoga and ageing
