This thesis examines the image of Ardhanarisvara (Lord who is half woman) in three distinct areas of Indian culture, specifically Indian iconography, yoga theory, and Saiva devotional poetry. Using a feminist theoretical perspective, this thesis challenges the meanings ascribed …
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This study includes texts by six women: Karaikkāl Ammayar (seventh century from Tamil Nadu), Antal (eighth century; Tamil Nadu), Mahadevi Akka (twelfth century, Karnataka), Lalla Ded (fourteenth century, Kashmir), Mirabai (sixteenth century, Rajasthan), and Bahinā Bai (seventeen…
The purpose of this dissertation is to develop a yoga therapy program for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars with symptoms of PTSD. The program aims to help veterans to use their body as a tool in therapy, to develop self-soothing skills, and to process, organize and inte…
A radically alternative vision of the fakir is given in surviving medieval (Bng. madhya-y˙ug, “Middle Age”) and pre-modern textual sources that predate and coincide with the colonial period in Bengal, such as the widely influential 17th century Yoga Kalandar text as well as Bāul…
Background. Research shows that lumbar stenosis is a degenerative disease that affects almost 50% of people over the age of 60. Patients with lumbar stenosis typically have radiating symptoms to one lower extremity. These low-back-pain patients have the option of rehabilitating …
My dissertation traces the life of Japanese oil painter Kazuki Yasuo (1911-1974). One of postwar Japan’s most significant oil painters, he is not well-represented in English Language scholarship on the period, a lacuna this dissertation seeks to help rectify. The introduction pr…
Research indicates that yoga and its practices serve as an effective intervention to reduce anxiety ladened comportments and behavioral dysregulation in students who present with a history of aggression and acute emotionality. Thus, this analytic research design examined why the…
There has been a lack of mental health research about the Asian Indian population, especially amongst Asian Indian Americans. This may be due to the conception that this population has relative occupational and educational advances in America; however, this idea of the “model mi…
Background: Approximately 6% to 14% of veterans suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and many continue to experience symptoms with conventional treatment. To improve patient care outcomes, the Veterans Health Administration set forth a complementary and integrative …
This thesis prioritizes the use of Sanskrit primary texts and adopts a philological and comparative philosophical methodology. It investigates the relationship between the enlightened mental state which occurs penultimately to liberation in relationship to the experience of libe…
Spirituality practices like meditation, mindfulness, and movement (i.e., yoga) have become widely used and researched in the last 20 years among adults in both clinical and nonclinical settings (Bohlmeijer, Prenger, Taal, & Cuijipers, 2010; Burke, 2010; Ludwig & Kabat-Zinn, 2008…
William James considered Swami Vivekananda the exemplary example of a monist, and he comes to reject Vivekananda's philosophy because it ultimately did not suit his active temperament. However, judging from his assessment of Vivekananda's philosophy, it appears James had a limit…
Post-modern society is characterized by tremendous growth in information technology, globalization, and increasing cut-throat competition, and their unfortunate results on humanity, the natural environment, and climate. The drive for relentless profit by leadership of organizati…
This dissertation examines the life and works of a nineteenth- to early twentieth-century Tamil yogi named Sri Sabhapati Swami (Śrī Sabhāpati Svāmī, Capāpati Cuvāmikaḷ, ca. 1828–1923/4), specifically the “translocalization” of his unique vernacular literature on a system of yoga…
Psychology in the United States (U.S.) is partially constituted by a cultural history of intellectual imperialism that undermines its altruistic intent and prevents disciplinary reflexivity. The scholarship and clinical application of Yoga exemplifies the way U.S. psychology con…
As research on injuries, performance anxiety, and general wellbeing of performing musicians broadens, many institutions and orchestra have begun to integrate health and wellness programs into their curriculums. Music is both a physical and mental discipline and the systemic prac…