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“For Amy Weintraub, depression was a lack of feeling and paralysis; she compares it to ‘an
element of blank,’ as Emily Dickinson called it. She suffered from cognitive impairment; she lost
things, forgot meetings and ‘moved as though through a fog.’
“That changed when Ms. Weintraub began practicing yoga daily. ‘ got a brochure in the mail for
Kripalu Center in Massachusetts,’she says. ‘here was no literature at the time about it. I decided
to go, and I loved the yoga. There was an immediate feel-good effect, I felt really connected.’
“Ms. Weintraub was on antidepressants and seeing a therapist at the time, who had told her
‘You’re one of those people who will always have empty pockets.’ At the yoga class, her
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“A lot of research has been carried out to examine the effect of yoga on neuro-physiological,
hormonal and metabolic parameters but while it is of interest that yogis can control their heartbeat
or change their brain waves, the crucial question from the psychological point of view is whether
they can control their mental fluctuations. Indian tradition claims that the only way to understand
the impact of yoga on the subjective states is by experiencing it yourself.
“A few years ago, I took a year off from my work to do just that. I apprenticed myself to a guru
and devoted myself to yoga, spending about five hours every day on yogic practices. Every
evening, I would spend an hour or two recording my observations regarding what had happened
to my own mental state. After the completion of one year, I once again stood outside my
experiences and examined whether my daily observations revealed any consistent patterns. It is
my understanding that if a few fellow professionals go through similar training and report their
conclusions in a similar manner, some commonalities can be culled out to form a body of
phenomenological knowledge around the yoga technique. Walsh has done such an exercise for
vipasana meditation but I am not aware of any with respect to yoga.
“This paper gives an account of my exploration.”
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