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Brain Health With Inner Engineering Meditation

NCT05455814 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 77

Last updated 2026-05-14

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Summary

This study will explore whether a 21-minute meditation practice called Shambhavi Mahamudra Kriya leads to changes in brain health and explore how it affects cognitive and physiological function.

Conditions

  • Meditation
  • Brain; Agenesis

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Shambhavi Madamudra Kriya

The intervention is taught at the Inner Engineering program offered by non-profit Isha Foundation as online as well as in-person formats. It incorporates a combination of different breathing patterns and meditative components. The intervention training provides precise, step by step and easy to follow instructions on how to perform this practice. Performed in a seated posture, this is a simple, safe and accessible intervention that requires no previous experience of meditation. The intervention selected for this study was shown to significantly reduce perceived stress, enhance self-reported general well-being, improve positive emotions, mindfulness, sleep, engagement, relationships, and may promote enhanced Heart Rate Variability and Sympathovagal balance.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Balachundar Subramaniam, MD, MPH · Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-01-06
Primary Completion
2025-12-16
Completion
2025-12-17

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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