Swami Kuvalayananda

Swami Kuvalayananda was a yoga guru, researcher, and educator primarily known for his pioneering research into the scientific foundations of yoga. He started research on yoga in 1920, and published the first journal specifically devoted to studying yoga, Yoga Mimamsa, in 1924. Most of his research took place at the Kaivalyadhama Health and Yoga Research Center at Lonavala which he founded in 1924. He has had a profound influence on the development of yoga as exercise.