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Yoga education has come a long way in this country and of late elsewhere across the globe. Beginning with crash courses, camps, certificate, Diploma among many a other, these days you have courses at the Degree, Post Graduate and Ph.D level too. “Thanks to the ever-increasing curiosity, enthusiasm and commitment towards learning Yoga, it has become a powerful tool for self-employment”, says Dr Nagaratna Raghuram, Medical Director of Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandana Samsthana Arogyadhama(S-VYASA), here. S-VYASA, the only University dedicated to Yoga in the country: “In fact, these days you have any number of educational institutions offering many Yoga related courses. However, S-VYASA happens to be the only University in the country completely dedicated to Yoga studies”, she says. Eight Central Universities have separate Yoga Departments: “For record sake, Bihar School of Yoga (BSY) hitherto based out of Munger in Bihar happens to be the first institution imparting Yoga courses in th...