Dr. Rajashekara Reddy Poreddy
Neurosurgeon & Founder, Science of Yoga
Practising neurosurgery in Bangalore since 1998, and studying the same nervous system through yoga — breath, posture and meditation.
Surgery training, and a lifelong study of the same anatomy
- Practising since
- April 1998
- Clinical focus
- Neurosurgery & cancer care
- Based in
- Bangalore, India
- Medical training
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi
- Qualifications
- MS (General Surgery), DNB (General Surgery), FRCS (Neurosurgery)
- Languages
- Kannada, Hindi, Telugu, Urdu, English
- Founded
- Vayu Pain Relief Center, 2019
Two disciplines, one nervous system
As a neurosurgeon I have spent more than twenty-five years working with the brain, the spine and the nerves — in the operating theatre, and in recovery. What patients ask me most is rarely about surgery. It is about pain, sleep, breath and whether they can move again.
Vayu Pain Relief Center, which I founded in 2019, grew out of that gap. Rehabilitation asks the same question as surgery, only slower: what actually helps this person recover? That led me to yoga — and to studying it seriously rather than casually.
Yoga is not a rival to medicine here. It is the oldest documented set of techniques for working deliberately with attention and breathing, and those are precisely the levers the neuroscience literature keeps pointing to. Science of Yoga exists to read that literature honestly and to separate what is supported from what is only claimed.
My mantra Practise allopathy and naturopathy with discipline. Listen carefully to patients, friends and relatives. Communicate well, and keep up to date with the latest changes in neurosurgery and in yoga as it relates to human anatomy. Dr. Rajashekara Reddy Poreddy
Beyond the clinic
My own research looks at yoga and blood glucose in diabetes, yoga alongside rehabilitation, and the relationship between Indian pooja practice and the nervous system — including work comparing yoga with the anatomy of the neuro system.
The training behind the practice
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1998
Enters clinical practice
Takes up practice as a doctor in neurosurgery and cancer care in Bangalore, working directly with the brain, spine and nerves.
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2019
Founds Vayu Pain Relief Center
Establishes a rehabilitation-focused centre in Bangalore, working with people recovering from pain and injury.
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Present
Founds Science of Yoga
Turns the reading and research into a public resource — reading the neuroscience literature and reporting only what it supports.
What I am studying
Current lines of enquiry, approached the way I was trained to approach any clinical question — carefully, and with an honest account of the limits.
Yoga & blood glucose
Studying yoga as an intervention for blood glucose and diabetes, and where breath-led practice fits alongside medical management.
Yoga & rehabilitation
What structured, repeatable practice can do for recovery — and for the neuro-muscular work that recovery depends on.
Indian culture & the nervous system
Looking at pooja practice, breathwork and traditional technique through the lens of the anatomy of the neuro system.