Following the path breaking work in evaluating the therapeutic use of yoga in the management of bronchial asthma in 1984, the Swami Vivekananda Yoga Research Foundation was recognized as a Scientific & Industrial Research Organization [SIRO] from the Department of Scientific & Industrial Research, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India in the year 1988. The scientific accomplishments thereafter and the disciplined education based on the science and philosophy of yoga resulted in receiving University affiliations leading to a doctoral level program in yoga & allied sciences under the Faculty of Science, Bangalore University, and subsequently getting the recognition as a Deemed-to-be University by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, through the University Grants Commission in the year 2002. Currently, the parent organization, Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana (Research Foundation) [VYASA] sponsors the University, Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana (Research Foundation) [SVYASA]. SVYASA has published 152 research papers in national and international journals. Also SVYASA is equipped with a 200 bedded yoga therapy hospital.
            The Govt. of India, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Department of AYUSH has accorded the status of Center of Excellence in Yoga for S-VYASA. SVYASA has been designated as Center of Excellence in yoga and the Research Department is designated at the ICMR Center for Advanced Research in Yoga and Neurophysiology (ICMR CAR Y & N).