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Dr Swami Gitananda Giri, medical doctor and accomplished yogi, founded the Ananda Ashram16 at Pondicherry, India, in 1968. Known as the Lion of Pondicherry, he also founded ICYER and Yoganjali Natyalayam, which are involved in teaching yoga to the young people of Pondicherry. His son and successor Dr Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani is continuing his work, and also currently serves as director of CYTER,17 the Centre for Yoga Therapy, Education and Research, in Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth. Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth, a Deemed-to-be-University in Pondicherry, is rated in the top 100 universities of India in the NIRF (National Institutional Ranking Framework). It runs one of the rare yoga therapy centers operating from within a medical institution. CYTER offers yoga therapy to patients of the Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute (MGMCRI); provides yoga training to all the university’s medical, dental, and nursing students; and facilitates postgraduate courses in yoga therapy ranging from certificates and diplomas up to doctoral degree (PhD) level. CYTER is also a member school of the IAYT in the US, and the first university-based yoga therapy center in India to be on this list. It has completed two dozen research projects, with 106 papers published in high-impact journals.18