Andhra University Yoga Village - Vizag

is the Department of Yoga & Consciousness, under Andhra University, Visakhapatnam">The Department of Yoga & Consciousness was established by Prof. K. Rama Krishna Rao when he was the Vice-Chancellor of the University during the VI Plan period. It was called The Institute for Yoga & Consciousness. The Institute was set up by the University for Fundamental Research on mind-matter interaction, to undertake empirical and conceptual research on yoga and allied disciplines and to carry out extension programs related to them. The department is scientific and secular in its approach. The department is located in the Yoga Village overlooking the Bay of Bengal on the Beach Road in Visakhapatnam

The Institute had two functionally independent wings; one for research and the other for extension activities.