The collaboration will use Temple’s Entropy metric to study how different meditation practices affect the body in real time.
Deepinder Goyal’s Temple is partnering with the Art of Living’s research arm to study how different meditation practices affect the body in real time.
Eternal founder Deepinder Goyal’s healthtech venture Temple has joined forces with the Sri Sri Institute for Advanced Research (SSIAR), the research division of the Art of Living Foundation, for a study focused on meditation and physiological changes.
The research will use Entropy, a metric that Temple describes as a new biomarker, to examine how the body responds during different meditation practices.
The collaboration comes as Temple works to build a scientific framework around data collected through its wearable technology.
Temple Wants to Measure Meditation in Real Time
Goyal said Temple has observed Entropy falling during meditation even when a person’s heart rate remains largely unchanged.
He described Entropy as a metric intended to reflect changes in the body’s parasympathetic and sympathetic states.
In a post on X, Goyal said he wants to determine which meditation practice produces the deepest parasympathetic response.
That question forms the central focus of Temple’s collaboration with SSIAR.
Rather than relying only on subjective accounts of how meditation feels, the research will examine physiological signals collected during different practices.
Deepinder Goyal Visits the Art of Living Ashram
Goyal also visited the Art of Living ashram as part of the research.
During the visit, he sought to involve spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in the study. According to Goyal, Ravi Shankar responded that “machines don’t work on me” and instead encouraged Temple’s team to conduct the research with experienced meditators at the ashram.
Goyal said the experience allowed the team to study practitioners with substantial meditation experience.
He has described Temple as a “science-first organisation” and said the findings from its work with the Art of Living will be published soon.
What Is Temple’s Entropy Metric?
Temple is developing a wearable device designed to collect physiological and wellness data.
Its privacy policy lists measurements including heart rate, heart-rate variability, respiratory rate, activity, sleep, and recovery metrics.
The company has positioned Entropy as a metric that can show changes in the body in real time.
Goyal previously said Temple compared Entropy readings with measurements from a metabolic cart during more than 100 cardio sessions in June.
The company is now applying the metric to a different setting: meditation.
That shift could allow Temple to examine physiological responses that traditional fitness measurements may not fully capture.
Temple’s Wearable Is Not a Medical Device
Temple’s terms of use state that its wearable is not a medical device.
The company says the device is intended for general wellness and informational purposes rather than for diagnosing, treating, curing, or preventing medical conditions.
That distinction remains important as Temple expands its scientific research.
The meditation study therefore focuses on physiological and wellness measurements rather than making medical claims about meditation or the device.
Temple Expands Its Scientific Team
The Art of Living collaboration is part of a broader effort by Temple to strengthen its scientific and clinical capabilities ahead of its wearable launch.
In August, Goyal announced that Temple was acquiring Longevous, an evidence-based longevity medicine practice based in London.
Longevous founders Robert Mohr and Avi Roy, along with their team, are joining Temple full-time.
Mohr has taken the role of chief medical officer. Goyal described him as a board-certified physician with nearly two decades of clinical experience who moved from emergency medicine into evidence-based longevity medicine.
Roy has joined as head of science. He is an Oxford-trained biomedical scientist and co-founder of Founders Health and UDA. He previously worked as a research fellow at the Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Medical Innovation at the University of Oxford.
Mohr and Roy Helped Validate Entropy
Goyal said Mohr and Roy initially used Temple for two months before joining the company.
During that period, they worked with Temple’s science team to pressure-test Entropy and the data generated by the wearable.
The two later became involved in Temple’s validation work and reviewed the company’s first scientific manuscripts before submission.
Their involvement adds clinical and research experience to Temple as the company prepares to expand its wearable technology.
Temple’s Meditation Research Could Add a New Layer to Wearable Data
Meditation has long been associated with changes in relaxation and autonomic activity, but measuring those changes in real time remains an active area of research.
Temple’s collaboration with SSIAR puts its Entropy metric into that research environment.
The key question is not simply whether meditation changes physiological signals. It is whether different meditation practices produce measurable differences in those signals, and whether Temple’s metric can reliably capture them.
For Goyal and Temple, the upcoming research could provide another test of Entropy beyond exercise and recovery.
The company says it plans to publish the results of its work with the Art of Living soon. Those findings could offer an early look at how Temple intends to connect wearable data, meditation practices, and scientific research.
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L-R: Temple founder Deepinder Goyal and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
