Shirley Telles completed M.B.B.S. and subsequently M.Phil and Ph.D. in Neurophysiology from the National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences , Bangalore, India. 
She directs research at Patanjali Research Foundation in Haridwar, India. And already done  161 research publications in in journals indexed in international bibliographic databases collaborated in 18 books chapters and 4 published books. She received an award from The Indian Council of Medical Research, The John Templeton Foundation And a Fulbright Fellowship from  J.William Fulbright Foundation, U.S.A to the study “Functional magnetic resonance imaging in meditators”. Dr. Telles is an enthusiastic practitioner of yoga herself.