The Origin
Isha Hatha Yoga School
Isha Hatha Yoga School delivers classical Hatha Yoga in its full depth and dimension. It is Sadhguru's vision to offer this ancient science in all its purity and make it available to every individual. As a step towards realizing this vision, he has devised the Hatha Yoga Teacher Training Program. In this program, Hatha Yoga will be taught as a living experience in the most beautiful ashram setting of the Isha Yoga Center, India under the grace of a living master. Upon completion of the program, trainees will have the privilege and fulfillment of bringing this knowledge to many more people.
Isha Yoga Center
Located at the foothills of the lush Velliangiri Mountains in Tamil Nadu, South India, the Isha Yoga Center is a sacred space for self-transformation dedicated to fostering inner transformation and creating an established state of wellbeing in individuals. The center offers all four major paths of yoga – kriya (energy), gnana (knowledge), karma (action), and bhakti (devotion), attracting people from all over the world. A large residential facility houses an active international community of monks, full-time volunteers, guests and visitors, making it a vibrant hub of spiritual growth and activity.
Isha Foundation
Sadhguru’s vision to transform the world has been unfolding over the past 30 years through programs designed to create an inclusive culture and establish global harmony. He established the Isha Foundation, an international non-profit service organization, through which he has offered powerful yoga programs that extend a rare opportunity for self-discovery, inner transformation, and empowerment for individuals to reach their full potential. He has started many large scale human service projects for rural upliftment, quality education for the poor, environmental stewardship and holistic health, which have impacted the lives of millions of people around the world, earning a special consultative status with the United Nations.
Isha Foundation is run entirely by volunteers inspired by their own personal transformation. Sadhguru has emphasized that humanity now has the necessary capability and resources to address every problem on the planet; the only missing element is willingness. Sadhguru has kindled this willingness within millions of people to extend their heads, hands, and hearts toward the betterment of humanity.
Isha Foundation is a flowering of Sadhguru’s guidance and wisdom. His deep experience and understanding of life, from the everyday to the ultimate, provide the inspiration for Isha Foundation’s vision of global harmony and individual empowerment.
Deeply touched and transformed by their personal experiences, volunteers bring to life Isha’s myriad activities, forming the vibrant force of dedication and love that makes Isha truly unique.
Sadhguru
Sadhguru is a yogi, mystic and visionary, and a prominent spiritual leader. An author, poet, and internationally-renowned speaker, Sadhguru’s wit and piercing logic provoke and widen our perception of life.
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Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serve as a reminder that yoga is not an esoteric discipline from an outdated past, but a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times. Probing, passionate and provocative, insightful, logical and unfailingly witty, Sadhguru's talks have earned him the reputation of a speaker and opinion-maker of international renown. With a celebratory engagement with life on all levels, Sadhguru's areas of active involvement encompass fields as diverse as architecture and visual design, poetry and painting, ecology and horticulture, music and sports.
Named one of India’s 50 most influential people, Sadhguru’s work has deeply touched the lives of millions worldwide through his transformational programs. Sadhguru has a unique ability to make the ancient yogic sciences relevant to contemporary minds, acting as a bridge to the deeper dimensions of life. His life and work are constant reminders that the inner sciences are not outdated philosophies, but rather, vitally relevant to our times. His approach does not ascribe to any belief system, but offers methods for self-transformation that are both proven and powerful.
Sadhguru – a sport enthusiast – has inspired millions of people in Tamil Nadu to take up sport. Isha Gramotsavam is an effort to revive the rural spirit through sports and community building – breaking through divisions of caste, creed and economic status, and helping people leave behind destructive addictions to drugs and alcohol. In Isha Gramotsavam 2016: 10,360 players, 880 teams, 4600 villages, from across rural Tamil Nadu participated in state-wide volleyball and throwball matches.
Sadhguru has been a delegate to the United Nations World Headquarters as the primary speaker on International Day of Yoga in 2016, addressed the Indian Economic Summit and has been a regular speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Further, some of the most renowned education institutes and universities across the world including Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Wharton, MIT, etc. have hosted Sadhguru’s talks. Sadhguru’s areas of active involvement encompass fields as diverse as architecture and visual design, poetry and painting, ecology and horticulture, sports, music, aviation, and he exudes an indiscriminate passion for all aspects of life.
