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“This life for me is an endeavor to help people experience and express their divinity. May you know the bliss of the Divine.”

- SADHGURU

About Isha Foundation

Isha Foundation is a non-religious, not-for-profit, public service organization, which addresses all aspects of human wellbeing.and its founded by Sadhguru in 1992, is an entirely volunteer-run, international nonprofit organization dedicated to cultivating human potential. The Foundation is a human service organization that recognizes the possibility of each person to empower another - restoring global community through inspiration and individual transformation.

Isha Foundation is operated by over 250,000 volunteers from more than 150 city-based centers spread worldwide. The Foundation is headquartered at Isha Yoga Center, set in the lush rainforest at the base of the Velliangiri Mountains in southern India, and at the Isha Institute of Inner Sciences on the spectacular Cumberland Plateau in middle Tennessee, USA.

At the core of the Foundation's activities is a customized system of yoga called Isha Yoga. Isha Yoga distills powerful, ancient yogic methods for a modern person, creating peak physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. This basis of total wellbeing accelerates inner growth, allowing each individual to tap the wealth of vibrant life within oneself. Sadhguru's introductory program, Inner Engineering, introduces Shambhavi Maha Mudra - a simple but powerful kriya (inner energy process) for deep inner transformation.

Isha Foundation also implements several large-scale human service projects to support individual growth, revitalize the human spirit, rebuild communities, and restore the environment. These include:

* Isha Vidhya ( www.ishavidhya.org), a pioneering English medium, computer-based education initiative to be established in 206 new village schools in rural southern India by 2014.

* Action for Rural Rejuvenation ( www.ruralrejuvenation.org ), a rural revitalization program offering medical care, community rehabilitation, and human upliftment to more than 2,500 destitute villages in rural southern India.

* Project Green Hands ( www.projectgreenhands.org), a massive public reforestation effort aiming to plant 114 million trees in the next ten years, restoring 33% green cover in Tamil Nadu, India. The 2007 mass planting goal is 25M trees!


Together with its active and dedicated volunteer base, the Foundation's activities serve as a thriving model for human empowerment and community revitalization throughout the world.

"A powerful space consecrated for inner unfoldment, having a deeply dedicated community which is an embodiment of love and commitment to all." - SADHGURU

Isha Foundation is almost entirely volunteer run. Every single action and activity of the Foundation and its worldwide Centers is done on a volunteer basis.

Isha Foundation works to manifest the all-encompassing Self in every human being. Sadhguru maintains that divinity is inherent in every aspect of life, and a combination of hands (karma yoga), heart (bhakti yoga) and head (jnana yoga) is the most effective formula for inner growth development. Administration of this international organization gives over 250,000 volunteers the opportunity to grow through selfless action.

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About the Founder

The Isha Yoga Centre is a non-profit 100% voluntary organisation. Its founder Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is an [Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev] enlightened master who has transformed thousands of people from struggle and disappointment to peace and fulfilment in India. One of the most profound mystics and yogis of modern times, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev firmly believes that his life is an endeavour, "To help people experience and express their divinity." Jaggi Vasudev was born in Mysore, India. A different and independent child who did not fit into the logical ways of the world, he started yogic practices like Pranayams and Asanas under the tutelage of Shree Raghavendra Rao popularly known as Malladihalli Swami as early as the age of 13 years.

When he was 25 years old he had a deep experience of the Self that came to him and made him renounce all the material prosperity that he had achieved. From then onwards he dedicated his entire life to the sharing of those experiences. His important teachings revolve around the spiritual unfolding of the inner being and are a blend of simple yoga techniques and ancient spiritual wisdom. He explains how one can channelise one's energies by simple techniques of pranayams and meditation.

About the Ashram

Located against the backdrop of Velliangiri Mountains known as Dakshin Kailash situated in Coimbatore district with 150 acres, the Center founded by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev that reflects the stillness and the splendor of the surrounding majestic mountains. The Center houses the Isha Foundation which is devoted to advancing physical, mental and spiritual health through yogic science. The Foundation manages a unique Dhyanalingam meditation shrine and multi-religious temple, over 25 Yoga centers, an Ashram and hospital.

Architecturally, the Isha Yoga Center is a well planned and laid out place. The triangular block houses the brahmacharis and brahmacharinis or the nuns, who come from varied backgrounds, including the corporate world. The thatched meditation hall, where residential programs are organized, stands next to a large open ground. Interestingly, during Maha Shivaratri, the biggest event at the ashram, 50,000 people gather here.

Programmes

'Inner Freedom for the Imprisoned' is one of the most remarkable of Isha Yoga Centre's programs. First conducted at the Coimbatore (India) jail in 1992 by the Sadhguru, affectionately known as Jaggi, this seven-day workshop transformed the lives of 67 convicts serving life terms.
The ashram conducts the Sahaj Sthithi Yoga, a form of yoga, enough to integrate into one's daily life. The course is held for 13 day with 3 hours a day workshop. The Sahaj Sthithi Yoga amalgamates dynamic raja yoga practices, breathing techniques and shoonya meditation or an effortless process of conscious non-doing. It stimulates the release of physical, mental and emotional blocks and activates spontaneous expression of vital energy.

The workshop is presented through centers in over 50 centers and towns in Tamil Nadu. Also, under the Sadhguru's guidance, yoga programmes are being held in various parts of the world including, India and USA. Sadhguru's programmes have changed many tensed, indecisive temperamental, rigid and timid minds to calm, relaxed, effortless and dynamic ones The programmes with pranayam and meditation are very effective for stress relief, depression, hypertension, asthma, diabetes and other psychosomatic diseases. Memory, concentration and work productivity can be increased significantly.