Isha Foundation - Isha Yoga

Isha Yoga

Isha Yoga is the masthead under which the Isha Foundation offers yoga programs. The word 'isha' means the formless divine. Isha Yoga's introductory flagship program is 'Inner Engineering.' It includes initiation into meditation and pranayama and the Shambhavi Mahamudra. Yoga classes are also conducted for corporate leaders to introduce them to what Sadhguru calls "inclusive economics," to introduce a sense of compassion and inclusiveness into today's economic scenario. A yoga course for the Indian Hockey team was conducted in 1996. Isha Foundation began conducting yoga programs in the United States in 1997 and, in 1998, yoga classes for life-term prisoners in Tamil Nadu prisons were initiated.

Isha Foundation regularly organises Mahasathsangs with Sadhguru in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka where he gives discourses, conducts meditations and answers the audience's questions. These Mahasathsangs are used as platforms to encourage tree-planting activities. Isha Foundation organises annual yatras to Mount Kailash and the Himalayas under the banners Kailash Manasarovar Sojourn and Himalayan Dhyan Yatra. The Kailash Sojourn led by Sadhguru is among the largest groups to make the trip to Kailash with 514 pilgrims making the journey in 2010.