Why Classical Hatha Yoga?

Who is Sadhguru?

Sadhguru is a yogi, mystic, visionary and the founder of Isha Foundation, a non-profit human-service organization, supported by over seven million volunteers in over 250 centers worldwide. Sadhguru presents yoga – the core of India’s spiritual strength and its gift to the world – as an inner science. Devised by Sadhguru, Inner Engineering or Isha Yoga has made a dimensional shift in how people address their wellbeing. Because of its scientific approach, Inner Engineering has garnered international appeal and acceptance from leading corporations, universities, and global forums like Google, General Electric, the World Bank, etc. Over 100 million people have been touched by Isha Yoga or Inner Engineering till date.

Under Sadhguru’s leadership, Isha Foundation has also shaped many pioneering and large-scale social initiatives like quality education for the poor, holistic health solutions, environmental stewardship, and bringing about rural rejuvenation through sports. This approach has gained worldwide recognition and reflects in Isha Foundation’s special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.

Isha Vidhya, a rural educational outreach initiative started by Sadhguru, has transformed the lives of over 100,000 children and Isha’s government school adoption program has been spectacularly successful. Inspired by Sadhguru’s environmental movement Project GreenHands, the people of Tamil Nadu have planted over 3 crore trees for which he was honored with the Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Puraskar – India’s highest environmental award for the year 2008. In October 2006, 256289 volunteers planted 852587 saplings in 6284 locations across 27 districts in Tamil Nadu setting a Guinness World Record in the process. Project GreenHands (PGH) has also been awarded the State Environment award in 2012 by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Tamil Nadu for the best organization working in this field. In 2010, it was awarded the Beyond Sports Award for using sports as a medium to impact community. From among 438 entries worldwide PGH won the award under the environment category.