Thursday, 5 January 2012

ABOUT ISHA

Friends,

I am glad to start a new thread about Isha Yoga.Hope most of them would have heard about Isha Foundation.

I would like to give a small introduction about Isha Foundation and its activities.
Isha Yoga makes your life simple and easy.Isha Foundation, founded by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, is an entirely volunteer-run organisation.This is a non-profit organisation that brings well-being to all life.

I have attended one of the introductory program.I would say they are doing a great job. They not only teach yoga, but also the wholeness of life. Isha yoga If you want to know more please attend any one of the programs given below.

About Isha Yoga Programs:

Introductory Programs:

1.Inner Engineering - the peak of wellbeing, is a 3-7 day intensive program that offers tools to re-engineer one's self through the inner science of yoga.

2.“Hata Yoga is the science of using the body to prepare oneself for the ultimate possibility.”- SADHGURU: Hata Yoga, a 2-3 day residential program at our centers, is an opportunity to learn Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutation) along with a series of asanas (yoga postures). The program does not require any previous experience in yoga, nor particular physical agility.

3.Isha Yoga for Children: Isha Yoga for Children offers a unique possibility for every child to experience a joyful blossoming of their natural potential. Isha Yoga celebrates the natural gifts within every child including wonder and a sense of oneness with life.

4.Wholeness Program - A Weeklong Retreat:is an 8-day residential program, scientifically structured to produce a conducive environment for personal exploration and transformation. The program teaches asanas, Shakti Chalana Kriya - powerful breathing techniques for transforming one's energies, and Shoonya meditation - an effortless process of conscious non-doing

Advanced Programs:

1.SHOONYA MEDITATIONS is a refined and intensive advanced offering designed by Sadhguru to allow truth to be experienced, not just learned.The program follows a science which combines the dynamic Shakti Chalana Kriya (powerful and purifying breathing techniques utilized to encourage the flow of vital energy into the central energy channel, or sushumna nadi), and Shoonya meditation, an effortless process of conscious non-doing for 15 minutes.

2.Bhava Spandana Program-an Explosion of Blissfulness:a 4-day residential program is an advanced meditation program - an opportunity to experience levels of consciousness beyond the limitations of body and mind.

3.Samyama - an Invitation to the World of the Enlightened
is a residential program offered by Sadhguru. Participants spend 7 days in complete silence with long hours of intense meditation

About Isha Foundation:

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:

Action for Rural Rejuvenation ( Rural Rejuvenation ), 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 ( Project GreenHands), 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!

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

You can log on to the following site to Know more about Isha Yoga:
Isha Foundation - Home

Anyone here have already attended Isha yoga programs? If so, please share your comments/experience here.

cheers

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