page_title: Isha Foundation
section_title: Isha Yoga
hierarchical_section_title: Isha Foundation / Isha Yoga
caption_attribution_description: English: A photograph of Sadhguru conducting an Inner Engineering class at BSE Mumbai.
context_page_description: Isha Foundation is a non-profit, spiritual organisation founded in 1992 near Coimbatore, India, by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. It hosts the Isha Yoga Centre, which offers yoga programs under the name of Isha Yoga. The foundation is run entirely by volunteers and it has over 9 million volunteers.
  The word isha means "the formless divine".
context_section_description: The Yoga Centre, founded at Isha Foundation in 1994, offers yoga programmes under the name Isha Yoga. This customised system of yoga combines postural yoga with chanting, breathing (prāṇāyāma), and meditation. Isha Yoga does not belong to a lineage (paramparā), and its practitioners believe it to be based on the founding guru's unique insight.
  Yoga classes conducted for business leaders are intended to "introduce a sense of compassion and inclusiveness" to economics.
  A yoga course for the Indian national 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.
caption: Sadhguru conducting an Inner Engineering class at BSE Mumbai.
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