page_title: Jaggi Vasudev
section_title: Yoga programmes
hierarchical_section_title: Jaggi Vasudev / Isha Foundation / Yoga programmes
caption_attribution_description: English: A photograph of Sadhguru conducting an Inner Engineering class at BSE Mumbai.
context_page_description: Jaggi Vasudev, known publicly as Sadhguru, is an Indian yogi and author.
  Vasudev earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Mysore and has been teaching yoga in southern India since 1982. In 1992, he established Isha Foundation near Coimbatore, which runs an ashram, hosts a yoga centre, and has been involved in various activities in spirituality, education, and the environment.
  Vasudev is the author of several books, including Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy. As a public speaker he has spoken at the United Nation's Millennium World Peace Summit, the British parliament's House of Lords, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the International Institute for Management Development. He has also spoken at the annual World Economic Forum in 2007, 2017 and 2020.
  In 2017, he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, by the Government of India for his services in social services.
context_section_description: After the establishment of the ashram, Vasudev began conducting yoga programmes on the premises of the newly established Isha Yoga Centre in 1994, including a course for the Indian Hockey team in 1996. In 1997, he began conducting classes in the United States and from 1998 onwards, for life-term prisoners in Tamil Nadu prisons.
  The flagship program is titled 'Inner Engineering', which introduces people to simple Yoga practices and the Shambhavi Mahamudra; corporate leadership forms a core audience of these programs. It views depression as the result of a false widespread belief about an ability to change the world according to one's desires, and offers to teach the technology of mental well-being, to help one acclimatise with unavoidable work rigors. Vasudev has frequently cited a study by the University of California which supposedly found mahamudra to lead to highly elevated levels (221%) of neuronal regeneration in the brain; it has since been noted that the study appeared in a fringe journal published by a discredited alternative medicine advocate and his allies, and that it merely reports lower levels of subjective stress from a medium-sized uncontrolled group practising yoga daily for six weeks.
caption: Jaggi Vasudev conducting the Inner Engineering Program at the Bombay Stock Exchange
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