Our offerings
Upa Yoga
Upa-yoga is a simple yet powerful system of exercise that activates the joints, muscles, and energy system. Based on a sophisticated understanding of the body’s mechanics, Upa-yoga dispels inertia in the body’s energy and brings ease to the whole system. It relieves physical stress and tiredness.
Benefits:
- Relieves physical stress and tiredness
- Strengthens the joints and muscles
- Rejuvenates the body after periods of inactivity
- Negates the effects of jetlag and long travel
Angamardana
A series of 31 dynamic processes, rooted in yoga, to invigorate the body and reach peak physical fitness. Angamardana means gaining complete mastery over the limbs, organs and other parts of the body. It needs no fitness equipment.
Benefits:
- Strengthens the spine, skeletal and muscular systems
- Builds physical strength, fitness and tenacity
- Invigorates the body, bringing a sense of lightness and freedom in the body
- Prepares the body for Hatha Yoga
- Revitalizes the body including the muscles, blood circulation, skeletal and nervous systems
- Helps in weight-loss
Surya Kriya
Surya Kriya is a potent yogic practice of tremendous antiquity, designed as a holistic process for health, wellness, and complete inner well-being. “Surya” means “sun,” and “kriya” means “inner energy process.” Surya Kriya activates the solar plexus to raise the samat prana, or solar heat, in the system. It also balances a person’s left and right energy channels, leading to stability of the body and stillness of the mind. This strong foundation becomes the basis to explore higher dimensions of life.
Benefits:
- Develops mental clarity and focus
- Remedies weak constitutions
- Boosts vigor and vitality
- Balances the body, mind and energies
- Rejuvenates all the major organ systems including balancing hormonal levels
- Supports one to become meditative and experience peacefulness and joy
Surya Shakti
Surya means “Sun,” and Shakti means “Energy”. Surya Shakti is a complete process, which is largely physical in nature. If you do 108 cycles of Surya Shakti, it will make you fit and you will not need any other form of exercise.
Benefits:
- Brings about physical fitness and overall wellbeing
- Makes the sinews and ligaments of the body strong
- Increases mental alertness and focus
- Creates a basis for one to move into higher states of energy
- Increases physical strength & stamina
- Realigns the musculo-skeletal system
- Increases energy levels
Yogasanas
In an untrained state, the human body is a constant manifestation of various levels of compulsiveness. By consciously forming the body into a certain posture, one creates a conducive passage for energy flow that can elevate one’s consciousness. Yogasanas are a way of aligning the inner system and adjusting it to the celestial geometry, thereby becoming in sync with the existence and naturally achieving a chemistry of healthfulness, joyfulness, blissfulness, and above all, balance.
Benefits:
- Relief of chronic health conditions
- Evolution of body and mind towards a higher possibility
- Stabilization of the body, mind and energy system
- Deceleration of the aging process
Bhuta Shuddhi
The system of yoga called bhuta shuddhi, meaning purification of the elements, is the fundamental process that underlies every other yogic practice. Simple yet powerful Bhuta Shuddhi processes are offered as a part of Isha Hatha Yoga programs, allowing one to cleanse the body and prepare for more powerful sadhanas.
Benefits:
- Keeps the system in harmony and balance
- Prepares the system to handle powerful states of energy
- Enhances the capabilities of the physical body, mind and energy system
- Creates the basis to gain complete mastery over the human system
Bhastrika Kriya
Bhastrika Kriya is a powerful kriya, which purifies the blood and increases lung capacity. It can be of asssitance to people with asthma, allergy, sinusitis, hormonal imbalance and skin disease.
Benefits:
- It purifies the blood and makes breathing better
- Improves lung capacity and relaxes the system
- Benefits those with the following conditions: asthma, allergy, sinusitis, diabetes, hormonal imbalance, skin diseases.
Shanmukhi Mudra
Shanmukhi mudra is a simple but subtle practice that brightens and rejuvenates the face and eyes and brings about a state of balance leading toward increased awareness and meditativeness.
Benefits:
- Improves vision
- Brightens the eyes and face. It improves the aura in the face. People concerned about their beauty can do it, actors can do it.
- Helps turn a person inward, prepares one for pratyahara.
- Rejuvenates different parts of the face, including helping with ailments related to nose ears, eyes.
- Helps relieve vertigo and tinnitus
- Enhances awareness
- Brings about mental balance
Eye-care Practices
Eye care practices we offer are a natural way to improve vision related issues which many a times stem from routine patterns of sitting in front of computers, televisions, phones etc.
Benefits:
- Strengthens the eye muscles
- Improves eyesight
- Helps relieve eye strain from prolonged exposure to computers, bringing relaxation to eyes
- Recommended for those with Myopia and Hypermetropia
Yoga for Pregnant women
Practices designed specifically for pregnant women to help them deal with physiological and emotional changes that a woman goes through during those 9 months. Along with the mother, these practices help in neurological development of the child. It also assists in normal delivery.
Benefits:
- Strengthens the pectoral muscles to avoid pain in the shoulders, shoulder blades and to avoid spinal problems
- Activates and stretches the spine, which benefits the neurological development of the child
- Helps to prepare the body for natural birth and make delivery easier
Yoga for Children
The programs are designed to improve concentration, memory, health and wellbeing, and to channel a child’s energy so that their natural potential flourishes, transforming them into responsive, loving and joyous beings.
Jala Neti
- Helps with the diseases of eyes, nose, throat
- Removes excess mucus and pollutants from nasal passages and sinuses
- Helps relieve insomnia, tirednes, improves quality of sleep
- Prevents and helps with respiratory tract diseases like asthma, pneumonia, bronchitis
- Relieves cold, allergies, sinusitis
- Helps with tonsillitis, allergic rhinitis, hay fever
- Relieve migrane and headaches, anxiety, stress release and brings tranquility
- Helps with epilepsy
Why Isha™ Hatha Yoga?
Isha Hatha Yoga programs are an unparalleled opportunity to learn classical hatha yoga in its full depth and vibrancy. The programs are conducted by highly trained teachers and are not taught merely for physical fitness and strength. They are a holistic process of naturally achieving mastery over the body and mind, so as to come to a state of health, joy, and bliss. The programs are an extensive exploration of hatha yoga and revive various dimensions of this ancient science that are largely absent in the world today.
Isha Hatha Yoga School delivers classical Hatha Yoga in its full depth and dimension. It is Sadhguru’s vision to offer this ancient science in all its purity and make it available to every individual. As a step towards realizing this vision, he has devised the Hatha Yoga Teacher Training Program. In this program, Hatha Yoga is taught as a living experience in the most beautiful ashram setting of the Isha Yoga Center, India under the grace of a living master. Teachers at Isha undergo 1750+ hours of intense training upon successful completion of which they have the privilege and fulfillment of bringing this knowledge to many more people