Sadhguru

Sadhguru (Jaggi Vasudev) is one of the most prominent and influential spiritual teachers of the contemporary world — a yogi and mystic from South India whose ability to speak about inner dimensions in the language of modern science, business, and public discourse has brought the experiential dimension of yoga to a global audience of hundreds of millions.

Born in Mysore in 1957 into a physician’s family, he spent his early adulthood as a successful businessman and poultry farmer with an interest in motorcycling and nature. A spontaneous mystical experience on a hill called Chamundi in 1982 — in which he lost the boundary between himself and the universe for a period he could not determine — transformed his understanding of what life was and what it was for. He left his business, spent months living in a cave processing what had happened to him, and then began teaching.

He founded the Isha Foundation in 1992, which has become one of the largest yoga teaching organisations in the world, with millions of volunteers and centres on every continent. The flagship programme, Inner Engineering, has been taken by over 9 million people worldwide. His Consecration of the Dhyanalinga — a yogic space at the Isha Yoga Centre near Coimbatore — is described by him as his life’s most significant work: a meditative space energised through specific yogic processes.

He has addressed the United Nations, World Economic Forum at Davos, the Oxford Union, and MIT, and launched the Save Soil movement in 2022 — a global initiative to address the crisis of degrading agricultural soil, which he connects directly to human survival and wellbeing. His ability to navigate between yogic interiority and urgent global challenges makes him a distinctive voice at the intersection of inner and outer transformation.