Hatha Yoga Programs

Isha Hatha Yoga is currently taught in different classes: Upa Yoga, Surya Kriya,  Angamardana,Yogasanas and Bhuta Shuddhi. These practices have been selected and designed by Sadhguru to develop mental clarity and focus, boost vigor and vitality, balance hormonal levels and take years off the body, bringing a sense of lightness and freedom.

Upa Yoga

Upa-Yoga essentially means “sub-yoga” or “pre-yoga”. Because of its many immediate and evident benefits, the word Upa Yoga in Indian languages is commonly used to denote “usefulness.”

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:

  • Relieving physical stress and tiredness

  • Exercising the joints and muscles

  • Rejuvenating the body after period of inactivity

  • Negating the effect of jet lag and long travel

“Upa-yoga is start-up yoga. It is best for casual practitioners seeking higher levels of physical and psychological wellbeing.” – Sadhguru”

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

  • Balances hormonal levels

  • Boosts vigor and vitality

  • Prepares one for deeper states of meditation

“Surya Kriya is a powerful process. You can do it just to cure your backache, or you can use it to transform yourself absolutely. It has that potential.” – Sadhguru”

Angamardhana

Angamardana is a system rooted in yoga that offers to everyone the opportunity to invigorate the body and to reach peak physical and mental health. “Angamardana” means gaining complete mastery over the limbs, organs and other parts of the body. This practice revitalizes the body on all levels including the muscles, blood circulation, skeletal structure, nervous system, and the basic energy system. It strengthens the spine, builds physical strength, fitness and tenacity, taking years off the body.

 

Designed by Sadhguru, Isha Angamardana needs no fitness equipment. It involves only the body and floor exercises that can be practiced anywhere, even during travel.

 

 

Benefits:

  • Develops mental clarity and focus

  • Remedies weak constitutions

  • Balances hormonal levels

  • Boosts vigor and vitality

  • Prepares one for deeper states of meditation

“Angamardana is a possibility to completely merge the body and the mind. Your body itself thinks, and more clearly than the mind.” – Sadhguru”

Yogasanas

The word asana literally means a posture. Out of the innumerable asanas a body can assume, 84 have been identified as Yogasanas, through which one can transform the body and mind into a possibility for ultimate well-being. By consciously forming the body into a certain posture, one creates a conducive passage for energy flow that can elevate one’s consciousness.

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

“Practicing asanas with the necessary dedication will transform your physiological, psychological, and energy structure, thus facilitating an energetic, creative, and blissful life.” – Sadhguru”

Bhutha Shuddhi

The basis for all creation, including the physical body, is the group of five elements: earth, water, wind, fire, and space. The wellbeing of the body and mind can be established by purifying these five elements within the human system. This process also shapes the body into a stepping stone towards one’s ultimate wellbeing.

Bhuta Shuddhi means “purification of the five elements” (i.e. earth, water, fire, air and space) which gets to root of imbalances in the body that lead to disease. This simple practice which you can do daily reorganizes your system on the elemental level.

The Bhuta Shuddhi processes offered by Isha provide a unique opportunity for everyone to benefit from this esoteric yogic science, which otherwise requires intense sadhana (spiritual practices).

 

 

Benefits:

  • Keeps the system in harmony and balance

  • Prepares the system to handle powerful states of energy

  • Creates the basis to gain mastery over the human system

“If the five elements are in your control, the whole life process – birth, living, and dying – is 100% in your control.” – Sadhguru”

Surya Shakthi

 

 

Benefits:

  • Increases physical strength & stamina

  • Realigns the musculo-skeletal system

  • Increases energy levels